Poslední úprava: David Verbuč, M.A., Ph.D. (16.11.2023)
There is a list of all compulsory literature for CESS exam (for Parts 1 and 2). However, students choose only three disciplines out of four for Part 1 and only one discipline for Part 3 (list on Moodle). All literature is available in Moodle: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=10868.
* 1. Mandatory literature (Part 1):
* 1.1. Sociocultural Anthropology (old version)
ERIKSEN, T. H.: A Brief History of Anthropology. In: Small Places, Large Issues: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology. 2nd. ed. London: Pluto Press, 2001. pp 9-23.
RAPPORT, N. & OVERING, J.: Culture. In: Social and cultural anthropology: the key concepts. London: Routledge, 2002. pp 92-102.
MALINOWSKI, B.: Method and Scope of Anthropological Fieldwork. In: ROBBEN, A. C. G. M., & SLUKA, J. A. (Eds.): Ethnographic fieldwork: an anthropological reader. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub (Blackwell anthologies in social & cultural anthropology), 2007. pp 46-57.
HANNERZ, U.: Field Worries: Studying Down, Up, Sideways, Through, Backward, Forward, Early or Later Away and at Home. In Anthropology’s world: life in a twenty-first century. London a New York: Pluto Press a Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. pp 59-86.
TURNER, V. W.: Liminality and Communitas. In: The Ritual Process. Structure and Anti- Structure. New York: Cornell University Press, 2007. pp 94-130.
GEERTZ, C.: Thick Description: Towards an Interpretive Theory of Culture. In: WELSCH, R. & ENDICOTT, K. (Eds.): Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Anthropology. Dubuque, Iowa: Dushkin/McGraw- Hill, 2003. pp 14-23.
SLOCUM, S.: Woman the Gatherer: Male Bias in Anthropology. In: ERIKSON, P. A., & LIAM D. M., (Eds.): Readings for a History of Anthropological Theory. 4th ed. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013.
SAID, E. W.: Knowing the Oriental. In: ERIKSON, P. A., & LIAM D. M. (Eds.): Readings for a History of Anthropological Theory. 4th ed. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013. pp 324-335.
CLIFFORD, J.: Introduction: Partial Truths. In: CLIFFORD, J. & MARCUS, G. E. (Eds.): Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography, Berkley: University of California Press, 1986. pp 1-26.
WOLF, E. R: Introduction [Europe and the People Without History]. In: ERIKSON, P. A., & LIAM D. M.(Eds.): Readings for a History of Anthropological Theory. 4th ed. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013. pp 377-392. APPADURAI, A.: “Disjuncture and Difference.” In: ERIKSON, P. A., & LIAM D. M. (Eds.): Readings for a History of Anthropological Theory. 4th ed. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013. pp 511-518.
* 1.1. Sociocultural Anthropology (new version)
MALINOWSKI, B.: Method and Scope of Anthropological Fieldwork. In: ROBBEN, A. C. G. M., & SLUKA, J. A. (Eds.): Ethnographic fieldwork: an anthropological reader. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub (Blackwell anthologies in social & cultural anthropology), 2007. pp 46-57.
HANNERZ, U.: Field Worries: Studying Down, Up, Sideways, Through, Backward, Forward, Early or Later Away and at Home. In Anthropology’s world: life in a twenty-first century. London a New York: Pluto Press a Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. pp 59-86.
TURNER, V. W.: Liminality and Communitas. In: The Ritual Process. Structure and Anti- Structure. New York: Cornell University Press, 2007. pp 94-130.
GEERTZ, C.: Thick Description: Towards an Interpretive Theory of Culture. In: WELSCH, R. & ENDICOTT, K. (Eds.): Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Anthropology. Dubuque, Iowa: Dushkin/McGraw- Hill, 2003. pp 14-23.
SLOCUM, S.: Woman the Gatherer: Male Bias in Anthropology. In: ERIKSON, P. A., & LIAM D. M., (Eds.): Readings for a History of Anthropological Theory. 4th ed. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013.
SAID, E. W.: Knowing the Oriental. In: ERIKSON, P. A., & LIAM D. M. (Eds.): Readings for a History of Anthropological Theory. 4th ed. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013. pp 324-335.
ORTIZ, Fernando. “On the Social Phenomenon of “Transculturation” and Its Importance in Cuba.” In: Anthropological Theory for the 21st Century, edited by A. Lynn BOLLES, et al). [1940] 2022. pp. 94–96.
APPADURAI, A.: “Disjuncture and Difference.” In: ERIKSON, P. A., & LIAM D. M. (Eds.): Readings for a History of Anthropological Theory. 4th ed. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013. pp 511-518.
Margaret Mead’s Samoan adolescence study controversy:
HOLMES, Lowell D., and Ellen Rhoads Holmes. 1992. “Samoan Character and the Academic World” (from Samoan Village: Then and Now), 80–87.
FREEMAN, Derek. 1983. “Margaret Mead and Samoa.” (from Margaret Mead and Samoa: The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth), 70–79.
(both sources reprinted in/taken from Welsch, Robert, and Kirk Endicott, ed. 2003. Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Anthropology. Guilford: Dushkin/McGraw-Hill.)
Further (optional) reading: for further argumentation (especially regarding Freeman’s interviews with Fa’apua’a), see “The Trashing of Margaret Mead: How Derek Freeman Fooled us all on an Alleged Hoax,” excerpt from Paul Shankman’s book www.unl.edu/rhames/courses/current/readings/Shankman-Trashing%20of%20Margaret%20Mead.pdf
TSING, Anna. 2000. “The Global Situation.” Cultural Anthropology 15(3): 327–360.
* 1.2. Sociology
FULCHER, J. - SCOTT, J.: What is Sociology? In: Sociology. 4th ed. Oxford: Oxford University, 2011. pp 3-18. FULCHER, J. - SCOTT, J.: Theories and Theorizing. In: Sociology. 4th ed. Oxford: Oxford University, 2011. pp 20-68.
FULCHER, J. - SCOTT, J.: Socialization, Identity and Interaction. In: Sociology. 4th ed. Oxford: Oxford University, 2011. pp 111-148.
BAUMAN, Z. - MAY, T.: Decisions and Actions: Power, Choice and Moral Duty. In: Thinking Sociologically. 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 2001. pp 59-78.
BOTTERO, W.: Founding ideas. In Stratification: Social division and inequality. London: Routledge, 2005. pp 33-51.
* 1.3. Psychology
PENNINGTON, D. GILLEN, K., HILL, P.: Social Psychogy. Ch. Social Influence, London: Arnold, 1999. pp 244- 277.
PENNINGTON, D. GILLEN, K., HILL, P.: Social Psychogy. Ch. Pro-social and anti-social Behaviour, London: Arnold, 1999. pp 279-308.
WHITNEY, P.: Psychology of Language. Ch. The nature of Language. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1998. pp 2-31.
WHITNEY, P.: Psychology of Language. Ch. Language acquisition: Biological Foundations, Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1998. pp 302-333.
NUTTIN, J.: Motivation, Planning, and Actions. New Jersey: Leuven University Press. Ch. 5, 1984. pp 134-195.
* 1.4. Economics
DIXIT, A., and SKEATH, S.: Games of Strategy. 2nd ed. New York: W.W. Norton & Co. Ch. 1 & 2. 2004. pp 3-42. MANKIW, N. G.: Macroeconomics. 7th ed. Harvard University: Worth Publishers. Ch. 3 & 4. 2010. pp 45-115. VARIAN, H. R.: Intermediate Microeconomics. 8th ed. New York: W.W. Norton & Co. Ch. 1, 2 & 3. 2010. pp 1-53.
* 2. Mandatory literature (Part 2):
PUNCH, K.: Introduction to social research: quantitative and qualitative approaches. 2nd or 3rd ed. London: SAGE. 2005.
* 3. Mandatory literature (Part 3): list of literature for Part 3 exam, separate for each discipline, together with all pdf readings, is posted on Moodle.