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  • Topic 1

    0. Introduction, syllabus
    1. How to learn the city: Definition of the city and urban settlement by Louis Wirth

    Literature:

    Louis Wirth, "Urbanism as a Way of Life." American Journal of Sociology, 44: 1-24

  • Topic 2

    2. Chicago School and Theory of Social Ecology.

    Lit.:

    Hannerz Ulf, Exploring the City. Columbia University Press 1980: 18 - 58.

    Robert Ezra Park, The City. Suggestions for Investigation of Human Behavior in the Urban Environment. New York 1916: 1 - 46.

  • Topic 3

    - Critique of the Burgess Concept

    - Late Chicago School

    - Chicago School and Anthropology: the concept of social transformation

    Literature:

    Hannerz Ulf, Exploring the City. Columbia University Press 1980.

    Redfield, R. The Primitive World and its Transformations. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 1953.

  • Topic 4

    3. Manchester School and Research in African Urban Environment - British Colonial City, Concepts of Detribalization, Disqualification, Modernity, Social Network Research, Situational Analysis.

     

    Literature

    Hannerz Ulf, Exploring the City. Columbia University Press, 1980.

    Epstein, AL Senes: Collected Copperbelt Papers. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1992.

  • Topic 5

    4. Manchester school II. Study of social conflicts, social networking theory, global social networks.

    Control questions:

    1. Name some of the innovative methodological tools used by the Manchester School in urban areas and write why.

    2. I forgot to draw your attention to one important methodological tool that the Manchester School used in research on ethnicity and conflict. It was modified by the Bogardus Scale of Social Distance. What is it and what is the scale used for?


    Literature:

    Hannerz U: Global Ecumene as a Network of Network. In: Conceptualizing Society / Edited by Adam Kuper, Routledge (1992).

  • Topic 6

    a) Social Institutions in the City

    b) Nordic Ethnology and Social Anthropology, Gothenburg School.

    Literature:


    Douglas Mary, Think Institutions. Syracuse University Press 1986.

    Ek, Sven B. Noden and Lund. Lund: Liber vörlag 1982.

  • Reading Week

  • Topic 7

    a) German approaches to the city, urban culture and nationalism, the concept of community and society, urban society as a tribal community metaphor, Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft, Baussinger's "third way", anthropology and mass media, German contemporaries.

    b) Urban sociology and anthropology in the Interwar in the Czech lands

     Literature:

     Bausinger, Hermann: Grundzüge der Volkskunde. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1978.

    Uherek Zdeněk: L'ethnologie urbaine en pays tchćques. Genèses.  Sciences sociales et histoire. Septembre 1997: 111 -  127.

    Uherek, Zdeněk: Antropologie města. In: Cichá Martina (ed.) Integrální antropologie. Praha: Triron 2014: 263 – 268.

  • Topic 8

    Urban research in Central and Eastern Europe: cultural and historical probes into the urban environment, urban sociology of the interwar period, urban and working-class research, Sallner ethnology of the city.

     Literature:

    Soukupová Blanka, Hroch Miroslav, Salner Peter, Godula-Weclawowict Róza (eds) Úvod do urbánní antropologie. Praha: FHS UK 2012.

    Salner Peter, Taká bola Bratislava. Bratislava 1991.

    Sirovátka Oldřich, Město pod Špilberkem. Brno 1993.

    Slova města. Cahiers du CEFRES No. 18. Praha, 2000.

  • Topic 9

    a)  Kevin Lynch and his The Image of the City. 

    b) Amsterdam urban anthropology, concept of city danger and exploration of mental maps ..

    Literature:

    Lynch, Kevin The Image of the City. MIT Press 1960-

    Brunt, Lodevijk. Coping with Urban Danger. In: Uherek, Z. (ed.) City in Supranational and Regional Networks. Praha, Institute of Ethnology 1992.

  • Topic 10

    Herbert J. Gans, Chicago schoolcritique

    Urban anthropology in Amsterdam: Lodevijk Brunt Coping with Urban Danger

    Dieteke van der Ree: Enquiries on social memory.

  • Topic 11

    French school, social anthropology in the city, the city as a plurality of environments with a different social climate, the concept of cultural construction of a foreigner, the theory of non-place (Michelle de la Pradelle, Marc Augé, Gérard Althabe).

    Literature:

    Pradelle, Michéle De La: Několik poznámek k urbánní antropologii. Český lid 83, 1996, s. 189–195.

    Cahiers du CEFRES no. 10. Antologie francouzských společenských věd – město. Praha, CEFRES 1996.

  • Topic 12

    a) As explored postmodern city - morphology and consciousness, redefinition center of peripheral relations, research of edge cities, suburban fringe zones, exurban areas and recombinat cities.

    b) The global city.


     

    Literature:

    Garreau Joel: Edge City: Life on the frontiers. New York, Doubleday 1991.

    Sassen Saskia: The Global City: Introducing a Concept. The Brown Journal of World Affairs XI.

    Contemporary trends in urban anthropology - discussion.

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