Тематический план

  • 2nd week (5/3/2021)

    • Submit an annotation of 500 - 600 words on: 

      Gmelch, George. Baseball Magic. In: Spradley, J. P. - McCurdy, D. (eds.) 2012. Conformity and conflict: readings in cultural anthropology. 14th ed., p. 266 – 274.

  • 3rd week (12/3)

    • Submit an annotation (500 - 600 words) on:

      Dubisch, Jill. Run for the Wall: An American Pilgrimage. In: Spradley, J. P. - McCurdy, D. (eds.) 2012. Conformity and conflict: readings in cultural anthropology. 14th ed., p. 275 - 286.  

      As there are 8 annotations mandatory for this course, you can choose to skip this one. However, please try to have a look at the text anyway.

  • 4th week (19/3): Theoretical grounding

    • Please submit 500 words annotation on the ch. 14 Religion and Ritual, p. 209 - 226.

      The text should serve us as a broader theoretical grounding for the case studies which would follow from the next week onwards.

  • 5th week (26/3)

  • 6th week (2/4): No class (Holiday: Big Friday).

  • 7th week (9/4): Ritual as Social Glue. Ritual and social drama. Consolidation week. Sybmit delayed tasks in case you missed some and watch videos belows.

  • 8th week (16/4): Ethnographic case study. Ritual Negotiations in Lutherland

    • Submit an annotation on:

      Barry Stephenson. Ritual Negotiations in Lutherland. In: Husken, Ute – Neubert, Frank. 2011. Negotiating Rites. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press. p. 81 – 95.

      Read the full article including Endnotes.

      1) Introduce shortly the performances which Stephenson describes ethnographically.

      Focus on how Stephenson interprets his data with:

      1) efficacy - entertainment dyad

      2) the concept of social drama

      3) the concepts of Festivity, Carnival and Mimetic Play

      4) What is author's conclusion?

       

  • 9th week (23/4): Ethnographic case study of a liminal figure

    • Submit an annotation from:

      Seidlová, Veronika. 2013 „Singing One’s Way out of Marginality? The Musical-Religious Activities of a Female Hindu Ascetic in Rishikesh, India” in Jurková, Z., Stellmacher, M., Skořepová, Z., Kuhnová, K., Seidlová, V. 2013. Tóny z okrajů: Hudba a marginalita/Sounds from the Margins. Praha: Kher, pp. 130-144.

       E-book,also available free from: http://www.kher.cz/eknihy_nase.php

  • 10th week (30/4): Ethnographic case study of a production of possession in a multi-national corporation in Malaysia

    • Ong, Aihwa. The Production of Possession: Spirits and the Multinational Corporation in Malaysia. American Ethnologist, Vol. 15, No. 1, Medical Anthropology (Feb., 1988), pp. 28-42. (This text is also an item of the CESS reading list.)

  • 11th week (7/5): Select one text (ethnographic case study) from a variety of texts offered for this week, read and present it in a 10 min PPT presentation in the class. Friday 7/5 is the 1st term to present.

  • 12th week (14/5): PPT presentations, 2nd term

  • 13th week (21/5) PPT presentations, 3rd term