Czech

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Previous experience with cultural and social anthropology is not necessary.

The following conditions are set for granting the credit:
1. Active participation in lessons (2 unexcused absences allowed) or submission of a task based on alternative assignments in agreement with the speakers.
2. Submission of completed task.
3. Final exam.

Teaching takes place in KTDU FaVU VUT classrooms in lessons determined by the schedule. Minimum participation is 85%. The substitution of missed lessons is made in agreement with the teacher in the form of alternative assignments.

The aim of the course is to provide students with a basic understanding of key concepts and theories of social and cultural anthropology. It will present it in the context of the wider evolution of European thought as an interdisciplinary field that has revolutionized the theory of social sciences and humanities and whose influence is continually increasing also in art. It will not be a traditional form of chronological presentation of the subject history, but a thematization of fundamental areas of anthropological thinking. The course will strengthen students' ability to work with academic texts and visual materials. Another goal is to clearly outline the methodology, its meaning and correlation with artistic research. Emphasis will be placed on understanding creative impulses stemming from critical anthropology, postcolonial thinking and applied forms of anthropology. The students are not meant to rigidly apply anthropological discourse, method and paradigm as binding postulates and to try to substitute the work of anthropologists. The course wants to point out the possibilities of interdisciplinary cooperation and creative inspiration on the borderline between science and art.
The course should help students to orientate themselves in the multi-layered environment of contemporary global art theory and practice pervaded by references to the sphere of anthropology. The course will enhance their ability of interdisciplinary thinking, reflection of academic texts, and broaden the horizon for inspiration in their own creative practice.

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