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Historiography and Ethnography of the Region

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 541-0308/03
Abbreviation HER
Course title Historiography and Ethnography of the Region
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Geological Engineering
Course coordinator Mgr. Věra Vahalíková

Subject syllabus

1. Definition of the subject of ethnographic research.
2. Differences in the meaning and historical sequence of the use of the names ethnography, ethnology, cultural and social anthropology in the Czech Republic and abroad.
3. The structure of ethnography and its specific methodology.
4. Introduction to historiography, its relation to history and regional historiography.
5. The most frequent concepts in the ethnography of the human nation, ethnic group, race from the point of view of various world schools and directions applied in the field, for example migration, comparatist, functionalist.
6. Historiography of the Middle Ages up to the beginnings of scientific historiography in the Enlightenment period.
7. General ethnography focusing on the racial, linguistic and religious differentiation of humanity.
8. Ethnographic regions in northern Bohemia, their folk culture, history, important heritage-protected buildings and interesting natural locations. The special position of the capital city of Prague.
9. The spiritual culture of the people, popular religious ideas, religion, magic and cult, taking into account their existence in the life of today's man.
10. Material culture of the people, employment, craft and agriculture.
11. Folklore and folkloristics, dance, singing, music, folk literature and folk theater.
12. Ethnographic regions in northern Moravia, their folk culture, history and historiography, important heritage-protected objects and interesting natural locations.
13. Orientation in literature with ethnographic and historiographic issues, from the bibliographic catalog of the Czech Republic to regional productions of local history.

Literature

OTGAAR, A. H. J.; VAN DEN BERG, L.; BERGER, CH.; FENG, R. X. (2010): Industrial Tourism: Opportunities for City and Enterprise. EURICUR Series: European Institute for Comparative Urban Research, ISBN: 978-1409402206 .

Advised literature

OEVERMANN, H., MIEG, H. A. (ed.) (2014): Industrial Heritage Sites in Transformation: Clash of Discourses. London, New York: Routledge, ISBN: 978-0415745284 .