Dance Anthropology 2

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Code Completion Credits Range Language Instruction Semester
107AOFD2 exam 3 1 lecture hours (45 min) of instruction per week, 65 to 80 hours of self-study English summer

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Předmět zajišťuje Dance Department

Contents

Learning objective:

The aim of the course is to introduce students to the basic literature of cultural and social anthropology and lead them to understand the professional text; to introduce the process of formation of the discipline focused on the anthropological study of dance and to develop the ability to think anthropologically.

In the second semester, the content focuses on the development of anthropological disciplines in the 20th and 21st centuries and dance anthropology as a whole.

Thematic areas:

  1. structuralism - C. Lévi-Strauss, linguistic theories and semiotics - F. de Saussure
  2. Interpretive and poststructuralist anthropology - C. Geertz, cognitive approach to the study of dance
  3. Formation of the discipline of dance anthropology - history, theory, methodology
  4. The subject of study of dance anthropology, the concept of dance

Learning outcomes

Development of theoretical thinking skills, introduction to specific issues and approaches of cultural and social anthropology and their application to dance anthropology. Comprehension of text, critical reading.

Prerequisites and other requirements

none

Literature

Required reading:

BUCKLAND, Teresa J. (ed.) Dancing from Past to Present: Nation, Culture, Identities. Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2006. ISBN: 0-299-21854-6.

KAEPPLER, Adrienne L. a DUNIN, Elsie Ivancich, eds. Dance Structures. Perspectives on the Analysis of Human Movement. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2007. ISBN 978-9630585422.

YOUNGERMAN, Suzanne. Method and Theory in Dance Research: An Anthropological Approach. Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council 7, 1975, s. 116-133. ISSN 03166082.

BLACKING, John. Dance as Cultural System and Human Capability: An Anthropological Perspective. In: ADSHEAD-LANSDALE, Janet, ed. Dance, a multicultural perspective. Report of the Third Study of Dance Conference, University of Surrey April 5-9 1984. Guildford: National Resource Centre for Dance, 1984. s. 4-21. ISBN 978-0946483402.

GIURCHESCU, Anca. The Power of Dance and Its Social and Political Uses. Yearbook for Traditional Music 33, 2001, s. 109-121. ISSN 0740-1558.

HANNA, Judith Lynne. Movements Toward Understanding Humans Through the Anthropological Study of Dance. Current Anthropology 20, 1979, č. 2, s. 313-339. ISSN 0011-3204.

KAEPPLER, Adrienne L. Dance in Anthropological Perspective. Annual Review of Anthropology 7, 1978, s. 31-49. ISSN 0084-6570.

THOMAS, Helene, ed. Dance, Gender and Culture. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1993. ISBN 978-0-333-63759-3.

DUNIN, Elsie Ivancich; STAVĚLOVÁ, Daniela a GREMLICOVÁ, Dorota, eds. Dance, Gender and Meanings. Contemporizing Traditional Dance. Praha: Etnologický ústav Akademie věd ČR, Nakladatelství Akademie múzických umění v Praze, 2012. ISBN 978-80-7331-236-7.

BUCKLAND, Theresa J., ed. Dance in the Field. Theory, Methods, and Issues in Dance Ethnography. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999. ISBN 978-0312223786.

Recommended reading:

GRAU, Andrée a WIERRE-GORE, Georgiana. Anthropologie de la danse. Genèse et construction d´une discipline. Paříž: Centre national de la danse, 2006. ISBN 978-2914124287.

STAVĚLOVÁ, Daniela. K některým otázkám etnochoreologického studia: tanec, gender a politika. Národopisná revue 20, 2010, č. 4, s. 239-243. ISSN 0862-8351.

Evaluation methods and criteria

Examination - oral form, verification of understanding of the material and the assigned literature

Attendance in class at least 75%.

Further information

No schedule has been prepared for this course

The subject is a part of the following study plans