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Introduction to Anthropology - Cultural Epochs (European Way of Thinking) 1

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204ZAN1 Z 1 2/T Czech
Tutor:
Vladimír MIKEŠ
Synopsis:

Historical (vertical) approach as well as an anthropological (horizontal) approach.

Biological pre-requisites of culture. The person on stage.

Prerequisites:

1. Knowledge of the main theatre plays from individual epochs.

2. Basic historical facts.

3. Reflections on your own relationship with the world.

Study Objectives:

1. Familiarisation with the basic concepts of cultural, philosophical and theatre anthropology.

2. Biological pre-requisites for culture.

3. Social anthropology and the person on the stage.

4. Analysis of theatre theories and practices, especially 20th Century.

5. Message systems.

Outline and Syllabus:

Curriculum:

1. From Classical times to the present.

2. From „the body in history“ to its presentation and interpretation in various works.

3. Systems of messages:

a) interaction (word, gesture, face, view, voice, writing)

b) association;

c) territory;

d) food;

e) bi-sexuality;

f) topicality;

g) entertainment;

h) defence.

4. Anthropological perspectives to theatre, future of ritual.

5. Concept of mimesis and catharsis.

Syllabus:

How each epoch understood itself and how we understand or don?t understand it from our perspectiv. We also take account of the problem of non-European cultures (the Muslim problem) or their attraction for Europe (india, Japan - Brook,

Schechner, Barba etc.). Reflections on from what folk and ethnic theatre roots (featuring on the stage) it arises. The aim is to combine elements of the theory of drama and sociology with an anthropological view of the ?technology of the body?. A vertical (historical)view is entwined with a horizontal view with systems of messages from everyday life and their transformations through the epochs.

Study materials:

1. History of theatre in different epochs.

2. Ruth Benedictová, Kulturní vzorce

3. Robert F. Murphy, Úvod do kulturní a sociální antropologie

4. Marc Augé, Antropologie současných světů

5. Jan Patočka, Evropa a doba poevropská

6. J. Le Goff, Středověká imaginace

7. Wylie Sypher, Od renesance k baroku

8. Alžbětínské divadlo (Odeon)

9. Vladimír Mikeš, Divadlo španělského zlatého věku

10. Vladimír Mikeš, Divadlo francouzského baroka

11. Divadlo v člověku, člověk v divadle (Antropologický sborník JAMU 1997)

Note:
Further information:
This course is an elective for all students of this school
Schedule for winter semester 2009/2010:
06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
Tue
místnost R210
Učebna
(Karlova 26, Praha 1)
MIKEŠ V.
14:00–15:30
(paralelka 1)
Fri
Thu
Fri
Schedule for summer semester 2009/2010:
The schedule has not yet been prepared
The subject is a part of the following study plans:
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