Anthropological and Psychological Fundamentals of Work 2

Subject guarantor:

Vladimír MIKEŠ

Name of lecturer(s):

Vladimír MIKEŠ

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

Introduction to the basic concepts of cultural, philosophical and theatre anthropolgy in relation to the cultural era.

Mode of study:

Lecture and text analyses

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

1. Knowledge of the pivotal works of individual periods.

2. Basic historical facts.

3. Ability to reflect on one's relationship to the world.

Recommended optional programme components:

Reading

Course contents:

1. Biological and social conditions of culture with the consideration of theatre theory and practice.

2. From antiquity to the present

3. From "the body in history to its presentation and interpretation in works.

4. Mission systems:

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

b) association

c) territory

d) food

e) bisexuality

f) timing

g) entertainment

h) protection

5. Anthropological perspectives of theatre, the future of ritual

Recommended or required reading:

Augé, Marc, Antropologie současných světů, Praha 1999

Benedictová, Ruth, Kulturní vzorce, Praha 1999

Brockett, Oscar G., Dějiny divadla, Praha 1999

Le Goff, Jacques, Středověká imaginace, Praha 1998

Mikeš, Vladimír, Divadlo španělského zlatého věku, Praha 2001

Mikeš, Vladimír, Divadlo francouzského baroka, Praha 1995

Murphy, Robert F., Úvod do kulturní a sociální antropologie, Praha 1999

Patočka, Jan, Evropa a doba poevropská, Praha 1980

Sypher, Wylie, Od renesance k baroku, Praha 1971

Alžbětínské divadlo, Praha Odeon, 1985

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

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Lectures and review

Assessment methods and criteria:

Class participation.

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Schedule for winter semester 2012/2013:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2012/2013:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Teorie a kritika (Mgr.) (compulsory subject)