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1. " Sme na jedný lodi": Morálka a ekonomika v prostředí třídy nejchudších

Creator:
Vašát, Petr
Type:
article, model:article, and TEXT
Subject:
homelessness, the poorest class, economic practices, strategy of ambivalent moral, moral economy, poverty, marginalization, ethnography, and Czech Republic
Language:
Czech
Description:
The aim of the article is to critically reassess relation between moral and economy of agents from the poorest class. The relational concept of the poorest class designates here homeless, drug-users, and some poor individuals generally that all have common particular social practices on the one hand and a position within of the social space on the other hand.
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2. " Staging Encounters" through anthropological and pedagogical practices in urban Central Europe

Creator:
Červinková, Hana and Golden, Juliet
Type:
article, model:article, and TEXT
Subject:
ethnography, educational anthropology, participatory action research, pedagogy, memory, and urban laboratory
Language:
Czech
Description:
In this paper, we build on the ongoing disciplinary debate in cultural anthropology concerning changing understanding of contemporary ethnographic practice and consider our pedagogical work with students as a form of what Kim Fortun recently defined as "ethnographic experiment" for contemporary. We describe our methodology in which we are inspired especially by the tradition of educational anthropology and participatory action research to create spaces of collaborative encounters that we call urban laboratories.
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3. Česká antropologie - pokračovatelka české etnografie a etnologie - po sametové revoluci (1989). Urbánní a etnická studia jako osa oboru

Creator:
Soukupová, Blanka
Format:
bez média and svazek
Type:
model:article and TEXT
Subject:
anthropology, ethnography, ethnology, and urban and ethnic studies
Language:
Czech
Description:
The first part of the text addresses the development of ethnography, ethnology and anthropology, respectively, as fields of study, based on the change of the research paradigm. The second part is focused on two most progressive sub-fields of the contemporary anthropology: urban and ethnic anthropology, respectively. It analyses the development of these two fields after 1989, as well as the key areas of research, especially with regard to the change of the political and social system and climate. The aim of the study is to accentuate the confusion with regard to the use of the terms ethnography, ethnology and anthropology and the development continuity of the field. In addition, it aims to underline the social bias of this field of study, even after 1989. Present-day anthropology applies the holistic approach and has remained, to a great extent, part of history. However, it would seem that its comparative scope is its weakness.
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5. Etnografie jako výzkumný nástroj na počátku 21.století. Příspěvek k diskusi o etnologické metodologii v podmínkách České republiky

Creator:
Uherek, Zdeněk
Format:
bez média and svazek
Type:
model:article and TEXT
Subject:
ethnography, ethnology, social and cultural anthropology, Czech Republic, and methodology of social sciences
Language:
Czech
Description:
The contribution focuses on ethnography in the Czech lands and its application as a research method. The concept of ethnography used for this purpose sees ethnography as one of the major methods of qualitative research, transformed and modified by development in the field and changes in the society. The author reminds of the fact that ethnography was widely used as a research instrument already in 20th century under different names not only within ethnology and social anthropology but also within other disciplines and that at present it is a favourite research instrument of a number of branches of social science which emphasize qualitative research. Thus ethnography is not the sole property of ethnologists and social anthropologists and they cannot be sure that this method will remain typical and characteristic exclusively for them. Although the text is historically retrospective, it mainly focuses on transformations of ethnography in the late 20th and at the turn of 20th and 21st centuries.
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6. Etnografie ve studijních programech Slezské univerzity v Opavě

Creator:
Veselská, Jiřina
Format:
bez média and svazek
Type:
model:article and TEXT
Subject:
ethnography, museology, study program, Silesian University in Opava, and bachelor’s and master’s theses
Language:
Czech
Description:
The independent department of History and Museology of the Faculty of Arts and science of Silesian University in Opava was launched in academic year 1992-1993. However, the study of museology had already been implemented in 1990 at the department of Literary studies, Museology and Photography. Theoretical museology was based upon historical studies of material culture and the collection and protection of cultural and natural heritage. It was supplemented with topics from art history, ethnographical lectures and seminars became part of the syllabus; the first lecturer was PhDr. Jaroslav Štika, Csc. Mgr. Jiřina Veselská lectured between the years 1995-2008. She was replaced by PhDr. Věra Tomolová in 2008. Within the framework of their studies, students are requested to complete one ethnographical proseminar, two seminars and a compulsory course Introduction to Ethnography. They can also attend another optional course. Studies are focused on the clarification of terminology, history of discipline, methods of research, the documentation of traditional culture and the management, maintenance and presentation of ethnographical collections. The optional course, also attended by students enrolled on unrelated study programs, concentrates on the transformations of contemporary village life. High numbers of students that are attending particularly the optional courses show evidence of interest in the documentation of traditional culture and the preservation of material artefacts in museums. After passing ethnographical courses, many students have chosen ethnographical topics as subjects for their bachelor’s and master’s theses (e.g. documentation of the production of non-professional woodcarvers, traditional clothing deposited in museums, bibliographies, contemporary handicrafts, editions of sources, catalogues of collections). The list of these works concludes this essay. and Součástí článku je Seznam dosud obhájených prací věnovaných dokumentaci lidové kultury vypracovaný autorkou
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7. Formy transakčního sexu mezi muži v Praze (1999-2004)

Creator:
McCajor Hall, Timothy
Format:
print
Type:
model:internalpart and TEXT
Subject:
male prostitution, sex work, homosexual, ethnography, and Czech Republic
Language:
Czech
Description:
Since 1989, Prague has become a major destination for gay tourists and for sex tourists of all orientations from Western countries. To date, relatively little attention from policy or social theory perspectives has focused on males involved in sex work in Czech Republic. Based on the author's fieldwork in the gay community in Prague during 1999-2002 with follow-up visits in 2004-2006, this article looks at the experiences of young men (especially gay-identified men) involved in homosexual sex work in Prague, describes their relationship to the mainstream gay scenes in Prague in several phases since the mid-1990s, and discusses problems they face. Findings include the following: 1) Transactional sex exists on a continuum - ranging from one-time explicit exchanges of sex for money, through flirting for drinks, to longer-term relationships strongly motivated by financial considerations. 2) The latter types provide both a potential point of entry to sex work and a point of contact or plausible deniability on the gay mainstream. 3) Young men involved in various forms of sex work provide one of the major encounter points between Western tourists and native Czechs and Slovaks; this has been aggressively marketed in Western Europe and North America since the mid-1990s by por-nographers, both Czech and foreign. 4) Male sex work does not generally provide a long-term career in Czech Republic; many former sex workers appear to end up in jobs such as bartending or as tour guides, where they can use their language skills and customer service experience.
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8. Frajeři, rapeři a propadlíci: etnografie etnicity a etnizace v desegregované školní třídě

Creator:
Obrovská, Jana
Type:
article, model:article, and TEXT
Subject:
ethnicity, interaction rituals, ethnography, peer relations, intersections of identities, and school
Language:
Czech
Description:
This article focuses on the dynamics of ethnicity in the desegregated classroom. The author examines the role of ethnicity in peer culture and finds that it is usually mediated and intersects with other categories (gender, age) and social identities of students (e.g. the friend identity). She also seeks to determine in what contexts and what directions these intersections occur and what kind of integrative or exclusionary effects ethnicity has in the classroom. She argues that ethnicity primarily becomes visible during ritualised symbolic performances in which the significance of different identities is accentuated. Against the backdrop of an ethnographic description of the role of ethnicity in the classroom she analyses the position in the classroom of Roma students, whose distinctiveness can serve as a source of exclusion or a means for selfassertion. At the intersection of the low status that Roma students are given in their role as students and the high status in their role as friends, ethnicity and ethnicisations in the classroom are to be contradictory in their effects.
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10. Josef a Vladimír Úlehlovi - mezi pedagogikou, biologií a národopisem

Creator:
Zobačová, Andrea
Format:
bez média and svazek
Type:
model:article and TEXT
Subject:
education, biology, ethnography, religious studies, and tradition
Language:
Czech
Description:
J. Úlehla (1852-1933) - a teacher, headmaster of secondary schools and organizer of pedagogical life in Moravia, and his son V. Úlehla (1888-1947) - a biologist, musical folklorist and university professor, significantly influenced their fields of study, especially education, biology and ethnography. J. Úlehla promoted the use of folk verses, sayings, riddles and proverbs as well as frequent outdoor activities in the instruction of six- to eight-year-old children. Valuable ethnographical information on misery of Wallachian people, emigration to America and child labour is contained in Listy národopisné. Autobiographical information in the books by V. Úlehla Živá píseň and Duše lidu testify of author’s relation to Moravian Slovakia and its rich cultural tradition which inspired him to collect folk songs. He treated the collected information from the point of view of a biologist - e.g. when expressing his opinion of the age of folk songs. The aim of this essay is to answer the question: ‘how did teachers influence the lives of people and transformations of folk culture at the turn of the 19th and the 20th century?’. They helped to improve the quality of primary education, participated in clubs and societies; they took part in Národopisná výstava českoslovanská (Czechoslavic Ethnographical Exhibition), collected folk songs and engaged in local history research. At the same time, educational institutions (representing modern society) and the church came into conflict: the religious practices clashed with man’s freedom and his needs.
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