Předmět The Ethnography of Mesopotamia and its Bordering Regions (PAPVB_15)
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The aim of the lecture is to provide students of Near East archaeology with an ethnographic baseline for the core region, commonly called ‚Mesopotamia‘. The presentation stresses -at one time - the great diversity of natural and social landscapes in the area as well as such themes which are encountered throughout the entire realm.Focused on a comprehensive presentation, the lecture should serve two practical purposes:1. By this ‚rough guide‘ to the local cultures in between Euphrates and Tigris, the student should get a feel for which examples he may take for ethno-archaeological comparision, and which ones s/he should handle with caution, because they barely rest on formal similarities (but are ultimately linked to incompatible cultural ‚backgrounds‘).2. To perceive what are the matters-of-interest for communities s/he enters, and the persons s/he works and lives with on a daily basis, whilst performing as an excavator in the Near East.
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Syllabus:1. Outline of the subregion. Natural landscapes. Climate. Distribution of resources. Logistic constraints & opportunities. The cultural ambient of Mesopotamia in the Middle East2. An abrigded (modern) history of the Mesopotamian subregion.3. ‚By the river & beyond I‘ - Traditional subsistence strategies, technologies and material culture, according to the Mesopotamian ethnographic evidence.4. ‚By the river & beyond II‘ - Traditional subsistence strategies, technologies and material culture, according to the Mesopotamian ethnographic evidence.5. ‚By the river & beyond III‘ - Traditional subsistence strategies, technologies and material cultur,e according to the Mesopotamian ethnographic evidence.6. ‚Cain & Able?‘ - The longstanding interplay of sedentary living and nomadic existence – Roots, consequences.7. Gender, kinship and descent, class affiliation, ethnicity, according to the Mesopotamian ethnographic evidence.8. Land use, settlement patterns & traditional architecture I9. Land use, settlement patterns & traditional architecture II10. The actors of everyday life in potrait: ‚The Bedu‘-‚The Village Woman‘-‚The Handicraftsman‘-‚The Trader‘-‚The Rich Urbaner‘ etc. contextualized.11. Systems of belief to be found in between Euphrates and Tigris12. Facing the Globalized World: Issues relevant to the Mesopotamian region
Literatura
• Salamandra, Christa, A New Old Damascus – Authenticity and Distinction in Urban Syra, Indiana: University Press, 2004.• Encyclopedic Ethnography of Middle East and Central Asia, R. Khanam (ed.), 1st Ed., 3 Vols, New Delhi: Global Visison Publishing House, 2005.• Eickelman, Dale F., The Middle East: an Anthropological Approach, 3rd Ed., New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1998.Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village, New York: Anchor Books, 1995.• Lewis, Norman N., Nomads and Settlers in Syria and Jordan, 1800-1980 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.• Lindholm Charles, The New Middle Eastern Ethnography, Journal of the Royal Athnropological Institue 1 (4): 805-820.
Garant
prof. PhDr. Zdeněk Měřínský, CSc.
Vyučující
Dr. phil. Maximilian Wilding