Předmět The Quotidian from the Perspective of Historical Social Sciences (YMH513)

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Quotidian from the Perspective of Social Historical SciencesCourse overview: In short, this course examines everyday life through various theoretical approaches, mainly through the perspective of social historical sciences. There are many different kinds of theories of everyday life. This topic incorporates major themes, for example the everyday context of symbolic interaction and dramaturgy, places, non-verbal communication, fashion, consumption, things and lifestyles. We will also study how social identities are formed and maintained. With the help of some great authors we will begin to study the form and content ‘everydayness’. Substantive topics may include:1/ Introduction.Everyday life in a interdisciplinary context. From macro- to microhistory. Anthropology of experience.Scan book: Victor Turner: From Ritual to Theatre. The Human Seriousness of Play. New York: PAJ Publications 1982.On the web: George Iggers: From Macro- to Microhistory: The History of Everyday Life. In: Historiography of the 20th Century (1997).2/ Tuning terms: everyday life, practices, habitus (Bourdieu), lifeworld and realms of experience (Schutz), presentation of self (Goffman), critical study of quotidian routines, rules, spaces and objects.… sense of situation (French philosophy).Ben Highmore: Everyday Life and Cultural Theory: An Introduction. London: Routledge 2002.Scan chapter of book by Mike Featherstone: Undoing Culture. Globalization, Postmodernism and Identity. London: Sage 2000. Chapter 4 "The Heroic Life and Everyday Life", pp. 54-73.     3/ Practices. Tactics. "Making Do": talking, reading, dweling, cooking, walking in the City…Michel de Certeau: The Practice of Everyday Life. Univ. of California Press 1984: "´Making Do´: Uses and Tactics" (pp. 29 - 44). Spatial Practices; Uses of Language,; Ways of Believing.See scan on the Web via Google /pdf/: Michel de Certeau: Chapter 11: "Walking in the City".Further reading on the Web - Nigel Trift: Driving in the City (19 pp.).Other spatial practices - Marc Augé: Non-places. Introduction to an Antropology of Supermodernity. London - New York: Verso 2002. Augé introduces new concepts for places and non-places as symptoms for a shift from modernity to supermodernity.  4/ Phenomenology of Place. Can a Place Think?On the web: /PDF/ Heideggers Hut. (First published by Adam Sharr in 2006.) Contribution to material culture, too. Bilding Dwelling Thinking. A moutain walk.E-book: Adam Sharr: Heidegger for Architects (2007).Presentatition of domestic space in modern culture.5/ Symbolic interactionism. Frames of experience.   The social world is constructed through face to face interaction and a shared system of symbols. Erving Goffman (Frame analysis) and Harold Garfinkel (Studies in Ethnomethodology)6/ Non-verbal communication.Gestures; proxemics, kinesics and haptic in communication. See for example Desmond Morris (Bodytalk and so, etc.). Etiquette. Clothing as a mode of non-verbal communication.Image and photogenic. Image of face.Gaze. Evil eye as a universal superstition. Alan Dundes (ed.): The Evil Eye: a Casebook. New Yrok and London 1981.7/ Fashion as a sign and communication. Contemporary theories, analysis of clothing and fashion. Fashion Classics provides an interpretative overview. The estetic of daily life. Costume Jewelry. Fashion accessories: hand fan, parasol and umbrella, cravat,  shawl… See the journal Phylakterion.Encyclopedia on the web: The Berg Companion to Fashion. Oxford-New York: Berg 2005.See on the Web: "Research Approaches to the Study of Dress and Clothing"; "What is Fashion Studies". E-artical Rebecca H. Holman: Clothing as Communication: An Empirical Investigation.Other reading - Roland Barthes: The Fashion system. Georg Simmel: Fashion.Bogatyrev´s Contribution to the Analysis of Dress (Carol Elaine Hendrikson).Referential book of Peter Bogatyrev: The Function of Folk Costum in Moravian Slavakia. Hague: Mouton 1971. (I will scan for you.) Very important for analysis of ethnic or local dress (example - Scottish national costum, Amish dress etc.). The Bogatyrev´s text is good starting point for  understanding of sign function of clothes.Something to read: Eric Hobsbawm: The Invention Tradition.Futher bibliography: Michael Carter: Fashion Classics. From Carlyle to Barthes. Dress, Body, Culture. Oxford - New York: Berg 2003.    8/ Consumption.Consumption as everyday act. Commodification of experirience. Logo or no logo?  Mcdonaldization of Society (George Ritzer).Scan books: Mark Peterson: Consumption and Everyday Life. London - New York: Routledge 2009. Paul Fieldhaus: Food and Nutrition. Costums and Culture. London 1996.9/ Things Theory. Interdisciplinarity in study "thingness" and materiality. Gift and commodity, art and artifact. Technigues an technologies. Design anthropology. Marcel Mauss: The Gift. New York: W.W. Norton 1990.10/ Lifestyle of marginal groups and subcultures.Expressions of identity. Stylistic effects (see Fashion as sign). Practices and tactics of daily life - space, performance and politics. The bricolage through which identities are constituted. Neo-tribes behaviour, totemic symbolism. Tatoos as a part of subcultural style.Tuning the term: 1/ Bricolage (Claude Lévi-Strauss). The Cult of Amateur (Andrew Keen);2/ Liminality - according to Victor Turner (The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-structure). General liminality.See also books: Kevin Hetherington: Expressions of Identity: Space, Performance and Politics. London: Sage 1998. (Brief passage on the Web.)Dick Hebdige: Subculture. The Meaning of Style. London - New York: Routledge 1979. (Also available as a e-book on the Web.) Top ten books for social sciences and humanities:Fiona Bowie: Anthropology of religion. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing 2005.

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Course Requirements:1. A final paper or essay (about 7 pages long) which can be theoretically and empirically oriented. The paper may analyse aspects of ‘everydayness’ on macro and micro-levels of behaviour (interactions, performance, trends to stigmatization, signs, fashion…). There are many possibilities for topics and students may choose their own topic.2. At least once throughout the semester each student will make a 10 -15 minute presentation of the week’s reading and lead a discussion in the Aquarium room.  The aim of this lecture series is to explain the function of games, sports and other leisure activities in human culture and society.

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doc. PhDr. Bohuslav Šalanda, CSc.