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Baby sleep in the grip of normality
Medvecová Tinková, Lenka ; Klepal, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Wolfová, Alžběta (referee)
1 ABSTRACT Child sleep is subject to research of many nature and social sciences. Efforts to limit it into statistical charts and generalise its nature for entire population of children, while labelling it as normal, is mostly seen in medical discourse. Normal child sleep, as a healthy and reasonable feature, has occurred in my research work, as well. What is normal in child's sleep then? Where ends the normal sleep and starts the child sleep deprivation? Why should anthropology deal with child sleep at all? These are the questions I have been asking for quite some time in my research work. My research started in Great Britain and has slowly grown into an ethnographic study of hundreds of households in Czech Republic. I observed how the sleep is being formed in families, in our values, reflecting approach to a child, as well as in the medical and sociological discourse and vice versa, how the sleep changes those discourses and how it forms the biology itself, (regular/pathological sleep patterns) and society (good/bad child, bad/good parent). In my thesis I describe, how the sleep modifies and constructs in context of local biology. I claim that because of the different influences across the world it is important to open a discussion in medical and sociological discourse about fluid sleep schedules of the...
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Social bodies within queer enterprise
Sagačová, Markéta ; Heřmanský, Martin (advisor) ; Wolfová, Alžběta (referee)
The thesis strives for the anthropological interpretation of the body within queer enterprise. It tries to capture, interpret and understand the processes that form human bodies in this enterprise, in this thesis called Osvěžovna. Osvěžovna can be considered a certain social field within the queer habit is manifested; and as it truned out some sort of "friendly" habit too. With regard to the research landscape and research questions, the main research method is qualitative - participant observation. The main theoretical concept is the division of the cultural dimension of the human body into three structural levels according to Soukup and Balcer. This structure affects the division of thesis itself, which gradually deals with the techniques of the use of the human body and the ways in which the human body in Osvěžovna is modified; the way the human body is disciplined there; and what cultural significance can be found in Osvěžovna. This division is supplemented by the level of consumption. In conclusion are these findings summarized and there is also confirmation that these structural levels of the human body are very often intertwined. That points the integrity of the body culture system in Osvěžovna. Key words body; queer; anthropology; discipline; habitus
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"To cure is no challenge, the goal is to understand." Ethnographic study of Ayurveda
Wolfová, Alžběta ; Novotná, Hedvika (advisor) ; Spalová, Barbora (referee)
My diploma thesis mainly deals with monitoring Ayurveda and description of this phenomena in specific situations and contexts. Ayurveda is understood as an entity based on the actor network theory and the symmetrical anthropology which has been constructed in a process of mutual relationships of actors alleging of various natures (material, social, discursive). The main focus is on the ways of setting and redefining of boundaries of Ayurveda as such which have been realized through identification of significant parts related to this process. It was decided to define the key actors as the Teacher, the Doctrine, the Ayurveda Institution, approaches to human body by alimentation, yoga and breath exercise and Ayurvedic medicines. Each chapter is dedicated to both elements and practices influencing these key actors and different ways of their realization. Ayurveda in its entirety is intervened by members of the community, canonical Ayurvedic texts, biomedicine, national and EUs legislative, climate, politics of Institution, individual daily routines and collective scope of interpretation. 1
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