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New media in school
Trubanová, Natália ; Bittnerová, Dana (advisor) ; Zandlová, Markéta (referee)
The "New Media at School" diploma thesis focuses on the presence of new media at school and on the meanings and practices associated with it. Based on participatory observation in Prague high school, semi-structured interviews and Internet resources analysis, it tries to understand how new media are involved in shaping the space and organization of the school, its teaching and learning organization. It focuses on how the school seeks to cope with the arrival of these expensive facilities for which it is responsible.It alsonotices how the school seeks to cope with the penetration of the different spaces that the new media bring into its hitherto closed environment. At the same time, it points to ways in which the school itself crosses its borders, the time-space of disciplination. Finally, it monitors the impact of new media on relationships within the school, between teachers and pupils, but also within the peer group. Through these meanings and practices, it points to the dilemmas that the emergence of new media has brought to the school environment, and analyzes how new media allows pupils to face this disciplination pressure in the school, and vice versa, in what moments new media themselves take disciplination into their own hands. The new media is not perceived as passive tools, but as actors...
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Material culture of residencies of the Krakovský z Kolovrat family between 1750 and 1850
FIŠEROVÁ, Anna
The presented thesis deals with material culture of residencies of the Krakovský z Kolovrat family (Kolowrat-Krakowsky) between 1750 and 1850. Its goal is to describe inner space and material equipment of a few castle buildings which were owned by the Brezno branch of Krakovský z Kolovrat family in the given time. The author used a number of preserved inventories and bills from the second half of 18th and first half of 19th century. She tried to identify a purpose of particular buildings and their role in a resident network of the Krakovský z Kolovrat family. The thesis analyses changing fashion trends in the field of furniture, dining and lifestyle. A subject of interest is not only description of particular spaces but also a symbolic meaning of decoration and objects of everyday and non-everyday need which had surrounded privileged individuals in their residencies. Based on that the author aims to penetrate a thought world of noblemen and outline their value charts.
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Archeology of medieval monasteries in southern Bohemia
MÜLLER, Jiří
This thesis deals with the archaeological research of medieval monasteries. Area of interest is formed by the boundaries of present-day south bohemia region. The main aim of this work is creation of an overview about the archaeological sites and interpreting such artefacts that reflect the specifics of everyday life in monastery environment. The introductory chapter sets questions and goals of the work, and is followed by a section dealing with religious orders operating in the target area in the Middle Ages. The two following chapters focus on historical text and architectural development of individual sites. Other part analyses the troubles related to archaeological research of monasteries. Following passage brings the division of material culture based on archaeological finds. Finally, the material culture of individual categories is divided into smaller sub-groups that are based on their function and method of use. And the conclusion of the work evaluates the results of the analysis.
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Everyday life of the medieval farmstead. Evidence of the material culture in Central Europe.
Hylmarová, Lucie ; Klír, Tomáš (advisor) ; Krajíc, Rudolf (referee)
Název: Everyday life of the medieval farmstead. Evidence of the material culture in Central Europe. Master 's thesis deals with a summary of knowledge about material culture of deserted high- and late-medieval villages in the Czech Republic and assessing their interpretive possibilities for understanding the everyday life of the medieval farmstead. Attention is focused on the metallic component of the material culture. Basis of the thesis consists of the summary and critical evaluation of archaeological objects discovered during researches of deserted medieval villages, especially since the second half of the 20th century until today (Pfaffenschlag, Konůvky, Bystřec, Mstěnice, Svídna, Potálov, Kravín and Spindelbach). Part of the work is an analysis of finding and spatial context at the discussed archaeological sites. The findings are in the end compared with the selected foreign deserted medieval village (Hard in Lower Austria). This thesis evaluates how a study of the material culture contributes to economic issues and the socio-economic structures of a medieval village. Keywords deserted medieval village - farmstead - everyday life - material culture - metal artifacts - middle ages - Bohemia and Moravia - Austria
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Comodification of Childhood
Bystřická, Ivana ; Ezzeddine, Petra (advisor) ; Bittnerová, Dana (referee)
This essay concerns with ways in which is childhood in the relatively small and isolated village commodificated. The research focuses on the way how do local women during pregnancy and in the period after the birth make a layette for their infants. It explores which objects or attitudes are for these women during making the layette important and how these things later enter the interaction of local inhabitans. It shows, that objects socially work mainly on three degrees: during negotiating of own social status, dignity and during the manifestation of love, in the sense of care and concern. Objects are not only the way how to confirm or improve one's social position, but it is also a public manifestation of love. The essay later explores ways, how these factors work in a social life of the village and also the role, which objects play in this proces.
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Jewish identity: formation and deformation. Ethnography of Moishe House Prague.
Adlerová, Nina ; Novotná, Hedvika (advisor) ; Abu Ghosh, Yasar (referee)
This thesis is based on a long-term field research in the Prague Jewish community in which I am trying to express the Jewish identity of young Czech Jews. The aim is to characterize the formation and construction of Jewish identities, their coexistence with other types of social identities and the role of material elements in this process. The formation has a processional nature and there are continual transformations and negotiations of concrete forms of Jewish identities over time. These identities are publicly manifested through various material elements and by this manifestation those identities are also strengthened. I also examine the impact of physical structures and other objects on the Jewish community, how they strengthen its cohesion and on the role that they play in materializing and bringing the collective memories into the present. I simultaneously work with the concept of materiality in the context of the Moishe House Prague project. I examine the position of techno-social tools and the power of leadership. This thesis is based on several theoretical perspectives that I connect and combine in order for me to explore social reality and Jewishness in their entirety. Key words Identity, Jewish identity, material culture, materiality, Moishe House, formation, construct, negotiation...
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Combs in the Middle Age: archaeological-cultural-historical study
Mezuliáníková, Anna ; Štefan, Ivo (advisor) ; Profantová, Naděžda (referee)
(in English) Combs are used as toilet objects for adjustment of hair and beard, or as a decoration of hairstyle all over the world. Combs have also a number of symbolical and magical significances. The aim of this work is a comprehensive view on combs as a one part of medieval material culture. The first part deals with the manufacture of medieval combs, particularly materials used for comb making, manufacturing processes, decoration, the degree of specialization of bone and antler objects manufacturing and manufactures in which bone and antler objects were produced. The second part is applied to the function of combs, evolution of hairstyles in the Middle Ages, symbolical significance and the associated magical significances of human hair and beard and different rituals connected with their cutting and combing. The core of this thesis is analysis, synthesis and interpretation of selected finds of medieval combs from what now is the territory of the Czech Republic. The aim of the analysis, synthesis and interpretation is the comparison of morphology and decoration of combs from different periods of Middle Ages. Chapters, which are devoted to chronology, morphology and typology of medieval combs and social-representational aspects of using combs are largery based on this part.
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