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The Conception of Time in Maya Cosmology
Boďová, Veronika ; Halbich, Marek (advisor) ; Heřmanský, Martin (referee)
Maya were one of the great civilizations of the Middle America. They lived in the regions of Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, and Honduras. Mayan history reaches back some 4,000 years to what is called the Pre-classic period, when civilization first began in Central America. However, it was during what came to be known as the Classic period (AD 250 to 900) that Mayan culture reached its peak and the Maya achieved their celebrated advances in architecture, mathematics, agriculture, astronomy, art, and other areas. What is my main interest in my work is the conception of time of this great civilization. In 19th century, the study of Maya science and religion has progressed by leaps and bounds. Archaeologists continued to uncover ancient ruins and excavated thousands of carved monuments, jade artifacts, rich burial tombs, painted ceramic vases, and examples of the hieroglyphic writing invented by the Maya. Scholars made enormous progress deciphering the Maya script. Specialists can now read almost all of these hieroglyphs, which reveal detailed histories for each Maya kingdom. In addition, scholars found and deciphered sacred texts that described events that occured during the world's creation and successive recreations. Maya creation myth describes those astronomical events. The Creation myth of the...
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Body Modifications in Secondary Vocational School Student Culture
Riegerová, Adela ; Heřmanský, Martin (advisor) ; Skripnik, Ondřej (referee)
This paper is intended to be read by those, who are interested in body modification, no matter if they come from academic community or from general public. It is focused specificly on piercing and tattoo in secondary vocational school student culture. First part of this paper mediate recent state of knowledge about the topic and revises some of the commonly used terms. The second part shows what motivates students to get piercing or tatto, what meanings they give to these body modifications and how students view them on themselves or on other people.
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Life as a tea ceremony - On subculture of tea fans in Czech republic
Binková, Kateřina ; Heřmanský, Martin (advisor) ; Ištvánek, Prokop (referee)
In this paper I have focused on subculture of tea fans, in people who devote intensively their time to tea and tea culture and whose lifestyle is characterized by being somehow alternative in comparison to mainstream society. The work is based on the empirical research which was running from 2007 to 2009. The main data source were semi-structured interviews gathered up at different places of the Czech Republic in years 2007 - 2008. The aim of this study has been to ascertain who the tea fans are, what tea and tea-making signify for them and how it is reflected in their lives. At the same time I have focused on the understanding how tea fans make sense of tea rooms as basic units of transmission of tea culture and in which way they are linked to their surroundings and wider society. In order to study tea fans' life I have consulted concepts of subculture, to which basic characterization tea fans suit. Simultaneously I have pointed out that in contrast with classical concepts of subculture, the tea fans' one differ in many aspects. First of all in the aspect that in this case it does not represent youth subculture and also it is not the subculture which would "fight" towards mainstream society.
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