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Barbora Hoblová and Mladoboleslavsko
Pilíková, Klára ; Pargač, Jan (referee) ; Štěpánová, Irena (advisor)
This presentation is devoted to the life and work of Barbora Hoblova, a significant figure of the region of Mlada Boleslav who was at the end of 19th and the beginning of 20th century an important social and ethnographic pioneer and an activist in women's movement and in the field of female education of this region. She was born in 1852 in Nymburk where as 20 years old she was credited with the foundation of a female reading society Lada in which she participated until her wedding in 1879. After the wedding together with her husband, a gymnasium professor, she moved to Mlada Boleslav. During first years in this city she was devoted to the education of her son until in the middle of eighties she became involved in ethnographic activity and few years later she participated in the birth of Mlada Boleslav's Society of Ladies and Maidens where she was active until her death. Thanks to her activities several important social institutions grew up in this city; such as nursery, a home for unemployed women, evening school of sewing etc. She participated also in the collection of materials for the Ethnographic Czecho-Slavic Exhibition which was held in 1895. For her contribution in organizing this exhibition she and her husband were reworded with a diploma and a medal which made her known among professionals in this...
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Jewish wedding rites in Czech and in Moravia in past and nowadays
Veselská, Dana ; Štěpánová, Irena (advisor) ; Sochorová, Ludmila (referee)
The introductory part of this work touches upon Jewish life and culture, sources, and, in general, the importance and course of marital union in Judawell as briefly looking at issues concerning the legal status of Jewish weddings emia and Moravia and the status of women in Jewish society. The next pdeals with the wedding preparations, ceremony and festivities, focusing on the actuawedding ceremony and, to a certain extent, following the structure of its usual coThe Jewish wedding has two basic portions - the betrothal (Heb. Kiddushin or Erushin) and the wedding (Heb. Nissuin). Before the actual ceremony under the wedding baldachin (Heb. huppah), the bride and groom fast, take a ritual bath (Heb. mikveh) and sign the wedding contract (Heb. ketubbah) with witnesses. After thceremony of bedeken - the veiling of the bride's face - the groom (Heb. hatan) athe bride (Heb. kala) are brought under the huppah, where the first part of the ceremony - the betrothal - begins. The bride circles the groom, a blessing is said over wine which is then drunk by the wedding couple, the ring is placed on the bride'finger and the wedding contract is read. The betrothal is then followed by the awedding, during which seven nuptial blessings (Heb. Sheva Berakhot) are recited and the wedding couple drink from a second cup of wine....
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Impact of ethnic war in Sri Lanka on social status of Tamil women
Hrdličková, Zuzana ; Vrhel, František (advisor) ; Štěpánová, Irena (referee) ; Knotková, Blanka (referee)
This PhD Thesis focuses on the relationship between war and gender, contextually set in Sri Lanka. It describes theoretical categories and specific gender issues typical to war, such as universal gendering of war and impact on the whole gender structure of war affected societies. The work then focuses on Tamil society in Sri Lanka: it shows the roots of contemporary Tamil female gender stereotype - old Dravidian belief in the female power of anangu and the ancient Hindu Law of Manu. These have resulted into twentieth century Sri Lankan Tamil female gender stereotyping, centred on the concept of kapu (chastity), i.e. self-controlled behaviour in every aspect of female existence stressing virginity in unmarried women, their limited interaction with the opposite sex and highlighting the most auspicious state of a woman - in marriage. Structuring women as chaste implied before the war their role was mainly in the domestic sphere, with very limited interaction with the world outside their homes and neighbourhoods. However, the Sri Lankan ethnic conflict (as described in this work), which started in the 1980s and continues until now, has had a serious impact on the lives of the majority of Sri Lankan Tamil civilians and their societal norms and constructions. Death of many men, displacement and destruction has...
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Traditional tibetan clothing from the anthropological point of view
Gyaltso, Lenka ; Štěpánová, Irena (referee) ; Maršálek, Jakub (advisor)
Autorka se bude zabývat tradičním tibetským oděvem převážně na základě etnografických materiálů z 19. a 1. poloviny 20. století. Úvodem představí prameny, z nichž bude vycházet, dále nastíní historický vývoj tibetského oděvu a jeho sepětí s historickým a kulturním vývojem Tibetu. V hlavní části, věnované - jak už bylo uvedeno - tibetskému oděvu v 19. a 1. polovině 20. stol., se bude zabývat oděvem z kulturně antropologické perspektivy. Pozornost bude věnovat zejména otázkám, do jaké míry oděv - či jeho jednotlivé složky - odráží etnicitu, příslušnost k určité společenské vrstvě, další dimenze společenského statusu (např. svobodná dívka a vdaná žena), případně také tomu, do jaké míry se v oděvu odrážejí např. náboženské představy. Závěrem budou také představena a popsána regionální specifika odívání a zdobení na historickém území Tibetu.
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Prague graffiti subculture - development and context
Hronešová, Lucie ; Štěpánová, Irena (advisor) ; Krupková, Jaroslava (referee) ; Kadeřábková, Jaroslava (referee)
Přestože neoficiální či nelegální nápisy, kresby a malby umístěné na místech veřejně přístupných jsou součástí našich měst již velmi dlouhou dobu, v poslední době se jejich jistá varianta i u nás rozšířila natolik, že se pro mnohé stala skutečnou obtíží. Pro etnologa zabývajícího se urbánní etnologií se stala fenoménem, který vyvolává čím dál více zvědavosti i profesionálního zájmu. Nesrozumitelnost těchto děl vede okolí k pocitu, že zde existuje jakýsi tajemný svět graffiti. Svým způsobem tomu tak je, pokud termínem "svět" označíme stejně jako Marc Augé "společenství, jež se podílejí na nějaké činnosti a navzájem sdílejí některé zvyky, vztahy a hodnoty." 1. Tento svět respektive tato subkultura a její vanace v českých podmínkách se stala předmětem mého zkoumání. Přestože subkultura graffiti se v Čechách začala utvářet před téměř patnácti lety, její etnologické zkoumání nemá u nás prakticky žádnou tradici.2 Tato práce je tedy v převážné míře založena na poznatcích dlouhodobého terénního výzkumu. Protože se domnívám, že psaním o subkultuře graffiti představuji čtenářům této práce nový "svět", je tomuto předpokladu přizpůsobeno uspořádání jednotlivých kapitol. Seznámení se slangem a část teoretických výsledků, které jsou opřeny jak o studium literatury tak o výsledky terénního výzkumu jsou prezentovány...
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Provincial town, culture and etnography
Jeníčková, Kateřina ; Sochorová, Ludmila (referee) ; Štěpánová, Irena (advisor)
Eleonora and Marie Prosek were the teachers and ethnography research workers, which on the break 19 and 20 century worked in Turnov. Their fates show us what acceptance had ideas of women emancipation among active women in small provincial town. Their interest in ethnography show us beginning of ethnography as a scientific branch and what importance had women in that. Eleonora was born on 13 th December 1844 in Prague and Marie was born on 10 th February 1858 also in Prague. Sisters obvious come from family, which came under the middle classes. In Prague sisters attended the school. Sisters were venerable much distant and so possibilities of education they had different. Eleonora gained education of teacher of needlework, but Marie was able to gain education on school for teachers and started to teach also specialist subjects. To Turnov came Eleonora in 1872 and started to teach needlework on school for girls. In this time she was interesting of national dresses and textile. This interest she specified from 1886 in cooperation with museum in Turnov. She cooperated also on preparation on big exhibitions in 90. 19 century, which took place in Prague. She completed national dress of Turnov and lake the first she described national dress of Turnov, which retained in 80. 19 century. With museum she cooperated to...
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Anna Regina Husová (1857-1945)
Tůmová, Marie ; Sochorová, Ludmila (referee) ; Štěpánová, Irena (advisor)
The main theme of the presented dissertation is life's work of Anna Regina Husová (1857 - 1945). The autor, ethnology student Marie Tůmová (Department of Ethnology Charles University in Prague), prowides a comprehensive overview of many aspects of her life which hasn't been mapped in the academic scene of the Czech republic yet. The author proposes first, that she was an outstanding personality in ethnology of our regional history. The work itself is divided into two main sections (life and life's work of Anna Regina Husová) and subsections which analysing the topic in a specific context: a brief introduction, structure, proposition, conclusion and full bibliography. There are also seven appendices (activities, friends, a brief look into her prose and poetry, illustrations, this English summary and CD disk), literature and sources. The methodological backround of the presented thesis was grounded in the professional qualifications, archive's sources, literature and recent literature as well. Cardinal method used in this thesis is a dense and holistic case study: a mohography. Although the thesis of graduate student Marie Tůmová, led by lecturer Irena Štěpánová, concerns many aspects selected regional personality exceeding 180 pages in lenght, it still raises several unanswered questions.
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Pecirka's National Calender and its authors
Slavíková, Šárka ; Sochorová, Ludmila (referee) ; Štěpánová, Irena (advisor)
The core topic ofthis thesis is National Calendar (Národní Kalendář), later also known as Pečírka' s National Calendar (Pečírkův Národní Kalendář), and its formers. National Calendar had been published in Bohemia yearly for almost a hundred years, from the 1850's till the end of the 1940's. The success of National Calendar was undeniably the result of the efforts of Dr. Josef Pečírka, the founder of the Calendar, and his wife Mariana, who carried forward the tradition of publishing the popular book after her husband's premature death. However, not even her own death brought the end to the Calendar; the Pečírka family kept compiling and publishing it regularly each year until 1949. ln this thesis, the author focused mainly on the period 1858 - 1904, the era spanning between publishing of the first issue of the Calendar and the death of Mariana Pečírková who represented the first generation of its creators. The first chapter represents an introduction to general history of calendars. It gives an account of inception of calendar as a system, describes the first means of its recording and the later shift towards book-like calendars, and depicts the evolution of calendars in the world. This chapter also mentions the predecessors of classical calendar literature and follows the bloom of calendars in Bohemia,...
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