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Carnival and Schizophreny of the Most Landscape.
Ištvánek, Prokop ; Haluzík, Radovan (advisor) ; Uherek, Zdeněk (referee)
Resume The goal of my thesis is to familiarize readers with Schizophrenia, a term used by local people to describe a traumatic social phenomenon which is to be found in Most brown coal mining region, northern part of Czech Republic. I start from Sherry Ortner's assumption that history is influenced both by social system and by agency. Therefore, I analyze traumatic face of Most landscape, reorganized by modern technology heavily together with anency of local inhabitants transformed onto collective public events. Readers can find here one of the first attempt to organize rich material, collected durnig my five years long ethnographic field work done in a Strupcice village. By the reasons of socialistic programme to mine the village and thanks to postsocialistic changes in Czech law, Strupcice got stuck and surrounded by two large mines. The village is dynamically developing presently. There are two main chapters from total five in the thesis. In the first one, I find the traumatic part of the surrounding landscape in several kinds of material, nevertheless the most important one is represented by naratives. Another main chapter is focused on collective events. I analyze them using some concepts of several anthropolgists, for example Victor Turner and his Social drama, Richard Schechner and his Performance,...
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Carnival and Schizophreny of the Most Landscape.
Ištvánek, Prokop ; Haluzík, Radovan (advisor) ; Uherek, Zdeněk (referee)
Resume The goal of my thesis is to familiarize readers with Schizophrenia, a term used by local people to describe a traumatic social phenomenon which is to be found in Most brown coal mining region, northern part of Czech Republic. I start from Sherry Ortner's assumption that history is influenced both by social system and by agency. Therefore, I analyze traumatic face of Most landscape, reorganized by modern technology heavily together with anency of local inhabitants transformed onto collective public events. Readers can find here one of the first attempt to organize rich material, collected durnig my five years long ethnographic field work done in a Strupcice village. By the reasons of socialistic programme to mine the village and thanks to postsocialistic changes in Czech law, Strupcice got stuck and surrounded by two large mines. The village is dynamically developing presently. There are two main chapters from total five in the thesis. In the first one, I find the traumatic part of the surrounding landscape in several kinds of material, nevertheless the most important one is represented by naratives. Another main chapter is focused on collective events. I analyze them using some concepts of several anthropolgists, for example Victor Turner and his Social drama, Richard Schechner and his Performance,...
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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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