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The bachelor thesis focuses on the perception of "traditional" food as part of the identity of Czechs living in Serbian Banat. The thesis describes and documents the food that the respondents consider traditional for their culture. The thesis describes the cultural aspects of eating and emphasizes the food of the compatriots from the perspective of anthropology. Participant observation supplemented by polostructured and informal interviews is chosen as the method of data collection. The thesis will mainly focus on the subjective perception of traditional food among the local residents regardless of age and gender. The aim of the work is to create a comprehensive overview of the perception of traditional food of Czechs living in Serbian Banat. The work will also try to answer the question of what food means to the locals and what is the relationship between it and their identity. At the same time, it will open the question of how the idea of "traditional food" is constructed and what role food plays in "Czechness" in the regional communities. It will be based primarily on the socio-cultural aspect of food, which is not only a biological source of nutritional value for humans, but also a symbol (Fischler 1988) and a way of self-identification (Fox 2014).

On one side, the diploma thesis examines the phenomenon of sleep paralysis (hereinafter referred to as SP), its cultural conceptualizations in archaic folklore in the Czech lands and in contemporary (modern) folklore - mainly it is focused on individual and collective explanations of its meanings. The theoretical part briefly outlines the character of SP from the perspective of modern psychiatry and the archaic folkloric interpretations of this sleep disorder appearing in various non-European cultures. The theoretical part is mostly focused on the phenomenon of the moth, the phantom, which the author considers to be one of possible understandings of this sleep disorder in the legends and customs of archaic Czech folklore. The research part of the thesis is based on ethnographic fieldwork. The aim was to map out, on the basis of ethnographic interviews with people who have experienced SP, how SP can be interpreted individually today, how this individual interpretation overlaps with the folkloric manifestations of the sleep disorder described in the theoretical part, relevant to a given cultural setting, and how pre-existing cultural models appearing in contemporary popular culture and modern folklore shape the individual experience of SP and the personal interpretation of informants. In yet another...

This work is focused on craftsmanship performed by individual craftsmen or by small companies. The author is a leatherworker by his profession and therefore he is an insider in this field. The paper is considering relationships between manufacturers of craft goods and consumers of these goods. These relationships are not just determined by price and utility value of products, but also by symbolic value of these artifacts in the first place. Relationships between manufacturers and consumers include a lot of rituals. Artifacts are usually deemed "traditional" by manufactures and also by consumers. The concept of tradition is commodified and used as a marketing tool in order to increase profit. There is a lot of clichés in the studied field, such as the national myth of "golden Czech hands" or about mythical person of Tomáš Baťa. Important princip how to establish relationships between manufactuers and consumers is geographical distance. Manufactuers set boundaries between each other and if there is someone who is not holding line of traditional craftsman procedure firmly, this wrongdoer can became ritually unclean. Another important principle crucial to set up good relationships between consumers and manufacturers is sustainable development principle. There is a lot of cooperation between different...

Crime and turbofolk as a cover to autocracy? Nationalism in Serbia at the end of the 20th century Abstract: In this MA. thesis it will be investigated how, by the influence of the politics of Milosevic in the 1990s, implemented by the political elite gathered around him, a rise of crime, war profiteering and the development of a new popular culture genre of turbofolk appeared in Serbia. Such socio-political conditions, supported by a strong media propaganda by the regime, turned out to be the key pillars of Milosevic's autocratic rule. Special emphasis will be given to a new cultural phenomenon that struck this region in the period - the phenomenon of "turbofolk" as the dominant music genre of the time, that completes the picture of Serbian society during the 1990s. Overwhelmed with elements of kitsch and baroque, this popular music genre which originated in the restaurants of central Serbia suburbs, has become an unavoidable part of everyday life of young people, whose new idols were individuals who measured their success by the number and importance of their criminal ventures. The emergence of turbofolk, therefore, is considered in light of the birth of the new socio-political circumstances. But it is interesting to note that turbofolk, with some adjustments, remains the dominant musical genre in Serbia...

(in English): The thesis focuses on the Czech sugar factory in Gorna Oryahovitsa in northern Bulgaria, especially on the workers' colony which existed between 1912 and 1948 when the company was being put under state control. The paper provides a comprehensive report on the circumstances of the origin, development and current condition of the sugar factory and the colony. The study puts the specific instance of the Czech minority in Gorna Oryahovitsa into a wider context of the Czech migration into Bulgaria. It also provides a comprehensive picture of the Czech colony and its inhabitants, bringing new insights into their lifestyle, activities and contacts with the major society. The core of this work is to use written and pictorial materials. Therefore, the basic methodological approach was to search, collect and record the materials that in some way affected the Czech sugar factory and the colony, both in Bohemia and Bulgaria. These materials were first analyzed and then organized to create meaningful frameworks for subsequent interpretation.

Bachelor's work is focused on evolution of european fencing and it's practice today. The work is divided into three parts. First part provides description about evolution of different fencing styles and schools - fencing with longsword, messer, rapier and other weapons. It also aims to present famous fencing masters and their fencing manuscripts (fechtbuchs). In second part, there is a decription about practicing fencing today. This part also presents HEMA (Historical European Martial Arts) community, it's beginning and activities today. Third part od the work provides comparison between fencing techniques of fencing masters and fencing in theatres and cinematography today. This part is based on interviews. Keywords: fencing, martial arts, HEMA, fencing masters, fencing school

The diploma thesis deals with the ethnological contribution and the extensive academic publishing activities of Professor Alois Musil, a remarkable Czech Arabist and Orientalist, especially with scientific pieces published in New York in the six-volume edition of the American Geographical Society between 1926 and 1928. The special attention is given to the sixth edition of the 'Oriental Explorations and Studies' entitled 'The Manners and Customs of the Rwala Bedouins' and this Musil's fieldwork is compared with later anthropological field surveys of the Bedouins ar-Ruwallah. The main part of the thesis is an analysis of Professor Musil's works and its contribution to the ethnographic and ethnological studies of manners and customs of traditional tribes and clans of the Arabian Peninsula and surrounded areas (such as modern Syria, Iraq and Jordan). The diploma thesis is also focused on a brief outline of the life of Professor Musil in a cultural-historical context with regard to his political activities on the Arabian Peninsula and his research of the North-Arab Bedouins ar-Ruwallah, the Banú Sakhr of Jordan and the Shammar tribe. The main aim of the thesis is a comprehensive evaluation of the ethnographic and ethnological contribution of Alois Musil's works in the social and historical science. The...

The aim of the thesis is to identify and analyze the reasons that play a role in choosing a life partner among members of the Armenian community in the Czech Republic. The basis of the thesis will be a qualitative research conducted through unstructured interviews with Armenians living in the Czech Republic focused on informers of different gender and different generation of immigration. Research will concentrate mainly on the criteria by which informers choose partners, whether and why they prefer Armenians or other nationalities and on their perception of ethnic gender and family stereotypes.

The dissertation deals with the issue of physical modifications, especially tattoos, in the environment of Czech male prisons. It is based on ethnographic research conducted between 2013 and 2017 in a total of five Czech men's security prisons. The aim of the thesis is to describe the phenomenon of decorating the body of inmates sentenced to serve prison sentences in Czech male prisons and to present the interpretative and meaningful potential of body treatments, especially tattooing, in relation to the so-called second life of the convicted. As a part of the thesis, the design of ethnographic research in the environment of Czech male prisons, including its limits and pitfalls, is presented, while the specificity of this research field in the field of socio-scientific research is demonstrated. Attention is paid to the issue and importance of body in the prison environment and, in consequence, to body modifications that are used at the prison level to resist against the attempt to discipline convicts' bodies through unified institutional practices. Emphasis is placed primarily on tattooing as the most frequent and the most significant physical modification of the criminal subculture in the Czech prison environment. The final chapter and the pivotal part of this thesis brings the categorization of...

Rastafarianism, whether as a religion, movement or subculture, is often presented as a purely Jamaican phenomenon. This work is focused on the research of the Rastafarian community, which were originated in the territory of the Czech Republic. Based on the literature, its introductoryin with the origin and existence of the Rastafarian community at the site of its origin, in Jamaica. Based on the research conducted in the form of participating observations, the Rastafarian community in the Czech Republic is also presented. The aim of the research is to obtain information about the Rastafarian community, to compare with the original community represented by the sources and focus on the formation of Rastafarian identity in the Czech Republic.

ŠPIRKOVÁ, Veronika: "Homeless shelter" [Diploma Thesis]. Charles University in Prague. Faculty of Philosophy; Department of Ethnology. Thesis supervisor: Doc. PhDr. Marek Jakoubek, Ph.D., Degree of Qualification: Master. Prague: FFUK, 2017. ?? p. The diploma thesis deals with the socio-spatial aspects of the social service of the day center and the dormitory designed for people without a roof. It presents its current state of affairs with regard to the clientele, the function of the shelter, the principles of affiliation in it, but also the reflection of the homeless people and the employees on the necessity of change. The aim of the thesis is to visualize the living space, opinions and values of the clients of the shelter and their relation to the place, mediated by their statements and everyday practices. The thesis is divided into eight chapters. Thematically they describe previous investigation of issue, theoretical basis, methodics of research, goals, etics and auto- ethnographic experience. They describes also clients of the shelter, its purpose and values, rules, habits that are in the shelter, and last but not least its possible reconceptualization. The conclusion of the thesis summarizes the findings of research and their possible usage in future research. Diploma thesis is elaborated on...

The aim of this thesis is to conduct complex research of orally transmitted genres of modern folklore in the area of the Nymburk district. Importance of contemporary legends (urban legends) and rumours is stressed in this work. The author is trying to find an influence of international narratives on those actually collected during his research in the smalltown and rural areas. On the other hand, there could be an examples of original and unique narratives that could be found only in area of the Nymburk district. Main hypothesis of the thesis is to find out whether Czech oral narratives from big cities differ from those of rural and smalltown areas, and whether some kinds of these stories can survive only in one of those areas. Study also focus on who from local society is mostly spreading such narratives.

This bachelor thesis concerns with the topic of the European migration crisis, the security aspects connected with this phenomenon and the radicalization of the Czech society. The paper introduces the possible security threats posed by illegal immigration to the countries of the European Union with the emphasis mainly on the radicalization of the European society. Subsequently, the thesis focuses on the topic of militias formed in the Czech Republic and using the method of the terrain research attempts to provide an insight into the attitudes and opinions of those citizens of the Czech Republic who are former or active members of the so called National Militia, a civic initiative which establishment was mainly a result of the migration crisis and which main task is to defend the homes, lives, health and property of Czech citizens and to preserve peace and stability of the Czech society. In the end, the thesis compares the supposed causes of the radicalization of the society with the real motives of the militiamen to join the National Militia identified during field research.

Starting in 2015 European migration crisis very strongly influenced social discourse across the continent. A debate about migration crisis goes on not only in media, but it is also part of everyday lives and conversation among ordinary people. The goal of this master thesis was to identify culturaly established ideas about legal and illegal migration, immigration and immigrants at Czech and British students. A research was taking place in Czech Republic and Great Britain in- depth interviews, questions were also aimed at students' orientation in this issue, their ideas about immigrant integration or their view on xenophobic attitudes in society. The data obtained were analyzed by using the grounded theory and the result of this thesis is a theory drawn from them. Key words: students, migration, Great Britain, Czech Republic

The study deals with the problem of applicability of two anthropological theories, structural functionalism and interpretive anthropology of Clifford Geertz. By applicability is meant what concrete difference using of one or the other theory brings about in ethnography. Each of the theories is at first thoroughly examined with emphasis on its possible aims, assumptions, and consequences for an ethnographer. Then each theory is put to test in examination of one particular ethnography associated with the theory. Evans-Pritchard's The Nuer serves as an instance of structural functionalism. Clifford Geertz's Negara as an example of interpretative analysis. Structural functionalism is shown to provide an ethnographer with a much more definite guidance which contributes to better possibilities of verification and comparability of the results than interpretive anthropology. Apart from the main subject, the study is concerned with more general questions, especially related to non-existence of a paradigm in anthropology and some of its causes.

This study deals with Czech speakers in Australia, focusing on their use of the Czech and English languages as tools of belonging to a community. Its aim is to discuss the situation of Czech speakers on the continent from the perspective of a small Czech language in an English-speaking country. The starting point for the study is scientific publications on bilingualism, multilingualism and transnationalism issued in the Czech and English-speaking environments. Another source is books about the history of the immigration and language policies in Australia and about the Australian identity. Finally, the methods involve field research based on participant observation of groups of Czechs in social networks and during Czech church services in Sydney in November 2015. Fieldwork is also based on semi-structured interviews which took place in Australia between August 2014 and January 2016. They were intended to study the reality of Czech speakers in Australia and to illustrate the theories on the use of language by bilingual speakers in the Australian context. The first part of this study gives the theoretical background to the notions of transnationalism, belonging to a group, bilingualism and changes in language use. The second part focuses on language and immigration policies of the states of Australia...

The thesis "Syrians in the Czech Republic" is engaged with the Syrians living in the Czech Republic, and their activities here. Attempts to outline the Syrians view on the Czech society and their integration into Czech society. The main method of work is a field research among the Syrians supplemented with study of technical literature. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The doctoral thesis deals with questions of intercultural education in context of foreign language teaching and learning by adults. Language and culture are interrelated and inseparable from each other in terms of their acquirement. Language is the main medium through which culture is expressed, language doesn't exist without culture. Contemporary foreign language education gives priority to integrative acquiring of language and culture, i.e. it is necessary to learn culture by means of language and language by means of culture. Culture and interculturality are significant and key part of foreign language education and fundamental for the development and formation of the student's personality. The main topic of this thesis is the study of the relationship between foreign language teaching and learning versus intercultural learning by adults. The main goal of the thesis is to find and describe what possibilities and media contemporary foreign language learning and teaching anticipate for involving and implementing of culturological paradigm. The text also focuses on some problematical questions in view of the essence of intercultural education, namely in relation to foreign language education. The thesis concerns with the language education of adults in the Czech Republic.

All in one sack: a media anthropology of the Roma This dissertation brings a new view to Czech media sciences on the subject of ethnic minority. The purposes of this work is to demonstrate: how the Roma perceive representations of themselves in printed media, how they are perceived, and how the image of the Roma is constructed in print media. From an anthropologist's standpoint, the topic of this research paper is being analyzed from an emic point of view, meaning from the participant's perspective. The disciplinary framework falls under the umbrella of cultural studies and media anthropology. The dissertation concerns itself mainly with the self-definition of the Roma: a Rom being someone who defines her/himself as a Rom. The work examines data taken from eleven in-person interviews with Romani participants and ten interviews with persons from the ethnic majority. The main theme of these interviews is the subject's response to nine articles sourced from Czech and Roma newspapers. Additional analysis is focused on a discourse of Roma magazines. The dissertation is crowned by analysis of observation of the life of Roma redaction. The work shows how the Romani people's perceptions of themselves stem from the everyday. The Roma feel that they have a mostly negative public image, especially in the...

This master's thesis focuses on analysing the media image of the Parisian riots provided by two Czech countrywide daily newspapers, with a special emphasis on the way these events were presented and interpreted. It involves the examination of the following thematic units: 1. the reasons for riots, 2. the protesters and their life and attitudes, 3. the suburbs, their origin and ethnic structure, 4. Islam and Muslims.