The aim of the dissertation thesis DisORIENTation: Ethnography of Power in the Visual Art Scene of Marrakech is to describe and analyse the field of contemporary visual art in Marrakech within a specific time, where the author is taking into account the Western forms of d...

The dissertation deals with the politics of memory related to the Nazi violence during the Second World War. The subject of study is the construction of the cultural memory at the Ravensbrück Memorial, situated on the site of a former women?s concentration camp, and the c...

The aim of this dissertation is to critically evaluate the perceived need for more male teachers and describe and explain the functioning of the gender order in elementary schools in terms of structural (dis)advantages of men in it. I combined several methods in my ethnographi...

This dissertation brings a view of young Vietnamese living in the Czech Republic and puts them in their immediate environment - the Vietnamese family. We can say that the family is as a bearer of culture, a unit of socialization that constructs an individual's view of...

The research focuses on the subjective experience of people living with HIV/AIDS, their experiences with homophobia and institutional discrimination in the Czech health care facilities in the context of the concept of structural violence. The concept of structural violence provides a us...

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The aim of the dissertation is documentation, classification, indexing and interpretation of informally distributed and collectively shared narratives of Western Bohemia, especially from the area of Pilsen and the surrounding towns and municipalities where demonic beings and phenomena appear, as ...

Mediation of labour migration of Ukrainians to the Czech Republic from a transnational social perspective.

Abstract This thesis, titled "Transnational social field of Czech fellow countrymen from Banat mountains diaspora, location, modernization" I like to suggests that there exist brand new form of compatriot identity fully integrated in a "deteritorialized social space". The st...

This dissertation aims to enrich the debate about the nature of value through the analysis of household waste in the countryside of West Bohemia. I argue that value is constructed via the relationship to action and materiality mediated by language. It is evident that handling&...

The current thesis examines the use of nonverbal communication between Czech and French speakers in the workplace to determine intercultural variations in gestures and other nonverbal signals. The research was undertaken from the perspective of Social and Cultural Anthropology. It focuses on...

The Karakachans, Former nomadic shepherds, live in Bulgaria and Greece. Those in Bulgaria were forced to settle during the collectivization process in the late 1950´s. This study focuses on the changes in social organization, subsistence, and identities within this broad socio-economic trans...