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 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...

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...

Dissertation thesis deals with a head of angel on the grille of the St Bartolomej Cathedral in Pilsner where people are coming to touch fortune and its close surroundings. Within dissertation thesis I try to answer on the question whether Vosahlik´s close surroundings represents&#x...