Project information
Anthropology of the Death: The Comparative Sociocultural Analysis of the Dying, Death, Burial Rites and Rituals
- Project Identification
- GA404/06/0346
- Project Period
- 1/2006 - 12/2008
- Investor / Pogramme / Project type
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Czech Science Foundation
- Standard Projects
- MU Faculty or unit
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Faculty of Science
- prof. PhDr. Jaroslav Malina, DrSc.
- doc. Ing. Marie Dohnalová, CSc.
- prof. PhDr. Josef Kolmaš, DrSc.
- RNDr. Pavlína Lesová
- PhDr. Marie Pardyová, CSc.
- prof. PhDr. Jiří Svoboda, DrSc.
- prof. PhDr. Josef Unger, CSc.
- PhDr. Břetislav Vachala
- Keywords
- Anthropology of the Death, Comparative Sociocultural Analysis, Dying, Death, Burial Rite, Burial Ritual
The project belong to the subdiscipline of the anthropology of the death. Burial rites and rituals come under the social actual problems. Successfull resolution needs to be based on multidisciplinary permeation of relevant sciences: physical and socioculture antropology, archaelogy, ethnology, sociology etc. Presentation of the project is based on this plan view. Its results and data output lead up to anthropology, archaelogy, history, philosophy, psychology, sociology, ethnology, theology, religion science, medicine, but also to politics, statesmanship and government administration. We would like to analyse and characterize the main trends of the problems in the historical sequences within its borders of all considerable communities of the world during the time horizont from prehistory to present time. We would like to refer to distinctions and habitudes of burial rites according to social status, age, sex, etnicity, religion and cultural affiliation. Project includes dicussion about concepts of behaviour patterns and respects of these habitudes in a global view of interfere and inosculation of different cultures and nationalities in the present world, particularly human relations between Euroamerican civilization and other civilizations and cultures.
Publications
Total number of publications: 12
2003
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K interpretaci tzv. palatinského grafita
Religio : revue pro religionistiku, year: 2003, volume: 11, edition: 1
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Traianus - nejlepší mezi císaři
Univerzitní noviny, year: 2003, volume: 2003, edition: 11