Department of Antrhopology
The Department of Anthropology is an educational, research, and academic center within the Faculty of Arts at the University of West Bohemia.
Department of Anthropology
Faculty of Arts | University of West Bohemia
About our Department
The Department of Anthropology (KSA) is an academic center within the Faculty of Arts at the University of West Bohemia, specializing in teaching and research in the field of Social and Cultural Anthropology (SKA) at the bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral levels. In addition to teaching, KSA is deeply involved in extensive research projects in the areas of social and cultural anthropology (also known as ethnology) and biological anthropology.
The aim of teaching anthropology and ethnology at KSA is to provide students with theoretical, practical, and methodological training for professional roles that focus primarily on the cultural and social diversity of contemporary complex societies.
Graduates of the social and cultural anthropology programs typically find employment in various educational and research institutions, public administration, non-governmental organizations, museums, archives, media, and also in the commercial sector.
In addition to traditional anthropological research on so-called indigenous populations, the teaching and research at SKA also focus on contemporary topics such as migration, social ghettos, minorities, homelessness, and new religious and identity movements. Further areas of study include material culture, electronic media, ethnographic film, and issues of development and humanitarian aid.
In the field of biological anthropology, KSA focuses on human ethology and the biological determinants of human behavior, bioarchaeology and skeletal anthropology, paleoanthropology, human adaptability and variability, and the use of statistical methods in anthropological research.
What is anthropology?
Anthropology is a progressive scientific discipline with more than a century of tradition, which, unlike other fields, encompasses and integrates a wide range of approaches to understanding human behavior in various environments and social contexts.