Basic Research

Basic Research

      In the field of basic research, understood as theoretical and empirical activities aimed at acquiring new knowledge without a necessarily applied focus, the Department of Anthropology conducts studies on a wide range of topics within social/cultural anthropology, biological anthropology, and criminology.

      Basic Research Projects

      Key cultural sources, ideas, and practices of Western alternative spirituality and medicine
      LUXCORE -Luxury, Corruption and Global Ethics: Towards a Critical Cultural Theory of the Moral Economy of Fraud (2022-2023)
      In their own words: How and why crime occurs in the autobiographical narratives of offenders
      Birth and fertility rates in Central Europe from Neolithic to Medieval times: an application of stochastic simulations
      Construction of organized crime representations in the policies on organized crime in the Czech Republic between 1989 and 2016
      The relationships between humans and large canids – the dogs and wolves of the Gravettian Předmostí site
      Social Dimension of Household Waste: Consumption in the Post-Socialist Space (2014)
      Innovative approaches in bioarchaeology: taphonony of burnt burials in the Plzen region (2015)
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