The article reflects on whether and when it is possible to see home schooling as a reflection of cultural creativism as defined by Ray and Anderson. The heterogeneous nature of home schooling is explored here through the theoretical frame of the anthropology of education, with a more narrow focus on different parental ethnotheories (Harkness and Super) and the theory of capital (Bourdieu). Set against primary research, represented by two case studies, the article shows how families that practise home schooling enter the game of capital, how they justify their decisions, and how they negotiate their difference. Based on personal practice these families contribute to the overall transformation of the field of education. Given that they do so not from the position of a lobbyist or a movement leader but from a position where they are convinced of their ideological and action isolation, the author concludes that it is possible to consider here a parallel with cultural creativism.
Článek představuje pohled Romů na nemoc, umírání a smrt z perspektivy sociální antropologie. Sociální věda definuje nemoc v prvé řadě jako stav protikladný zdraví. Jako taková je do značné míry subjektivní a relativní, ovlivněná rodnou (nativní) kulturou. Etnomedicína, podobor sociální antropologie nabízí pro snadnější pochopení odlišné ontologické vize Model vysvětlení Artura Kleinmana (1980), který je v textu využíván. Článek nenabízí praktická řešení a návody pro každodenní jednání s pacienty. Poukazuje spíše na odlišnosti a podobnosti v chování a v promýšlení nemoci a smrti dvěma vedle sebe žijícími kulturami. Ve své celistvosti představuje text výzvu promýšlení takových kategorií, jakými jsou kvalita života či dobrá smrt., This paper aims to describe the ways Roma people deal with illness and death from the perspective of social anthropology. Social science defines illness primarily as an opposite to the state of health. As such, it sees it to large extend as a subjective and relative phenomenon, seriously determined by ones native culture. To illustrate the context, the author uses Explanatory model of Arthur Kleinman (1980) and sets it against the primary data, observed during the interaction between the Roma and the majority medical staff in the current Czech Republic. Paper does not offer practical solutions. Rather, it points to differences and similarities in acting and thinking about illness by two different cultures, uplifting relativity of its validity in mutual interaction, as well as stereotypes that burden both teams of actors., Irena Kašparová, and Literatura