* Tematické okruhy:
1. Introductory Class
2. Language and Society

Mandatory reding : Carmen Brandt: The Identity Politics of Language and Script in South Asia.pdf

3. Social Structure

Mandatory reding : Stratification.pdf or any chapter of Dipankar Gupta-Caste in Question_ Identity or Hierarchy (Contributions to Indian Sociology_ Occasional Studies, 12) (2004).pdf

4. Family and Kinship

Mandatory reding : Patricia Uberoi: Family.PDF

5. Caste

Mandatory reding : Chrispopher J. Fuller: Kasty.pdf

6. Gender
7. Villages and Urban Centres
8. Popular Culture
9. Art
10. Political System
11. Contemporary Issues I. - Violence: Domestic and Public
12. Contemporary Issues II. - Biotechnologies: Science, Business, and Society

The following links allow access to documentaries on South Asia on topics which relate local cultural milieus with upcoming technologies and global capitalism, namely trade in human hair, surrogate motherhood, drugs in prostitution, and organ trade.

Hair India

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XOxXXTRDyA

Outsourcing Surrogacy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9FPiNc6-dI

Sex workers take steroids - Bangladeshi sex workers 'plump up' for clients | Guardian Investigations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGKBMvtDY68

Human trafficking victims forced to sell their organs share harrowing stories

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUsd7Qs4NOk