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| Semester | Frühjahrsemester 2013 |
| Angebotsmuster | einmalig |
| Dozierende | Silvy Chakkalakal (silvy.chakkalakal@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | After a general introduction to concepts such as "culture as text", "the interpretive approach" and "ethnographic fiction", we will examine ethnographic texts written by prominent anthropologists from the 1920s and 30s. In this connection, the works of Ruth Benedict (Patterns of Culture, 1934) and Margaret Mead (Coming of Age in Samoa, 1928) were critized for being too novelistic. Another less famous student of Franz Boas and writer of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston, can be renowned as a pioneer in Literary Anthropology. Examining these works, our aim in the seminar will be to explore critically how these early experimental forms of anthropological writing created new narrative strategies in the representation of the cultural Other. We will look at aspects such as modernist sensibility, rhetorical tropes and allegorical patterns in early ethnographic writing, and the making and writing of cultural experience in the context of early Cultural Anthropology and Literature. |
| Lernziele | Students will be introduced to crucial issues and concepts of the "Writing Culture"-debate. Further they will acquire a general insight into the relationship between Anthropology and Literature. Exemplarily, we will follow this relationship in the anthropological and literary works of the American cultural relativists of the 1920s and 30s. |
| Literatur | Geertz, Clifford: "Works and Lives. The Anthropologist as Author". Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988. Clifford, James and George Marcus (eds.): "Writing Culture: Poetics and Politics of Ethnography". Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. |
| Teilnahmebedingungen | Open to MA students only. |
| Anmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung | Please register by mail to silvy.chakkalakal@unibas.ch. The number of participants is restricted to 25. |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | Online-Angebot obligatorisch |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
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| Module |
Modul English & American Literature (Master Studienfach: Englisch) Modul Kulturtheorien, Kulturanalyse und Fachgeschichte (Master Studienfach: Kulturanthropologie) Modul Schrift 2 (Theorien, Methoden und Perspektiven der Analyse schriftlicher Kultur) (Master Studienfach: Kulturanthropologie) |
| Leistungsüberprüfung | Lehrveranst.-begleitend |
| Hinweise zur Leistungsüberprüfung | Regular attendance, active participation, two response papers and one project team presentation |
| An-/Abmeldung zur Leistungsüberprüfung | Anmelden: Belegen; Abmelden: nicht erforderlich |
| Wiederholungsprüfung | keine Wiederholungsprüfung |
| Skala | Pass / Fail |
| Wiederholtes Belegen | nicht wiederholbar |
| Zuständige Fakultät | Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Anbietende Organisationseinheit | Fachbereich Englische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft |