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| Semester | Herbstsemester 2014 |
| Angebotsmuster | einmalig |
| Dozierende | Till Förster (till.foerster@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | The theme: Expressive culture has not been a well-defined concept in anthropology; it was used as a loose reference to all forms of social practice that make cultural con-tents visible, legible or, more generally, lend it a form that others can experience. It covers approaches to fine and performing arts, to literature and other conventional categories of artistic expression. More recently, however, it increasingly includes fuzzy, unorderly and messy fields of culture that, until then, were not recognised as legitimate themes of scientific inquiry. The move towards such themes was closely linked to the transformation of anthropology as a discipline since the mid 1980s and its crisis of representation. This passage from modern, “lucid” subjects to the uncanny and irritating aspects of cultural expression produced a new body of literature that is still taking shape. One of the insights that surfaced in this trajectory is that political articulation is not necessarily bound to the forms that are recognised as legitimate in a particular political regime. It can take very subtle forms that are often not perceived by outsiders, it can play with double connotations or it can produce alternative meanings by creatively transforming official signs and figures of thought into something else or by emptying them of any content. This research seminar looks at how this new field of anthropology emerged since the 1980s, which theoretical shifts were made to broaden anthropology’s perspective and how that was debated in the academy. It does in two steps: First, the seminar looks at seminal ethnographic studies that changed the anthropological agenda. Second, it discusses how such findings influenced the conceptualisation of politics in anthropology and its neighbouring disciplines, in particular political sociology and political science. |
| Lernziele | The seminar is divided into three parts, addressing different levels of scholarly proficiency: • Firstly, it introduces into classical ethnographic studies of expressive culture and political articulation. These presentations and papers are mainly meant for MA students who have a BA in a social science and who have already acquired basic knowledge on their theories. • Secondly, it looks at later developments in the theory of expressive culture and the concepts that have been developed through the 1980s until the present. These topics are meant for advanced MA students. • Thirdly, the seminar tries to trace the more recent transformations in theories of political articulation. These topics are meant for advanced MA students and PhD students. |
| Literatur | Bottomley, Gillian, 1991: Culture, Ethnicity, and the Politics/Poetics of Representation, in: Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies 1.3: 303–320. McRobbie, Angela, 1994 [2005]: Post-Modernism and Popular Culture. London: Routledge. |
| Bemerkungen | see program on the notice board |
| Weblink | https://ethnologie.unibas.ch/studies/cou |
| Teilnahmebedingungen | For BA and MA. Die Teilnehmerzahl ist auf 30 Personen beschränkt. Die Plätze werden nach Anmeldedatum und Studienfachzugehörigkeit vergeben. Vorrang haben die Studierenden der unter "Module" aufgelisteten Studienfächer/-gänge. Die Anmeldung erfolgt über ISIS. |
| Anmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung | www.isis.unibas.ch |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | kein spezifischer Einsatz |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
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| Module |
Modul Fields: Media and Imagination (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul Research Skills in Social and Cultural Anthropology (Master Studienfach: Anthropology) Modul Social Anthropology (Master Studiengang: African Studies (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Theorie der Ethnologie (Master Studienfach: Ethnologie (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) |
| Leistungsüberprüfung | Lehrveranst.-begleitend |
| Hinweise zur Leistungsüberprüfung | The seminar works on two levels: The first two parts of the seminar are related to texts that will be made available on Adam. Presentations on of the first two parts of the seminar (see program below) should be based on these texts accessible to all students. Papers should include more literature, though. The third part of the seminar is addressing more loosely structured bodies of literature. The students will need to search themselves for further publications and will also need to read them in relation to the references provided beforehand. All participants are expected to a presentation on the respective subject, either based on a text or, preferably, on related texts. The presentation should be about 30min., followed by a discussion of 15min. A handout about the most important arguments of that text should accompany the presentation. The handout should not have more than two pages and should be made accessible on isis one week in advance (please do send it to me as a file and in time). All students who want to write a seminar paper should do a presentation of about 45 to 60min., followed by a discussion of 30 to 45min. It is expected that the presenters writing a seminar paper search for the relevant literature and develop a presentation that gives the other students an overview on that particular subject. Papers should be 20 to 25 pages long (12pt, 1.5 line spacing or ca 8000 words). Registration for papers is open until October 31, 2014. They are due on December 31 for those who will need the credits this semester. All others may submit their papers until the beginning of the autumn term 2014, i.e. by September 15, 2014. All papers should be submitted as word- or pdf-files via e-mail. |
| 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 Ethnologie |