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| Semester | Herbstsemester 2019 |
| Angebotsmuster | Jedes 2. Herbstsem. |
| Dozierende | Till Förster (till.foerster@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | West Africa is a region that fascinated many ethnographers because of its extremely high variety in natural, societal and cultural forms. It covers thinly inhabited deserts but also wetlands, intensively cultivated, as well as rapidly growing urban centres like Dakar, Abidjan and Lagos. Since the middle ages, West Africa has been the heartland of mighty kingdoms while other societies resisted any centralized rule. Today, the continuity of old types of social organisation and culture merges with modern and post-colonial life, thus creating new societal fields. This course - part lecture and part seminar, part conceptual and part ethnographic - provides an introduction to the societies of West Africa and situates them in relation to the natural environment and historical and contemporary developments in economics, politics and culture. It later focuses on two or three societies in each major region, emphasising particular societal and cultural forms and addresses specific questions of research. The course will also survey principal changes in institutions and ideologies which have taken place in rural and in urban communities up to the present. Ethnographic descriptions will also draw on the modern African nations and post-colonial societies: Senegal, Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast and Mali. |
| Bemerkungen | Communication in the course will be in English if necessary |
| Teilnahmebedingungen | No particular requirements |
| Unterrichtssprache | Deutsch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | kein spezifischer Einsatz |
| HörerInnen willkommen |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
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Keine Einzeltermine verfügbar, bitte informieren Sie sich direkt bei den Dozierenden.
| Module |
Modul: Basics: Social Anthropology (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul: Einführung in die Ethnographie einer Grossregion (Bachelor Studienfach: Ethnologie) |
| Leistungsüberprüfung | Leistungsnachweis |
| Hinweise zur Leistungsüberprüfung | Exam at the end of the semester. |
| An-/Abmeldung zur Leistungsüberprüfung | Anmelden: Belegen; Abmelden: nicht erforderlich |
| Wiederholungsprüfung | eine Wiederholung, Wiederholung zählt |
| Skala | Pass / Fail |
| Wiederholtes Belegen | beliebig wiederholbar |
| Zuständige Fakultät | Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Anbietende Organisationseinheit | Fachbereich Ethnologie |