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| Semester | Herbstsemester 2008 |
| Angebotsmuster | unregelmässig |
| Dozierende | Till Förster (till.foerster@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | British social anthropology was perhaps the strongest intellectual tradition in the history of anthropology. As a distinct disciplinary strand in anthropological thinking, it emerged after World War I and with the publication of Bronislaw Malinowskis Argonauts of the Western Pacific in 1922. Though its institutional basis was and remained for a long time fairly small, it soon set standards of empirical enquiry, namely long term fieldwork and participant observation. The two were not merely methodological tools but served as a focus of disciplinary identity that most anthropologists worldwide still refer to today. On the side of regional specialization, the coherence of British social anthropology is also obvious. British and British trained anthropologists mainly worked in Africa, Oceania and, less frequently, in South Asia, but almost always in (former) British colonies. At the theoretical level, British social anthropology went through a series of sometimes divergent orientations which, however, all rotated around the same set of intellectual problems: the economic and social organization of segmentary societies, the understanding of power and domination in stateless societies, together with law and conflict resolution, the rationality of religious experience, and since the 1950s the contemporary transformation of so-called indigenous societies. Malinowskis functionalism, established clearly only in his later publications, was the first step towards a theoretical paradigm that broke away from the interest of the former, evolutionary anthropologists in the universal history of mankind. But functionalism soon became the background to other strands, in particular structural functionalism and later to what became known as the Manchester School. The course outlines the history of British social anthropology by an examination of its major scholars, their works and how they influenced the development of anthropology worldwide. |
| Lernziele | A learned understanding of an influential intellectual movement in anthropology. Knowledge of major scholars in anthropology and their works. Reflection on processes of disciplinary closure. |
| Literatur | Goody, Jack, The Expansive Moment: Anthropology in Britain and Africa 19181970. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Kuper, Adam, Anthropology and Anthropologists. London: Routledge, 1996 [3rd ed.] Stocking, George (ed.), Functionalism Historicized: Essays on British Social Anthropology. Madison, Wisc.: 1984. |
| Bemerkungen | Full seminar papers are due by December 31, 2008. |
| Weblink | http://www.unibas-ethno.ch/studium/lehrv |
| Teilnahmebedingungen | Studierende im BA erst ab dem 5. Semester. Die Teilnehmerzahl ist beschränkt, die Plätze werden nach Anmeldedatum und Studienfachzugehörigkeit vergeben. Vorrang haben die Studierenden der Ethnologie und African Studies. Die Anmeldung erfolgt über ISIS. |
| Anmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung | http://www.isis.unibas.ch |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | kein spezifischer Einsatz |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
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| Module |
Modul Fachgeschichte der Ethnologie (Master Studienfach: Ethnologie) Modul Social Anthropology (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul Theorie der Ethnologie (Master Studienfach: Ethnologie) Modul Wissenschaftliche Vertiefung (Bachelor Studienfach: Ethnologie) |
| Leistungsüberprüfung | Lehrveranst.-begleitend |
| Hinweise zur Leistungsüberprüfung | All participants have to do a short presentation of 10 to 15 min. on one major publication. |
| 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 | Ethnologisches Seminar |