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| Semester | Herbstsemester 2017 |
| Angebotsmuster | einmalig |
| Dozierende |
Till Förster (till.foerster@unibas.ch)
Rita Kesselring (rita.kesselring@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | The core of our MA Anthropology in Basel is a thorough training in ethnographic methodology through a partly subsidized and guided fieldtrip. During this course (two terms, six weeks of fieldwork in Zambia), MA students formulate their individual research proposal and subsequently conduct research under the supervision of Dr Rita Kesselring. You will learn how to: • formulate your own research questions in line with your interest and job aspirations, supervised by an experienced anthropologist; • apply ethnographic methods during a field trip of six weeks in a rapidly urbanizing and booming copper mining region in the Northwestern Province of Zambia; • improve your language and communication skills across milieus and contexts; • analyse your collected data, present the findings in an academic context and write a final field report; • acquire some necessary skills for a possible PhD project. The general theme of the field course is Social Change within which the individual research projects are loosely situated. The course focuses on the Solwezi Region in the Northwestern Province of Zambia, a previously rural and since ten years rapidly urbanizing area due to the (re)opening of three large-scale copper mines. Participants are free to conduct their research in another region in Zambia, though. The field trip takes place between the two terms in January and February 2018. You can complete your MA by 2019. Come to our first meeting on Wednesday, 24 May 2017, from 12.30 to 1.30pm, in the seminar room at Institute of Social Anthropology (Münsterplatz 19, 4051 Basel). For further information, please contact Rita Kesselring (rita.kesselring@unibas.ch). |
| Lernziele | You will learn how to: • formulate your own research questions in line with your interest and job aspirations, supervised by an experienced anthropologist; • apply ethnographic methods during a field trip of six weeks in a rapidly urbanizing and booming copper mining region in the Northwestern Province of Zambia; • improve your language and communication skills across milieus and contexts; • analyse your collected data, present the findings in an academic context and write a final field report; • acquire some necessary skills for a possible PhD project. |
| Literatur | Gewald, Jan-Bart, Marja Hinfelaar, and Giacomo Macola, eds. 2008. One Zambia, Many Histories: Towards a History of Post-Colonial Zambia. Vol. II. Afrika-Studiecentrum Series. Leiden: BRILL. (https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/handle/1887/20391) Gluckman, Max. 1960. ‘Tribalism in Modern British Central Africa’. Cahiers D’études Africaines 1 (1): 55–70. (http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4390746.pdf) Kesselring, Rita. 2017, forthcoming. The Electricity Crisis in Zambia: blackouts and sociality in new mining towns. Energy Research and Social Science. Special Issue Exploring the Anthropology of Energy: Ethnography, Energy and Ethics. Negi, Rohit. 2014. ‘“Solwezi Mabanga”: Ambivalent Developments on Zambia’s New Mining Frontier’. Journal of Southern African Studies 40 (5): 999–1013. Powdermaker, Hortense. 1962. Copper Town: Changing Africa, the Human Situation on the Rhodesian Copperbelt. New York: Harper and Row. |
| Bemerkungen | Come to our first meeting on Wednesday, 24 May 2017, from 12.30 to 1.30pm, in the seminar room at Institute of Social Anthropology (Münsterplatz 19, 4051 Basel). For further information, please contact Rita Kesselring (rita.kesselring@unibas.ch). |
| Teilnahmebedingungen | Die Teilnehmerzahl ist auf 10 Personen beschränkt. Die Plätze werden nach Anmeldedatum und Studienfachzugehörigkeit vergeben. Vorrang haben die Studierenden der unter "Module" aufgelisteten Studienfächer/-gänge. |
| Anmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung | Come to our first meeting on Wednesday, 24 May 2017, from 12.30 to 1.30pm, in the seminar room at Institute of Social Anthropology (Münsterplatz 19, 4051 Basel). If you can't attend but are planning to join the course, please write to Rita.Kesselring@unibas.ch |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | kein spezifischer Einsatz |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
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Keine Einzeltermine verfügbar, bitte informieren Sie sich direkt bei den Dozierenden.
| Module |
Modul Applied African Studies (Master Studiengang: African Studies (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Ethnographic Research with Field Trip (Master Studienfach: Anthropology) Modul Ethnologische Praxis (Master Studienfach: Ethnologie (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Interdisciplinary and Applied African Studies (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul: Urbanisms from the South (Master Studiengang: Critical Urbanisms) |
| Leistungsüberprüfung | Lehrveranst.-begleitend |
| 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 | Departement Gesellschaftswissenschaften |