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| Semester | Frühjahrsemester 2018 |
| Angebotsmuster | unregelmässig |
| Dozierende | Philipp Schweighauser (ph.schweighauser@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | This course invites MA students, PhD candidates, and post-docs to engage with current research concerning the intersections between literature, literary studies, and cultural anthropology. We will be particularly concerned with the question of what difference it makes whether cultural others are represented in ethnographic prose or literary language. At the same time, we will ask ourselves to what extent ethnographic work by three of the pre-eminent anthropologists of the first half of the twentieth century (Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Edward Sapir) is shaped by contemporaneous literary, cultural, and artistic discourses (e.g. modernism and primitivism). This is an especially pertinent question with these anthropologists since, together, they have published over 900 poems, some of which we will also consider in the course of the term. This course is related to the SNSF-funded research project "Of Cultural, Poetic, and Medial Alterity: The Scholarship, Poetry, Photographs, and Films of Edward Sapir, Ruth Fulton Benedict, and Margaret Mead" (see https://sbm.unibas.ch/). |
| Lernziele | Participants learn to bring three modes of representation and fields of knowledge together: literature, literary studies, and cultural anthropology. |
| Literatur | The following two texts need to be read before the beginning of the term: 1) Ruth Benedict, "An Anthropologist at Work: Writings of Ruth Benedict." Ed. Margaret Mead. (Westport: Greenwood P, 1977) 2) Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, "Balinese Character: A Photographic Analysis" (New York: New York Academy of Sciences, 1942). Note: "Balinese Character" is available here: http://monoskop.org/images/8/8d/Bateson_Gregory_Mead_Margaret_Balinese_Character_A_Photographic_Analysis.pdf. Additional texts are made available on ADAM. |
| Weblink | ADAM |
| Teilnahmebedingungen | This MA course is a research seminar for MA students, PhD candidates, and post-docs. |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | Online-Angebot obligatorisch |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
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| Module |
Modul Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies (Master Studienfach: Englisch) Modul English & American Literature (Master Studienfach: Englisch (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Literatur- und kulturwissenschaftliche Forschung (Master Studiengang: Literaturwissenschaft) Modul Literaturtheorie (Master Studiengang: Literaturwissenschaft) Modul Research in Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies (Master Studienfach: Englisch) |
| Leistungsüberprüfung | Lehrveranst.-begleitend |
| Hinweise zur Leistungsüberprüfung | no more than two absences, weekly readings, active participation |
| An-/Abmeldung zur Leistungsüberprüfung | Anmelden: Belegen; Abmelden: nicht erforderlich |
| Wiederholungsprüfung | keine Wiederholungsprüfung |
| Skala | Pass / Fail |
| Wiederholtes Belegen | beliebig wiederholbar |
| Zuständige Fakultät | Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Anbietende Organisationseinheit | Fachbereich Englische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft |