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| Semester | Frühjahrsemester 2024 |
| Angebotsmuster | Jedes Frühjahrsem. |
| Dozierende | George-Paul Meiu (gp.meiu@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | This course examines anthropology’s relation to alterity and sociality in different historical contexts, in the colony and in the metropole, in the socialist East and the capitalist West, at the center and at the periphery. Anthropology has long been seen as a quintessentially “Western discourse” problematically aligned with the ideologies of power. Rather than approach the discipline as a unified whole, however, this course revisits key moments, figures, and events that demonstrate how important anthropological concepts emerged as expressions of—and reflections upon—complex historical conjunctures. Various attempts to conceptualize society, culture, race, hegemony, value, commodity fetishism, the state, ontology, and alterity have resonated with, but also beyond, their immediate contexts. Informed by a desire to de-center “the canon” (without losing sight, that is, of the effects of its normative centrality) or to decolonize the discipline, we pursue a set of theoretical and ethnographic detours through and around key anthropological moments and concepts, all along seeking to understand how idioms, objects, and events of theoretical and ethnographic attachment shape and are shaped by historical context. |
| Lernziele | Students are encouraged to think anthropologically about anthropology, its concepts, practices, potentialities, and futures. This presupposes not only reading texts closely but also identifying how the assigned readings resonate with one another; what potentials they have for understanding the present and anticipating the future; and how such potentials are to be pursued. |
| Literatur | Moberg, Mark. 2019. Engaging Anthropological Theory: A Social and Political History. New York: Routledge Pandian, Anand. 2019. A Possible Anthropology: Methods for Uneasy Times. Durham: Duke University Press. |
| Teilnahmebedingungen | Keine Vorkenntnisse erforderlich. |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | kein spezifischer Einsatz |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
|---|---|---|---|
| wöchentlich | Dienstag | 14.15-16.00 | Bernoullistrasse 30/32, kleiner Hörsaal 120 |
| Module |
Modul: Basics: Social Anthropology (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul: Erweiterung Methodenkenntnisse BA (Bachelor Studienfach: Religionswissenschaft) Modul: Fields: Knowledge Production and Transfer (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul: Gesellschaft in Osteuropa (Bachelor Studienfach: Osteuropäische Kulturen) Modul: Gesellschaft in Osteuropa (Bachelor Studiengang: Osteuropa-Studien) Modul: Grundlagen der Ethnologie (Bachelor Studienfach: Ethnologie) Modul: Methoden der Nahoststudien und der Gesellschaftswissenschaften (Bachelor Studienfach: Nahoststudien) |
| Leistungsüberprüfung | Leistungsnachweis |
| An-/Abmeldung zur Leistungsüberprüfung | Anmelden: Belegen; Abmelden: nicht erforderlich |
| Wiederholungsprüfung | eine Wiederholung, Wiederholung zählt |
| Skala | 1-6 0,5 |
| Wiederholtes Belegen | beliebig wiederholbar |
| Zuständige Fakultät | Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Anbietende Organisationseinheit | Fachbereich Ethnologie |