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34975-01 - Seminar: The Anthropology of Memory (3 KP)
| Semester | Herbstsemester 2013 |
| Angebotsmuster | einmalig |
| Dozierende | Rita Kesselring (rita.kesselring@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | In recent years, the anthropology of memory has become an attractive special discipline in anthropology, drawing heavily on history, literature studies and more specialized fields such as Holocaust studies or activists discourses of human rights. As part of the post-modernist attempt to deconstruct much of how the social sciences have approached their subject, the interest in reliability of information was replaced by a reliance on memory. Memory, it is argued, is close to experience. It is, in other words, the lived past. The notion of memory is thus not only used for the remembrance of past events but also how history is lived, how history persists and how society reproduces itself. Furthermore, social scientists have broadly come to the consensus that memory is nothing static, it is made (constructed), re-made, and certainly contested. This fluidity is a problem, however, because is poses several methodological difficulties; and it poses the risk of overextending a concept: what is then the difference between culture and memory, and identity and memory? Scholars also often differentiate between individual and collective memory. But how do they actually relate to one another; and how does one affect the other? Is there something like a societal memory, and how is it transmitted across generations? Studying memory also poses questions that concern social theory more general: How do memories of the past affect present actions? And what has action got to do with (often) pre-predicative memories or societal discourses? |
| Lernziele | Students have a clear and differentiated idea of the anthropological approach to memory, and can put it in context to other - more historical and textual - perspectives on how individuals, groups and a society remember. |
| Literatur | Appadurai, Arjun. 1981. "The past as a scarce resource." Man 16: 201-219. Connerton, Paul. 1989. How Societies Remember. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Fabian, Johannes. 1999. "Remembering the Other: Knowledge and Recognition in the Exploration of Central Africa." Critical Enquiry 26: 49-69. Förster, Till. 2012. Statehood in a Stateless Society: Political Order and Societal Memory in Northern Côte d‘Ivoire. Basel: University of Basel, Institute of Social Anthropology. Geiger, Susan. 1990. What‘s So Feminist About Women‘s Oral History? Journal of Women’s History 2(1): 169-182. Stoller, Paul. 1994. «Embodying Colonial Memories“. American Anthropologist 96(3): 634-648. Werbner, Richard, ed. 1998. Memory and the Postcolony: African Anthropology and the Critique of Power. London: Zed Books. |
| Bemerkungen | strictly only for advanced BA students (5th semester onwards) and all MA students. |
| Weblink | http://www.unibas-ethno.ch/studium/lehrv |
| Teilnahmevoraussetzungen | strictly only for advanced BA students (5th semester onwards) and all MA students. |
| Anmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung | www.isis.unibas.ch; mandatory |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | kein spezifischer Einsatz |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
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| Module |
Modul Fachgeschichte der Ethnologie (Master Studienfach: Ethnologie (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Fields: Governance and Politics (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul Fields: Media and Imagination (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul Sachthematische Fragestellungen der Ethnologie (Bachelor Studienfach: Ethnologie (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Sachthemen der Ethnologie (Master Studienfach: Ethnologie (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Sachthemen der Ethnologie (Bachelor Studienfach: Ethnologie) Modul Social Anthropology (Master Studiengang: African Studies (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Theorie der Ethnologie (Master Studienfach: Ethnologie (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Theory and General Anthropology (Master Studienfach: Anthropology) Modul Wissenschaftliche Vertiefung (Bachelor Studienfach: Ethnologie (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Wissenschaftliche Vertiefung in der Ethnologie: Sachthemen (Bachelor Studienfach: Ethnologie) |
| Prüfung | Lehrveranst.-begleitend |
| Hinweise zur Prüfung | Aktive Teilnahme in Form eines Vortrags + Anwesenheit (max. 3x fehlen). |
| An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung | Anmelden: Belegen; Abmelden: nicht erforderlich |
| Wiederholungsprüfung | keine Wiederholungsprüfung |
| Skala | Pass / Fail |
| Belegen bei Nichtbestehen | nicht wiederholbar |
| Zuständige Fakultät | Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Anbietende Organisationseinheit | Fachbereich Ethnologie |