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41852-01 - Kurs mit Prüfung: Introduction into the Ethnography of Southern Africa (4 KP)
| Semester | Herbstsemester 2015 |
| Angebotsmuster | unregelmässig |
| Dozierende |
Barbara Heer (barbara.heer@unibas.ch)
Elisio Macamo (elisio.macamo@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | This course introduces students to the ethnography of Southern Africa, a region that has made a unique contribution to social anthropology and has been profoundly shaped by settler colonialism and its legacy of land conflicts as well as mining capital and its disruptive effect on local forms of social organization. The course will be divided into four main parts. The first part will offer a historical overview of the region with a focus on relevant pre-colonial societies and global exchanges. The second part will identify key features of the region that attracted anthropological interest, namely the existence of hunter and gatherer societies, the integration of local societies into specific forms of the cash economy and wage labour as well as the emergence and growth of indigenous religious forms in articulation with European Mission Societies. This will pave the way for the third part which will focus on important anthropological schools that emerged from the region, namely Structural-Functionalism (Radcliffe-Brown in Cape Town) and the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute in Zambia. The final part will deal with current issues in the study of the region, i.e. conflicts over land, xenophobia, political stability and religion. The course will consist of a lecture series which will be under the responsibility of Elísio Macamo. The aim will be to introduce key ideas and facts which will subsequently, under the guidance of Barbara Heer, be translated into skills in a seminar format that will apply anthropological knowledge to specific issues in detail. These will consist of individual anthropologists, schools of thought, specific debates, etc. |
| Lernziele | Participants are expected to acquire general knowledge of Southern Africa from an anthropological perspective entailing an understanding of the role of anthropology in constituting the knowledge of the peoples and their natural environments and competence in articulating important anthropologists, research programmes and debates in social anthropology with Southern Africa. |
| Weblink | https://ethnologie.unibas.ch/studies/cou |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | kein spezifischer Einsatz |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
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| Module |
Modul Basics: Social Anthropology (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul Einführung in die Ethnographie einer Grossregion (Bachelor Studienfach: Ethnologie) Modul Ethnographie (Bachelor Studienfach: Ethnologie (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Globalisierung, Kultur und Internationale Entwicklung (Bachelor Studienfach: Geographie (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2015)) Modul Introduction to Interdisciplinary African Studies (Master Studiengang: African Studies (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Vertiefung Landschaft und Umwelt (Bachelor Studienfach: Geographie) |
| Prüfung | Leistungsnachweis |
| An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung | Anmelden: Belegen; Abmelden: nicht erforderlich |
| Wiederholungsprüfung | eine Wiederholung, Wiederholung zählt |
| Skala | Pass / Fail |
| Belegen bei Nichtbestehen | beliebig wiederholbar |
| Zuständige Fakultät | Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Anbietende Organisationseinheit | Fachbereich Ethnologie |