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63864-01 - Seminar: Female West Africa: Ethnographic Encounters (3 KP)
| Semester | Frühjahrsemester 2022 |
| Angebotsmuster | einmalig |
| Dozierende | Michelle Engeler (michelle.engeler@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | This seminar will explore West Africa through the glasses of female anthropologists; how do they work the terrain, what challenges do they face and which topics do they emphasize while discussing the extremely high variety of natural, societal and cultural forms characterizing West Africa? 'Female West Africa' is thus a seminar that creates encounters with women working during different times, coming from different generations, having various regional backgrounds and discussing, amongst others, also past and present lives and experiences of the very often mis-/underrepresented female population of West Africa. Besides analyzing and rewarding female ethnographies/anthropologists, this seminar also critically engages in discussing ethnographic writing, feminist anthropology and gender equality/diversity in the social sciences. Finally, participants will further train their scientific reading and writing skills. Students who write a seminar paper may also include qualitative data collected through interviews with key anthropological authors. |
| Lernziele | Participants will critically read and analyze ethnographies written by female anthropologists, learn about women living and shaping West Africa and discuss ethnographic writing, gender equality and diversity in the social sciences. In addition, they will further train their scientific working skills (reading, writing, data collection and interpretation,...). |
| Literatur | Introduction: - Jackson, Ruth & Kelly, Max (eds.) 2019. Women researching in Africa: the impact of gender, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. - Neuilly, Melanie-Angela & Muhammad, Bahiyyah M. (eds.) 2019. Mothering from the field: the impact of motherhood on site-based research, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. Possible Case Studies: - Alber, Erdmute 2018. Transfers of belonging. Child fostering in West Africa in the 20th century, Leiden, Boston, Brill. - Ammann, Carole 2020. Women, agency, and the state in Guinea. Silent politics, London, Routledge. - Botta Somparé, Ester 2015. Education familiale et scolaire dans une société pastorale guinéenne, Paris, L’Harmattan. - Dankwa, Serena Owusua 2021. Knowing women: same-sex intimacy, gender, and identity in postcolonial Ghana, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. - Dessertine, Anna 2021. À quoi tient le village: espaces et mobilités en pays malinké (Guinée), Nanterre, Société d’Ethnologie. - Faure, Armelle 2020. Révolution et sorcellerie. Une ethnologue au Burkina Faso, Bordeaux, Elytis - Hannaford, Dinah 2017. Marriage without borders: transnational spouses in neoliberal Senegal, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press. - Lentz, Carola 2013. Land, mobility, and belonging in West Africa: natives and strangers, Indiana University Press. - Mazzocchetti, Jacinthe 2009. Être étudiant à Ouagadougou. Imaginaire et précarité, Paris, Karthala. - Roth, Claudia 1994. Und sie sind stolz. Zur Ökonomie der Liebe. Die Geschlechtertrennung bei den Zara in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, Frankfurt a. M., Brandes und Apsel. - Steuer, Noemi 2012. Krankheit und Ehre. Über HIV und soziale Anerkennung in Mali, Bielefeld, transcript. |
| Bemerkungen | The readyness to read and discuss publications written in French is a huge advantage for this course. |
| Teilnahmevoraussetzungen | The number of participants is limited to 25 people. The places are assigned according to date of enrollment and subject of study. Priority will be given to the subjects listed under "modules". |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | kein spezifischer Einsatz |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
|---|---|---|---|
| wöchentlich | Donnerstag | 10.15-12.00 | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
Einzeltermine
| Datum | Zeit | Raum |
|---|---|---|
| Donnerstag 24.02.2022 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Donnerstag 03.03.2022 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Donnerstag 10.03.2022 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Fasnachtsferien |
| Donnerstag 17.03.2022 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Donnerstag 24.03.2022 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Donnerstag 31.03.2022 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Donnerstag 07.04.2022 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Donnerstag 14.04.2022 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Ostern |
| Donnerstag 21.04.2022 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Donnerstag 28.04.2022 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Donnerstag 05.05.2022 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Donnerstag 12.05.2022 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Donnerstag 19.05.2022 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Donnerstag 26.05.2022 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Auffahrt |
| Donnerstag 02.06.2022 | 10.15-12.00 Uhr | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Module |
Modul: Ethnographien (Bachelor Studienfach: Ethnologie) Modul: Fields: Knowledge Production and Transfer (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul: Fields: Public Health and Social Life (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul: Themenfelder der Geschlechterforschung (Bachelor Studienfach: Geschlechterforschung) Modul: Theory and General Anthropology (Master Studienfach: Anthropology) Modul: Vertiefung Themenfelder der Geschlechterforschung (Master Studienfach: Geschlechterforschung) Modul: Wissenschaftliche Vertiefung in der Ethnologie: Ethnographien (Bachelor Studienfach: Ethnologie) |
| Prüfung | Lehrveranst.-begleitend |
| Hinweise zur Prüfung | Preparatory reading, active participation, discussion of key texts and oral/written contributions based on selected ethnographic case studies will be mandatory for all participants. If you additionally would like to write a seminar paper in this course, please contact Michelle Engeler before the beginning of the semester (michelle.engeler@unibas.ch). |
| 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 |