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76415-01 - Proseminar: Order, Disorder, Chaos: Anthropological Perspectives (3 KP)
| Semester | Herbstsemester 2025 |
| Angebotsmuster | unregelmässig |
| Dozierende | George-Paul Meiu (gp.meiu@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | Order may refer to the principles by which we tidy a space, organize objects, systematize ideas, or structure time. It can also refer to social, juridical, political, and economic entities and their conditions of cohesion and stability. We speak, for example, of “indigenous order,” “state order,” or the “global world order” as much as we speak of “political disorder” or“social chaos.” Order and its imagined opposites—disorder, chaos, mess—are central to power and authority, personhood and relatedness, legal and religious regimes. But what counts as order is never a given. It is rather entailed in concrete efforts to know, represent, and organize bodies, objects, and ideas so that, from particular vantage points, their conjoining may appear to constitute an orderly totality. Pursuing different kinds of order—seeking to imagine, name, and craft worlds that appear orderly—may offer us a relative sense of certainty, clarity, and security, especially in times of turbulent political-economic transformations. Here, political campaigns, ritual performances, or consumption practices may promise us the “return” of a certain order. But what counts as order and disorder, coherence and chaos is ever shifting in complex fields of contestation. New forms of governance and value production, political ideas of coloniality, indigeneity, or nationalism, and various claims to rights, recognition, and resources, all posit order and disorder in different ways. In this proseminar students will read a set of ethnographic texts think critically about order, disorder, chaos in different contexts. |
| Lernziele | In this proseminar students will read a set of ethnographic texts in order to think critically about order, disorder, chaos in different contexts. In the process, students will become familiar with key anthropological concepts and approaches. |
| Literatur | Among other texts, students will read excerpts of the following: Douglas, Mary. 1966. Purity and Danger: An Analysis of the Concept of Pollution and Taboo. London: Routledge. Mosko, Mark S. & Fred Damon. 2005. On the Order of Chaos: Social Anthropology and the Science of Chaos. New York: Berghahn Books. Simpson, Audra. 2014. Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across Borders of Settler States. Durham: Duke University Press. Turner, Victor. 1969. The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure. New York: Aldine de Gruyter. Kauanui, J. Kēhaulani. 2018. Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty: Land, Sex, and the Colonial Politics of State Nationalism. Durham: Duke University Press. |
| Teilnahmevoraussetzungen | The number of participants is limited to 25 students. 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 | Montag | 16.15-18.00 | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
Einzeltermine
| Datum | Zeit | Raum |
|---|---|---|
| Montag 15.09.2025 | 16.15-18.00 Uhr | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Montag 22.09.2025 | 16.15-18.00 Uhr | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Montag 29.09.2025 | 16.15-18.00 Uhr | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Montag 06.10.2025 | 16.15-18.00 Uhr | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Montag 13.10.2025 | 16.15-18.00 Uhr | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Montag 20.10.2025 | 16.15-18.00 Uhr | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Montag 27.10.2025 | 16.15-18.00 Uhr | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Montag 03.11.2025 | 16.15-18.00 Uhr | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Montag 10.11.2025 | 16.15-18.00 Uhr | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Montag 17.11.2025 | 16.15-18.00 Uhr | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Montag 24.11.2025 | 16.15-18.00 Uhr | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Montag 01.12.2025 | 16.15-18.00 Uhr | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Montag 08.12.2025 | 16.15-18.00 Uhr | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Montag 15.12.2025 | 16.15-18.00 Uhr | Ethnologie, grosser Seminarraum |
| Module |
Modul: Ethnographien (Bachelor Studienfach: Ethnologie) |
| Prüfung | Lehrveranst.-begleitend |
| An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung | Anmelden: Belegen; Abmelden: nicht erforderlich |
| Wiederholungsprüfung | keine Wiederholungsprüfung |
| Skala | Pass / Fail |
| Belegen bei Nichtbestehen | beliebig wiederholbar |
| Zuständige Fakultät | Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Anbietende Organisationseinheit | Fachbereich Ethnologie |