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25775-01 - Seminar: The Manchester School and its Impact on Anthropology (3 KP)
| Semester | Herbstsemester 2010 |
| Angebotsmuster | einmalig |
| Dozierende | Till Förster (till.foerster@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | The Manchester School was a seminal moment in the history of modern British social anthropology. It grew out of a comprehensive research project of the Rhodes Livingstone Institute in British Central Africa, now Zambia and Zimbabwe. The formation as a scholarly movement and later as a school, however, was later associated with Manchester where Max Gluckman, its founding father, became the first professor of social anthropology. The work of Gluckman and his students led away from the conventional study of small scale societies as it was practiced by many anthropologists until the middle of the 20th century. The methodological and theoretical innovations first arose out of the study of ruralurban relationships in Central Africa but soon became a novel general research stream in anthropology. It rotated around four fields of enquiry: 1. social problems (e.g. urbanization), 2. processes of articulation (e.g. through migration), 3. interpersonal interaction (e.g. in multiethnic settings), and 4. rhetoric and semantics (e.g. in new religious movements). In all four fields, scholars from Manchester have produced highly original and stimulating works. At a more methodological level, the Extended Case Study anticipated many later developments in social anthropology as, for instance, network and practice analyses. At a theoretical level, the Manchester School questioned the bounded notions of society that, at the time and still for a long time, dominated social anthropology and the social sciences in general. This seminar traces the development of the school from Max Gluckman to his students Victor Turner, Clyde Mitchell, Edmund Leach, Fredrick G. Bailey, Andrew L. Epstein, Elizabeth Colson and their students as Fredrick Barth, Richard Werbner and others. It also introduces into the major methodological and theoretical achievements of the Manchester School. |
| Lernziele | Overview on a chapter in the history of anthropology. Capacity to situate original contributions to the methodology and theory of anthropology in their context. |
| Literatur | Werbner, Richard P., 1984: The Manchester School In South-Central Africa. Annual Review of Anthropology 13:157-85 Evens, T.M.S. / Handelman, Don (eds.), 2006: The Manchester School: practice and ethnographic praxis in anthropology. New York: Berghan Books. A comprehensive reading list will be provided on the website of the Institute of Social Anthropology by the end of June 2010. |
| Weblink | http://www.unibas-ethno.ch/studium/lehrv |
| Teilnahmevoraussetzungen | Studierende im BA erst ab dem 5. Semester. Die Teilnehmerzahl ist beschränkt, die Plätze werden nach Anmeldedatum und Studienfachzugehörigkeit vergeben. Vorrang haben die Studierenden der Ethnologie und African Studies. Die Anmeldung erfolgt über ISIS. |
| Anmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung | http://www.isis.unibas.ch |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | kein spezifischer Einsatz |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
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| Module |
Modul Fachgeschichte der Ethnologie (Master Studienfach: Ethnologie) Modul Sachthematische Fragestellungen der Ethnologie (Bachelor Studienfach: Ethnologie) Modul Social Anthropology (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul Wissenschaftliche Vertiefung (Bachelor Studienfach: Ethnologie) |
| Prüfung | Lehrveranst.-begleitend |
| Hinweise zur Prüfung | The students are expected to write a short essay of 4 to 5 pages on one of the books discussed in the seminar and to submit it one week before their presentation. Full papers are due by December 31, 2010. |
| 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 | Ethnologisches Seminar |