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| Semester | spring semester 2018 |
| Course frequency | Irregular |
| Lecturers | Brigit Obrist van Eeuwijk (brigit.obrist@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
| Content | Today, adventures like a safari or climbing the Kilimanjaro attract Europeans to visit East Africa. Less known are the long and eventful history, the cultural development and the diverse and rapidly changing everyday life of the people in this region. East Africa is a cradle of mankind. On the Swahili coast of the Indian Ocean, Orient and Occident have met for many centuries, and the secret of the source of the Nile lured famous investigators like David Livingstone. After a relatively short colonial period which was dominated by the British the three countries in the heart of East Africa, Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda have gone their own ways. Nevertheless, in historical times and still today, the cultures and societies of this heartland are intertwined. Moreover, they can only be understood if neighbouring societies in the borderlands with Ruanda and Burundi, the southern part of Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia, the Islands of Zanzibar and Pemba and the Northern parts of Moçambique, Malawi and Zambia are taken into consideration. Our lecture begins with an overview of these diverse developments and then focuses on specific ethnic groups and topics which have received and still receive particular interest in anthropology. The didactic approach is a mixture of lecturing and interactive methods including discussions among all participants and in small groups. |
| Learning objectives | To gain an overview of a region in Africa |
| Weblink | https://ethnologie.unibas.ch/studies/cou |
| Admission requirements | No particular requirements |
| Course application | Keine Anmeldung erforderlich. |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Use of digital media | No specific media used |
| Course auditors welcome |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
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No dates available. Please contact the lecturer.
| Modules |
Modul Basics: Social Anthropology (Master's degree program: African Studies) Modul Einführung in die Ethnographie einer Grossregion (Bachelor's degree subject: Anthropology) Modul Ethnographie (Bachelor's degree subject: Anthropology (Start of studies before 01.08.2013)) Modul Introduction to Interdisciplinary African Studies (Master's degree program: African Studies (Start of studies before 01.08.2013)) |
| Assessment format | record of achievement |
| Assessment registration/deregistration | Reg.: course registration; dereg.: not required |
| Repeat examination | one repetition, repetition counts |
| Scale | Pass / Fail |
| Repeated registration | as often as necessary |
| Responsible faculty | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Offered by | Fachbereich Ethnologie |