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| Semester | spring semester 2019 |
| Course frequency | Once only |
| Lecturers | Cassandra Thiesen-Mark (cassandra.mark@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
| Content | This course will explore debates in the historiography of Africa concerning its integration into (and disintegration from) global markets through the themes of cotton, cloths and clothing. Students will learn about the importance of Africa to the imperial cotton production agenda. What were the survival tactics of indigenous producers? Then, we will confront the “colonial gaze” through a discussion of naked versus being clothed during the colonial period and leading into the era of independence. For the postcolonial period, we will take into account Africa's place between Europe and America’s second-hand donations and products made in China. Lastly, African designers will have their say on local fashions today. |
| Bibliography | Readings include: Robins, Jonathan. Cotton and Race Across the Atlantic: Britain, Africa, and America, 1900-1920. University of Rochester Press, 2016. Byfield, Judith A. The Bluest Hands: A Social and Economic History of Women Dyers in Abeokuta (Nigeria), 1890-1940. Portsmouth, NH; Oxford [England]; Cape Town: Heinemann; J. Currey ; D. Philip, 2002. Comaroff, J., and J.L. Comaroff. "Chapter 5: The Empire's Old Clothes: fashioning the colonial subject." In Of Revelation and Revolution: The Dialectics of Modernity on a South African Frontier, 218-72: University of Chicago Press, 1997. Ebbe Prag, “Mama Benz in Trouble: Networks, the State, and Fashion Wars in the Beninese Textile Market,” African Studies Review 56 no. 3 (2013): 101-121. Gott, Suzanne. "Asante Hightimers and the Fashionable Display of Women's Wealth in Contemporary Ghana." Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture 13, no. 2(2009): 141-76. |
| Admission requirements | Studierende der Geschichte und der African Studies, sowie Studierende weiterer Studienfächer, in deren Module die Übung verknüpft ist. Bei Überbelegung wird die Teilnehmerzahl beschränkt. In diesem Fall werden Studierende der Geschichte bevorzugt zugelassen. |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Use of digital media | No specific media used |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
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No dates available. Please contact the lecturer.
| Modules |
Modul: Archive / Medien / Theorien (Bachelor's degree subject: History) Modul: Areas: Afrika (Master's degree program: European History in Global Perspective) Modul: Areas: aussereuropäisch (Master's degree program: European History (Start of studies before 01.08.2018)) Modul: Fields: Environment and Development (Master's degree program: African Studies) Modul: Methoden - Reflexion - Theorien: Bilder - Medien - Repräsentationen (Master's degree program: European History (Start of studies before 01.08.2018)) Modul: Profil: Geschichte Afrikas (Master's degree program: European History (Start of studies before 01.08.2018)) Modul: Theorie (Master's degree subject: History) |
| Assessment format | continuous assessment |
| Assessment details | Aktive Teilnahme. |
| Assessment registration/deregistration | Reg.: course registration; dereg.: not required |
| Repeat examination | no repeat examination |
| Scale | Pass / Fail |
| Repeated registration | no repetition |
| Responsible faculty | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Offered by | Departement Geschichte |