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240013 VO BM2 New Critical Perspectives in Social and Cultural Anthropology (2023W)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 24 - Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie

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Sprache: Englisch

Prüfungstermine

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

  • Dienstag 03.10. 16:45 - 20:00 Hörsaal A, NIG 4.Stock
  • Dienstag 10.10. 16:45 - 20:00 Hörsaal A, NIG 4.Stock
  • Dienstag 17.10. 16:45 - 20:00 Hörsaal A, NIG 4.Stock
  • Dienstag 31.10. 16:45 - 20:00 Hörsaal A, NIG 4.Stock
  • Dienstag 07.11. 16:45 - 20:00 Hörsaal A, NIG 4.Stock
  • Dienstag 14.11. 16:45 - 20:00 Hörsaal A, NIG 4.Stock
  • Dienstag 21.11. 16:45 - 20:00 Hörsaal A, NIG 4.Stock

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

In this lecture, students will be introduced to newer critical perspectives in the discipline of Anthropology. They will learn to understand the critical, reflexive and collaborative ethos that underlies anthropological research through exemplary theories, topics and approaches. A strong focus lies on the ethical and political challenges that arise from the discipline's past, and on the ways through which anthropologists have grappled with these challenges. By paying particular attention to the contributions of feminist, anti-racist and post-colonial positions to the understanding of social and cultural anthropology, students will be able to better understand anthropological knowledge production and reflect on their own positionality.

Method:
The course is a lecture; however, student participation will be encouraged and class activities will take place to allow active learning. To enhance class discussions, students need to read/ prepare the material meant for each session.

As the course engages with feminist, anti-racist, and decolonial forms of knowledge production, class material will not be limited to academic publications. Students will also engage with artistic expressions (visual and performative arts, music, poetry, plastic arts, popular art expressions) as forms of legitimate and relevant knowledge

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

There will be a written exam at the end of the semester that will cover all topics addressed during the sessions. The format will be opened ended questions. The exam will be open-book, so students can consult their notes and the readings and materials used during the semester. The first date for the exam is 24th November 2023.

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

The course will be taught in English and the examination will also be in English.
For a positive grade, 51 % is required
90-100 %= 1
77-89 %= 2
64-76 %= 3
51-63 %= 4
0-50 % = 5

Prüfungsstoff

Written examination including all course readings

Literatur

Reading list (tentative):
Abu-Lughod L. 1991. Writing against culture. In Recapturing Anthropology: Working in the Present, ed. RG Fox, pp. 137–62. Santa Fe, NM: Sch. Am. Res. Press
Ahmed, S., 2007. A phenomenology of whiteness. Feminist theory, 8(2), pp.149-168.
Anzaldúa, G., 1987. Borderlands/la frontera. The New Mestiza. Aunt Luke Books.
Behar, Ruth. 1996. The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart. Boston: Beacon Press.
Csordas, Thomas J. 1990. ‘Embodiment as a Paradigm for Anthropology’. Ethos 18, no. 1: 5–47.
Asad, Talal. 1979. ‘Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter’. In The Politics of Anthropology, 85–94. De Gruyter Mouton.
Hooks, B., 2009. Reel to real: race, class and sex at the movies. Routledge.
Haraway, D 1988 Situated Knowledges: The science question in feminism and the
privileged of partial perspective. Feminist studies 14 (3): 575-599
Hazel, Y.P., 2014. Sensing difference: Whiteness, national identity, and belonging in the Dominican Republic. Transforming Anthropology, 22(2), pp.78-91.
Fals-Borda, O., 1992. Evolution and convergence in participatory action research. A world of communities: Participatory research perspectives, pp.14-19.
Fanon, F., 2008. Black skin, white masks. Grove press.
Gupta, A. and Stoolman, J., 2022. Decolonizing US anthropology. American Anthropologist.
Icaza, R., 2023. Tanteando en la oscuridad:: Decolonial Feminist Horizons.
Mahmud, Lilith. ‘Feminism in the House of Anthropology’. Annual Review of Anthropology 50, no. 1 (2021): 345–61. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-101819-110218.
Lugones, M., 2007. Heterosexualism and the colonial/modern gender system. Hypatia, 22(1), pp.186-219.
Olarte-Sierra, M.F., 2019. Of flesh and bone: emotional and affective ethnography of forensic anthropology practices amidst an armed conflict. Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society, 2(1), pp.77-93.
Walsh, C. and Mignolo, W., 2018. On decoloniality. DW Mignolo, & EC Walsh, On Decoloniality Concepts, Analysis, Praxis, 304.

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Letzte Änderung: Di 13.02.2024 15:26