Universität Wien

240523 SE Selling/Consuming Ethnicity - Material culture in the context of anthropological debates (P4) (2017S)

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

Participation at first session is obligatory!
Moodle

An/Abmeldung

Hinweis: Ihr Anmeldezeitpunkt innerhalb der Frist hat keine Auswirkungen auf die Platzvergabe (kein "first come, first served").

Details

max. 40 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

  • Mittwoch 29.03. 09:00 - 13:00 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
  • Mittwoch 26.04. 09:00 - 13:00 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
  • Mittwoch 10.05. 09:00 - 13:00 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
  • Mittwoch 31.05. 09:00 - 13:00 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
  • Mittwoch 14.06. 09:00 - 13:00 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
  • Mittwoch 21.06. 09:00 - 13:00 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

The seminar deals with the analisis of the commercialization of authenticity and ethnicity, which is essential and indispensable to understand (urban) societies in the context of material culture from a contemporary anthropological perspective. In the seminar, theoretical anthropological approaches will be discussed and linked to the collected fieldwork data of the participating students.

The course introduces anthropological theory and practice about material culture and consumption in urban contexts. The students are enabled to identify and analyse research fields of material culture studies and consumption anthropology through studying anthropological texts and doing fieldwork in the city. Processes of appreciation and devaluation of consumer practices are shown as integral part of emphasizing differences in urban societies. The importance of materiality in urban contexts will become unveiled on different social levels and ranks.

The methodology of the course includes:
+ short input sequences
+ presentation of documentations and videos
+ discussion of anthropological texts, text & film analysis
+ topical working groups with particular assignments (e.g. fieldwork, interviews, text/material analysis)
+ all steps supported by blended learning (Moodle)

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

+ adequate attandance
+ individual quality of participation
+ written term paper (to be handed in until 31st of march 2017 latest)

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

Grading criteria:
+ adequate course participation (attendance) (20%)
+ quality of course participation (30%)
+ qualitiy of term paper (50%)

Prüfungsstoff

Literatur

BÖNISCH-BREDNICH, Brigitte (2010) (Hrg.) Local lives. Migration and the politics of place, Burlington, VT, Ashgate.
MILLER, Daniel. (ed.). 2002. Consumption: critical concepts in the social sciences. Volumes 1-4. London, Routledge.
MILLER, Daniel. 2008. The comfort of things. Cambridge [u.a.], Polity.
DASTON, Lorraine. (ed.) 2004. Things that talk: object lessons from art and science. New York, NY, Zone Books.
EDWARDS, Elizabeth/ GOSDEN, Chris/ PHILLIPS, Ruth B. (2006). “Introduction” In: EDWARDS, Elizabeth et al. (eds.), Sensible Objects. Colonialism, Museums and Material Culture. Oxford & New York/ Berg Publishers: 1-31.
GRAVES-BROWN, Paul (2000). “Introduction” In: ders. (ed.), Matter, Materiality and Modern Culture. London & New York, Routledge: 1-9.
KALTMEIER, Olaf (2011) (Hrg.) Selling Ethnicity – Urban Cultural Politics in the Americas. Burlington, VT, Ashgate.
KOPYTOFF, Igor (2001). “The Cultural Biography of Things: Commoditization as Process” In: Miller, Daniel (ed.), Consumption - Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences, Vol. III [Disciplinary approaches to consumption]. London & New York, Routledge: 9-33.
MILLER, Daniel (2005). “Materiality: An Introduction” In: ders. (ed.), Materiality. Durham & London, Duke University Press: 1-50.

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Letzte Änderung: Mo 07.09.2020 15:40