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240013 VO New Critical Perspectives in Social and Cultural Anthropology (2024S)

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

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Details

Language: German

Examination dates

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Tuesday 05.03. 11:30 - 14:45 Hörsaal 5 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 9 Hof 5
  • Tuesday 09.04. 11:30 - 14:45 Hörsaal 5 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 9 Hof 5
  • Tuesday 16.04. 11:30 - 14:45 Hörsaal 5 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 9 Hof 5
  • Tuesday 23.04. 11:30 - 14:45 Hörsaal 5 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 9 Hof 5
  • Tuesday 28.05. 11:30 - 14:45 Hörsaal 5 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 9 Hof 5
  • Tuesday 04.06. 11:30 - 14:45 Hörsaal 5 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 9 Hof 5
  • Tuesday 11.06. 11:30 - 14:45 Hörsaal 5 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 9 Hof 5

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

In this lecture, students will be introduced to current discussions and fields in the discipline of Anthropology. It aims at facilitating students to be aware of the ethical challenges that anthropological research and work have carried on in the past and how current and critical perspectives are committed to avoiding harm, discrimination, and the perpetuation of social imbalances product of the colonial matrix of power. 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 also be able to reflect on their own positionality, as well as have a basic understanding of the critical, reflective and collaborative ethos underlying anthropological research.

The course is divided in six themes that help addressing the above-mentioned issues in an interrelated and comprehensive way. These issues are:
1) Knowledge production practices
2) Methods in anthropological research
3) The body as an anthropological object and subject
4) Politics and political engagements in Anthropology
5) Ethics regarding anthropological research and work
6) Possible futures for Anthropology as a critical discipline

Method:

The official format of the course is a lecture; however, student participation will be encouraged and class activities will take place to allow active and self-reflexive 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 peer reviewed articles. Students will be presented with art expressions (visual and performative arts, music, poetry, plastic arts, popular art expressions) as forms of legitimate and relevant knowledge.

Assessment and permitted materials

Written examination at the end of the semester on all compulsory texts and lecture content

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

For a positive grade, 51 % are required

90-100 %= 1
77-89 %= 2
64-76 %= 3
51-63 %= 4
0-50 % = 5

Examination topics

Obligatory readings and lecture content

Reading list

A complete bibliography will be announced at the beginning of the course.caza, R., 2023. Tanteando en la oscuridad:: Decolonial Feminist Horizons.
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
Anzaldúa, G., 1987. Borderlands/la frontera. The New Mestiza. Aunt Luke Books.
Walsh, C. and Mignolo, W., 2018. On decoloniality. DW Mignolo, & EC Walsh, On Decoloniality Concepts, Analysis, Praxis, 304.
Ahmed, S., 2007. A phenomenology of whiteness. Feminist theory, 8(2), pp.149-168.
Fanon, F., 2008. Black skin, white masks. Grove press.
Fals-Borda, O., 1992. Evolution and convergence in participatory action research. A world of communities: Participatory research perspectives, pp.14-19.
Gupta, A. and Stoolman, J., 2022. Decolonizing US anthropology. American Anthropologist.
Lugones, M., 2007. Heterosexualism and the colonial/modern gender system. Hypatia, 22(1), pp.186-219.
Hazel, Y.P., 2014. Sensing difference: Whiteness, national identity, and belonging in the Dominican Republic. Transforming Anthropology, 22(2), pp.78-91.

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