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240513 SE Maritime Anthropology (P4) (2020S)

Continuous assessment of course work

Participation at first session is obligatory!

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 40 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Your presence at the first meeting is mandatory.

  • Monday 09.03. 11:30 - 14:45 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
  • Monday 23.03. 11:30 - 14:45 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
  • Monday 20.04. 11:30 - 14:45 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
  • Monday 04.05. 11:30 - 14:45 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
  • Monday 08.06. 11:30 - 14:45 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
  • Monday 22.06. 11:30 - 14:45 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

The main goal of the course is to provide an introduction to anthropological perspectives on maritime issues. While very few people live permanently at sea, many spend significant times at sea in a variety of professions and activities. At the same time, human adaptations to maritime environments are relatively late prehistoric occurrences, which required technological and cultural innovations and adjustments instead. The course will spend fairly little time on prehistoric and historic issues but will focus on contemporary issues. These range from fisheries and port infrastructure to piracy and cruise ship tourism. We are interested in the social, economic, political and cultural affordances life on or at the sea provides.
Due to COVID-19, all seminar meetings will be online. We intend to pair each (online) presentation with an oral feedback presentation by another student.

Assessment and permitted materials

A mandatory seminar paper will count for 50% (which equal 50 points) of the grade. The rest of the grade will be determined by short oral presentations and written handouts, as well as by course participation.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

In order to receive a passing grade, you need at least 60 points. A 'sehr gut' requires at least 90 out of 100 points (a 'gut' at least 80 points, etc.). Attendance is required throughout the semester.

The lecturer can invite students to a grade-relevant discussion about partial achievements. Partial achievements that are obtained by fraud or plagiarized result in the non-evaluation of the course (entry 'X' in certificate). From winter term 2019/20 the plagiarism software 'Turnitin' will be used for courses with continuous assessment.

Examination topics

There will be no exams.

Reading list

Topical Readings

Anderson, Jon, and Kimberley Peters, eds.
2014 Water Worlds: Human Geographies of the Ocean. Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT: Ashgate.

Batra, Nandita, and Vartan P. Messier
2008 The Multitudinous Seas: Matter and Metaphor. In This Watery World: Humans and the Sea. N. Batra and V.P. Messier, eds. Pp. 1-19. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Borovik, Maria
2017 Nighttime Navigating: Moving a Container Ship through Darkness. Transfers 7(3):38-55.

Connery, Chris
1995 The Oceanic Feeling and the Regional Imaginary. In Global/Local: Cultural Production and the Transnational Imaginary (Asia-Pacific Series). R. Wilson and W. Dissanayake, eds. Pp. 284-311. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Cordell, John, and Judith Fitzpatrick
1987 Torres Strait: Cultural Identity and the Sea. In Cultural Survival Quarterly, Vol. 11.

Chambers, Iain
2010 Maritime Criticism and Lessons from the Sea. In Insights. Pp. 14, Vol. 3. Durham: Durham University.

Crowell, Aron L.
1999-2000 Maritime Cultures of the Gulf of Alaska. Revista de Arqueologia Americana (17-19):177-216.

Finamore, Daniel
2004 Maritime History as World History. Salem, Mass. Gainesville: Peabody Essex Museum; University Press of Florida.

Fitzhugh, William, ed.
1975 Prehistoric Maritime Adaptations of the Circumpolar Zone. The Hague: Mouton Publishers.

Gavrilova, Ksenia, Nikolai Vakhtin, and Valeria Vasilyeva
2017 Anthropology of the Northern Sea Route: Introducing the Topic. The Polar Journal 7(1):46-57.

Helmreich, Stefan
2011 Nature/Culture/Seawater. American Anthropologist 113(1):132-144.

Horden, Peregrine, and Nicholas Purcell
2000 The Corrupting Sea: a Study of Mediterranean History. Oxford: Blackwell.

Jackson, S. E.
1995 The Water is not Empty: Cross‐Cultural Issues in Conceptualising Sea Space. Australian Geographer 26(1):87-96.

Kafarowski, Joanna, ed.
2009 Gender, Culture and Northern Fisheries. Edmonton: CCI Press.

Kerttula, Anna M.
2000 Antler on the Sea: The Yupik and Chukchi of the Russian Far East. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

Krupnik, Igor, and Rachel Mason, eds.
2016 Maritime Hunting Culture of Chukotka: Traditions and Modern Practices. Anchorage, AK: National Park Service, Shared Beringian Heritage Program.

Lambert, D., L. Martins, and M. Ogborn
2006 Currents, Visions and Voyages: Historical Geographies of the Sea. Journal of Historical Geography 32:497-493.

Pálsson, Gísli
1994 Enskilment at Sea. Man (N.S.) 29(4):901-927.

Payoyo, Peter B.
1994 Ocean Governance: Sustainable Development of the Seas. Tokyo, New York: United Nations University Press.

Pearson, Michael
2003 The Indian Ocean. London: Routledge.

Ragner, Claes Lykke
2000 Northern Sea Route Cargo Flows and Infrastructure – Present State and Future Potential. Lysaker: Fridtjof Nansen Institute.

Rothwell, Donald R.
2018 Arctic Ocean Shipping: Navigation, Security and Sovereignty in the North American Arctic. Leiden: Brill.

Spoehr, Alexander
1980 Maritime Adaptations: Essays on Contemporary Fishing Communities. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.

Starosielski, Nicole
2015 The Undersea Network. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Steinberg, Philip E.
2001 The Social Construction of the Ocean. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press.

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