General information
| Course name | Seminar: Anthropology of the Cold War: localised global conflicts and globalised local conflicts |
| Semester | WS 2011/12 |
| Current number of participants | 1 |
| Home institute | Ethnologie/Kulturvergleichende Soziologie |
| Courses type | Seminar in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen |
| First date | Monday, 10.10.2011 16:15 - 17:45 |
| Type/Form | LHGZ |
| Participants |
Kommentar: This seminar is conceived as an exploration of the post-WWII major economic and political transformations through the lenses of anthropological theory. At the same time, it is also an exploration of the Cold War’s geopolitical and epistemological consequences on the development of the discipline of anthropology itself. The seminar is organised weekly around the discussion of maximum three required readings to which students will have to actively participate. The reading list will include relevant texts of classical figures such as Claude Levi-Strauss, Clifford Geertz, Eric Wolf, Max Gluckman and Oscar Lewis among others. More recent anthropological works of John Borneman, Katherine Verdery, Heonik Kwon and David Price will be used for the understanding of the connections between the Cold War global socio-economic logics and the local conditions of the anthropological research. The seminar readings will take students on ethnographic imaginative trips to Revolutionary Cuba, Vietnam, East-West Berlin, Ceausescu’s Romania, Sukarno’s Indonesia, Central Africa, US academic campuses and many other places. The syllabus includes a list of documentary and fiction films dealing with the topics of the seminar. |
| Studiengänge (für) |
Studienprogramm: Bachelor Ethnologie 60/90 Modul: LHGZ Modulleistung: Seminararbeit Studienleistung: Wird in der ersten Stunde bekannt gegeben |
| Miscellanea | Besonderheiten: The language of instruction will be English |
| ECTS points | 5 |
