13829b

WiSe 17/18: Borders and Walls

Susan Pollock, Sabine Reinhold

Information for students

Ort und Zeit n. V. / Language of instruction: English

Additional information / Pre-requisites

Das Modul 13829 a (S) und 13829 b (C) ist mit 15 LP zu bewerten. Die Veranstaltungen müssen zusammen besucht werden.

Comments

Everywhere we look today there are borders and walls: some are torn down, others erected, some are welcomed, others spurned. Borders and walls are metaphors as well as physical materialities. They include as well as exclude, making clear who is “us” and who is other: notions of identity are predicated on ideas about alterity and boundaries. Maps delineate borders of various kinds and in doing so reveal our conceptions of political and cultural entities. We will explore some of these varied understandings of borders, boundaries, and walls, drawing on anthropological, archaeological, and historical literature, and consider the ways that they can be applied to our studies of the ancient world. close

Suggested reading

Background literature: Barth, Fredrik, ed. 1969. Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: The Social Organization of Culture Diffference. Boston: Little, Brown; de León, Jason. 2015. The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail. University of California Press; Fabian, Johannes. 1983. Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object. Columbia University Press; Lattimore, Owen. 1940. Inner Asian Frontiers of China. New York: American Geographical Society; McWilliams, Anna. 2013. An Archaeology of the Iron Curtain: Material and Metaphor. Stockholm: Södertörn Doctoral Dissertations; Mullin, David, ed. 2011. Places in Between: The Archaeology of Social, Cultural and Geographical Borders and Borderlands. Oxford: Oxbow Books; Parker, Bradley. 2001. The Mechanics of Empire: The Northern Frontier of Assyria as a Case Study in Imperial Dynamics. Helsinki: Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project. close

Additional appointments

Tue, 2017-11-21 18:00 - 20:00

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Ort: TBA