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Graduate Course
SoSe 20: Theorizing from the South I
Kai Kresse
Information for students
This seminar is offered via online teachung.
Comments
What kind of anthropology is it that we, as scholars and students of the discipline, should or need to be advocating – also and especially with a view to current timely demands for conceptual and structural decolonization? How has anthropological critique questioned the fundamentals of the discipline (of anthropology) itself? Which programmatic pathways have been sketched out to indicate constructive ways forward? What do we think of them; which others would we like to raise; why? Does the inclusion of, and focus on theory from the South already constitute a fundamental change? How might anthropology engage constructively with thinkers and theoretical contributions from the global South? In which ways, finally, does it matter that we as researchers and social agents are inevitably positioned in certain ways, often belonging clearly to regions of the Global North or South?
This seminar course will pursue these and related questions with a view to some classic and some recent readings, both from within and outside anthropology, and engaging with theorizing from the South, especially from Africa. close
This seminar course will pursue these and related questions with a view to some classic and some recent readings, both from within and outside anthropology, and engaging with theorizing from the South, especially from Africa. close
Suggested reading
Selected literature
- Asad, T. 1973. Anthropology and the colonial encounter. Humanities Press.
- Fabian, J. 1983. Time and the other. New York: Columbia University Press.
- Moore, H.L. (ed) 1996. The future of anthropological knowledge. London: Routledge.
- Kenyatta, J. (orig. 1938) 2011. Facing Mount Kenya. Nairobi: East African Educational Publishers.
- P’Bitek, Okot 1970. African religions in western scholarship. Nairobi: East African Literature Bureau.
- Comaroff, J. and J. 2012. Theory from the South. London: Paradigm Publishers.
- Sarr, F. 2020. Afrotopia. University of Minnesota Press.
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- Asad, T. 1973. Anthropology and the colonial encounter. Humanities Press.
- Fabian, J. 1983. Time and the other. New York: Columbia University Press.
- Moore, H.L. (ed) 1996. The future of anthropological knowledge. London: Routledge.
- Kenyatta, J. (orig. 1938) 2011. Facing Mount Kenya. Nairobi: East African Educational Publishers.
- P’Bitek, Okot 1970. African religions in western scholarship. Nairobi: East African Literature Bureau.
- Comaroff, J. and J. 2012. Theory from the South. London: Paradigm Publishers.
- Sarr, F. 2020. Afrotopia. University of Minnesota Press.
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13 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Wed, 2020-04-22 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2020-04-29 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2020-05-06 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2020-05-13 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2020-05-20 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2020-05-27 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2020-06-03 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2020-06-10 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2020-06-17 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2020-06-24 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2020-07-01 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2020-07-08 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2020-07-15 12:00 - 14:00