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Seminar
WiSe 21/22: How we become who we are: learning and socialization in ancient societies
Susan Pollock
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Unterrichtssprache: English
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Simone de Beauvoir famously claimed that women are made, not born. The same could be said for all people – we become who we are through learning and socialization. This includes everything from formalized instruction in schools and universities to embodied and situated learning of crafts and other productive activities to culturally acceptable forms of behavior.
How did learning work in the past? Can we identify places and processes of learning? Were the dynamics of teaching and learning similar to those we know today; if not, how did they differ? In this course we will draw on literature on learning and socialization in archaeology and related disciplines in order to examine specific cases in the past, both in western Asia and in other geographical contexts.
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Suggested reading
Castro Gessner, A. Gabriela. 2010. Shared Painting: The Practice of Decorating Late Neolithic Pottery in Northern Mesopotamia. In Agency and Identity in the Ancient Near East: New Paths Forward, Sharon Steadman and Jennifer Ross, eds., pp. 99-116. London: Equinox.
Gosselain, Olivier. 2011. Technology. In The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Ritual and Religion, Timothy Insoll, ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Lave, Jean. 2011. Apprenticeship in Critical Ethnographic Practice. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Lave, Jean and Etienne Wenger. 1991. Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Lemonnier, Pierre, ed. 1983. Technological Choices: Transformation in Material Cultures since the Neolithic. London: Routledge.
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16 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Wed, 2021-10-20 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2021-10-27 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2021-11-03 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2021-11-10 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2021-11-17 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2021-11-24 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2021-12-01 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2021-12-08 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2021-12-15 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2022-01-05 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2022-01-12 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2022-01-19 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2022-01-26 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2022-02-02 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2022-02-09 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2022-02-16 14:00 - 16:00