29660
Advanced seminar
SoSe 23: Anthropology and Theorizing from the South I
Kai Kresse
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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.
This is the first of two consecutive seminars to be addressing these issues, and normally students would be expected to continue in part II of the seminar, in the following semester. This will be building upon and complementing themes and discussions. A roadmap for this current semester, with a view also to potential themes for the second semester, will be laid out in the two opening sessions.
The first session of this seminar will be 22nd April.
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Suggested reading
- 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. close
14 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Wed, 2023-04-19 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2023-04-26 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2023-05-03 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2023-05-10 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2023-05-17 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2023-05-24 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2023-05-31 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2023-06-07 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2023-06-14 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2023-06-21 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2023-06-28 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2023-07-05 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2023-07-12 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2023-07-19 12:00 - 14:00