03-ETH-1026.SE01a Crisis and Modernity in Africa

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Lehrende: N.N.

Veranstaltungsart: Seminar

Orga-Einheit: 03-Ethnologie

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Semesterwochenstunden: 2

Unterrichtssprache: Englisch

Offizielle Kursbeschreibung:
Taking examples from various African contexts, this module
problematizes the notion of modernity and its relation to processes of
social change. The module introduces students to a range of
ethnographic traditions and methodological approaches towards
modernity, crisis and social change.
Modernity is more than a reference to living in the present or “now“. It
entails an often explicit distinction between “us“ and a traditional
“other“. In order to achieve a transition from an idealized tradition to
modernity, change has to occur. It may crystalize in development as
ideology, changing notions of belonging and personhood,
developments in popular culture or religious practice.
Students in this module will consider discourse of crisis and
disjuncture that accompany narratives of modernization. We discuss
how ideologies of modernity impact on people's experiences of
change and rupture in the case of civil war, generational conflict,
religious strive, autochthony discourses, medical transformation and
communication revolution. At a conceptual level, we question
dominant view of perceiving Africa as the non-modern “Other”. The
contingent is configured as an object that has to be brought into the
(Western) world. Generating more complex analyses of modernity in
Africa requires challenging this dominant representational mode.

Organisatorisches:
Dozent: Maarten Beedert (bedert@eth.mpg.de)

Termine
Datum Von Bis Raum Lehrende
1 Di, 11. Okt. 2016 09:15 10:45 Buchbinderwerkstatt/PC-P M 104 N.N.
2 Di, 18. Okt. 2016 09:15 10:45 Buchbinderwerkstatt/PC-P M 104 N.N.
3 Di, 25. Okt. 2016 09:15 10:45 Buchbinderwerkstatt/PC-P M 104 N.N.
4 Di, 1. Nov. 2016 09:15 10:45 Buchbinderwerkstatt/PC-P M 104 N.N.
5 Di, 8. Nov. 2016 09:15 10:45 Buchbinderwerkstatt/PC-P M 104 N.N.
6 Di, 15. Nov. 2016 09:15 10:45 Buchbinderwerkstatt/PC-P M 104 N.N.
7 Di, 22. Nov. 2016 09:15 10:45 Buchbinderwerkstatt/PC-P M 104 N.N.
8 Di, 29. Nov. 2016 09:15 10:45 Buchbinderwerkstatt/PC-P M 104 N.N.
9 Di, 6. Dez. 2016 09:15 10:45 Buchbinderwerkstatt/PC-P M 104 N.N.
10 Di, 13. Dez. 2016 09:15 10:45 Buchbinderwerkstatt/PC-P M 104 N.N.
11 Di, 20. Dez. 2016 09:15 10:45 Buchbinderwerkstatt/PC-P M 104 N.N.
12 Di, 10. Jan. 2017 09:15 10:45 Buchbinderwerkstatt/PC-P M 104 N.N.
13 Di, 17. Jan. 2017 09:15 10:45 Buchbinderwerkstatt/PC-P M 104 N.N.
14 Di, 24. Jan. 2017 09:15 10:45 Buchbinderwerkstatt/PC-P M 104 N.N.
15 Di, 31. Jan. 2017 09:15 10:45 Buchbinderwerkstatt/PC-P M 104 N.N.
Enthalten in Modulen
Modul
03-ETH-1026 Aktuelle Themen der Ethnologie (WiSe 2016/17)
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