SOSANT 4400 Litteraturseminar
B?kene/monografiene er ? f? kj?pt p? amazon.com og AbeBooks.com. Akademika har ogs? noen eksemplarer. I tillegg skal de fleste b?ker/monografier kunne l?nes p? biblioteket.
Kompendium selges hos Kopiutsalget. Husk at gyldig semesterkort m? fremvises.
Pensum, seminargruppe "Om ? skrive 'de andres' liv: etnografi, etikk og sjanger"
To monografier, begge om mennesker i den arabiske verden, danner utgangspunkt for kurset. Hver p? sin m?te er de eksperimentelle i form og sjanger; begge s?ker ? g? nye veier i fremstillingen av kultur og samfunn; begge reiser grunnleggende etiske sp?rsm?l om hvordan antropologen kan s?ke ? unng? ? gj?re ”de andre” til objekter i en tekst som tilstreber ? v?re sannferdig.
Finnes sannheten? Eller kan vi bare ”samle” fragmenter fra ulike perspektiver? Hvordan i s? fall best gripe dette an metodisk? Hvis det er sant som Clifford Geertz (og mange med ham) har hevdet, at antropologiske representasjoner er fiction (heller enn fact), kan vi da l?pe linjen helt ut og skrive fiksjon basert p? hva vi forst?r som fakta, og likevel gi en realistisk fremstilling av etnografi?
De to monografiene har sv?rt ulike tiln?rminger og en komparasjon av fremstillingsform og sjanger kan v?re fruktbar.
Videre vil anonymiseringsproblematikken bli diskutert. Spiller det en rolle om v?re informanter er elite eller av lav klasse, lesekyndige eller analfabeter, mektige eller avmektige? Hvilken konsekvens har deres posisjon for v?re etiske utfordringer og muligheter til ? l?se dem p? en m?te som beskytter andres integritet og verdighet?
Seminaret vil ha en konsentrert form og g? over 3 dager a 4 timer med to uker mellom seminarene. Det forventes aktiv deltakelse fra alle, og begge b?kene m? leses i sin helhet til det tidspunkt de er satt opp p? pensum.
Pensum best?r av 2 b?ker:
@ Lindisfarne, Nancy: Dancing in Damascus: Stories, 2000. New York: SUNY press. Paperback 176 sider.
@ Wikan, Unni: Tomorrow, God Willing: Self-Made Destinies in Cairo, 1996. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 352 sider.
Pensum, seminargruppe "Symbolbruk, erfaring og forst?elsesform"
Pensum best?r av 3 b?ker:
@ Strathern, Marilyn: Partial Connections, Updated Edition, 2004. Alta Mira Press, Oxford. Paperback 112 sider.
@ Wagner, Roy: The Invention of Culture, 1981. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1981. (Paperback). Kap. 1,2,3,4,5 (103 sider).
@ Weiner, James F: Tree Leaf Talk: A Heideggerian Anthropology, 2001. Berg, Oxford 2001 (Paperback). Kap 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10 (115 sider).
Pensum seminar gruppe: "Art, Appropriation, Materiality: New Approaches"
This course will address recent discussions on the construction of authenticity, the relation between between ‘original’ and ‘copy’, and more generally, of how ‘cultures’ are generated (Kapferer & Hobart), and change. We will explore these issues in relation to art (Marcus & Myers, Schneider) and material culture (Knappett, Henare et al.). In particular, we will focus on theoretical models of appropriation (Schneider), creativity (Hallam & Ingold), agency in relation to artefacts, or ‘things’ (Gell, Henare et al., Knappett). Much of this research has focused on visual and performing arts (Schneider’s study of artists in Argentina), and material culture more generally, but insights from this discussion can also be applied to any kind of social and cultural authenticity construction (identity). In addition, for anthropologists doing research in this area poses the epistemological challenge of how to represent their sensorially rich findings, as forms of embodied knowledge and visual practice beyond traditional forms of writing (Gunn, Schneider & Wright).
We will have lectures, discussions based on readings, and student presentations. Students are advised to read the indicated literature before each session.
Book
@ Schneider, Arnd: Appropriation as Practice:Art and Identity in Argentina, 2006. New York: Palgrave, 225 pages.
Kompendium (available at Kopiutsalget, groundfloor Akademika)
Gell, A: "The Problem Defined: The Need for an Anthropology of Art" i Art and Agency: An Anthropological Theory, 1998. pp 1-11 (11 pages).
Gunn, W: "Making ‘Fieldnotes and Sketchbooks’: An Introduction" i Wendy Gunn (ed.): Fieldnotes and Sketchbooks: Challenging the Boundaries between Descriptions and Processes of Describing, 2009. Frankfurt/M.: Peter Lang, pp. 1-35 (35 pages).
Henare, A., Holbraad, M. & S. Wastell: "Introduction: Thinking through things" i Amiria Henare, Martin Holbraad and Sari Wastell (eds.): Thinking through things: Theorising artifacts ethnographically, 2007. London: Routledge. pp. 1-31 (31 pages).
Ingold, T. and E. Hallam: "Creativity and Cultural Improvisation: An Introduction" i Tim Ingold and Elizabeth Hallam (eds.): Creativity and Cultural Improvisation, 2007. Oxford: Berg, pp. 1-24 (24 pages).
Kapferer, B. and A. Hobart: "Introduction. The Aesthetics of Symbolic Construction" i Bruce Kapferer and Angela Hobart (eds.): Aesthetics in Performance, 2005. Oxford. Berghahn, pp.1-22 (22 pages).
Knappett, C: "Introduction + Animacy, Agency and Personhood (chapters 1-2)" i Thinking Through Material Culture: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, 2005. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. pp.1-34 ( 34 pages).
Marcus, G. and F. Myers: "The Traffic in Art and Culture: An Introduction" i George Marcus and Fred Myers (eds.): The Traffic in Culture: Refiguring Art and Anthropology, 1995. Berkeley: University of California Press,.pp.1-51 (51 pages).
Schneider, A: "Unfinished Dialogues: Notes towards an Alternative History of Art and Anthropology" i Jay Ruby and Marcus Banks (eds.): Made to be Seen: Histories of Visual Anthropology, 2011. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 108-135 ( 27 pages).
Schneider, A: "Appropriations" i Arnd Schneider and Christopher Wright (eds.): Contemporary Art and Anthropology, 2006. Oxford: Berg Publishers, pp. 29 -51, 197-202 (28 pages).
Schneider, A. and C. Wright: "Between Art and Anthropology" i Arnd Schneider and Christopher Wright (eds.): Between Art and Anthropology, 2010. Oxford: Berg, pp. 1-21, 163-67 (25 pages).
Schneider, A. and C. Wright: "The Challenge of Practice" i Arnd Schneider and Christopher Wright (eds.): Contemporary Art and Anthropology, 2006. Oxford: Berg Publishers, pp. 1-27, 191-197 (33 pages).