SOSANT 4400 Litteraturseminar
Pensum, seminargruppe "ANT og Antropologi: Natur, performativitet og kontekst"
Antropologien har alltid latt seg inspirere av tilgrensende fag. I dette kurset skal vi se n?rmere p? grenseflatene mellom antropologi og nyere teoretiske retninger som springer ut av vitenskapsstudier, med s?rlig vekt p? akt?r-nettverk –teori (ANT) og materiell semiotikk. Kurset vil gi en oversikt over de viktigste debattene og posisjonene i dette feltet, og gi ?velse i kritisk refleksjon. Vi vil rette fokus mot hvordan disse debattene utfordrer antropologiens sentrale analysebegreper som kontekst, natur og sosialitet, og sp?r blant annet: Hva er det som provoserer? Hva er det som st?r p? spill? Og hva kan vi som antropologer l?re av ANT og materiell semiotikk? Vi vil fors?ke ? gj?re teorien relevant i forhold til aktuelle problemstillinger i masteroppgavene.
Undervisningen kombinerer forelesninger og studentpresentasjoner. Kursdeltagere anbefales ? gj?re seg kjent med Stefan Helmreich’s monografi ’Alien Ocean’ og ? lese de oppgitte 120 sidene av Bruno Latour’s Reassembling the Social f?r kursstart. ?vrige artikler b?r leses i l?pet av kursperioden.
Pensum best?r av 2 b?ker og kompendium. B?ker kan l?nes p? biblioteket, eller kj?pes hos Akademika, amazon.com og AbeBooks.com. Kompendium er til salgs i Kopiutsalget.
B?ker
@ Helmreich, Stefan: Alien Ocean: Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas, 2009. University of California Press; 1 edition. Paperback, 422 sider.
@ Latour, Bruno: Reassembling the Social, 2005. Oxford university Press. Sidene 1-120 er pensum.. LAST NED PDF-FIL.
Artikler i kompendium
Barad, Karen: "Posthumanist Performativity, Towards and Understanding of how matter comes to matter" i Signs, Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Vol. 8 no. 3, 2003. Sidene 801-831.
Callon, Michel: "Some elements of a sociology of translation: domestication of the scallops and the fishermen of St Brieuc Bay" i J. Law (ed.): Power, action and belief: a new sociology of knowledge?, 1986. London, Routledge. Sidene 196-223.
Harvey, Penelope: "Knowledge and Experimental Practice" i (ed.) R. Fardon: Handbook of Social Anthropology, 2011. (forthcoming) Sage publications, 12 sider.
Lien, Marianne E. and John Law: "'Emergent Aliens': On Salmon, Nature, and Their Enactment" i Ethnos, 76: 1, 2011. Sidene 65-87.
Law, John: Actor Network Theory and Material Semiotics, version of 25th April 2007. Available at: http://www.heterogeneities.net/publications/Law-ANTandMaterialSemiotics.pdf. DOWNLOAD ONLINE PDF.
Law, John and Ingunn Moser: Contexts and Culling, version of 16th March 2010. Available at: http://www.heterogeneities.net/publications/LawMoser2010ContextsCulling.pdf . DOWNLOAD ONLINE PDF.
Haraway, Donna: "Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective" i Feminist Studies, Vol. 14, No. 3, 1988. Sidene 575-599.
Mol, Annemarie: "Different Atheroscleroses" i The Body Multiple. Ontology in Medical Practice, 2002. Duke University Press. Sidene 29-53.
Palsson, Gisli: "Ensembles of Biosocial Relations" i Tim Ingold and Gisli Palsson (eds.): Biosocial Becomings, 2012. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming. Sidene 2-22..
Tsing, Anna: "Worlding the Matsutake Diaspora: Or, Can Actor–Network Theory" i Bubandt, N. and T. Otto (eds.): Experiments in Holism, 2010. Wiley Blackwell. Sidene 47-67.
Writing list, seminar group "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).
Pensum, seminargruppe "Kulturelle modeller og antropologisk teori"
I seminaret tar vi for oss et utvalg av sentrale perspektiver i kognitiv antropologi. Vi vil unders?ke hvilke implikasjoner disse perspektivene har for v?r forst?else av tanke, spr?k og handling, og hvilke mulighet de gir n?r det gjelder ? anvende etnografiske data som innfallsvinkel til ? forst? kulturelle modeller. I tillegg vil diskusjoner om (teorier om) kulturelle modellers relevans i sosialantropologisk teori mer allment, st? sentralt.
Alle deltakere oppfordres til ? v?re forberedt til det f?rste seminaret, og anbefales ? begynne ? gj?re seg kjent med Metaphors We Live By. Seminaret vil starte med en forelesning, og deretter legges st?rre vekt p? deltakernes egne presentasjoner av utvalgte deler av litteraturen, og p? diskusjoner i plenum.
Pensum best?r i sin helhet av 2 b?ker. Disse kan l?nes p? biblioteket, eller kj?pes hos Akademika eller nettbokhandlere som amazon.com og abebooks.com
@ Fischer, M., Kronenfeld, D., Bennardo, G., and V.de Munck (eds.): A Companion to Cognitive Anthropology, 2011. Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell. Hardcover 624 sider. F?lgende sider er pensum: 9-115, 290-330, 376-412, 430-449, 530-582 (ca. 250 sider).
@ Lakoff, G. & M. Johnson (eds.): Metaphors We Live By, 1980. Chicago University Press. Paperback 256 sider.