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Seminargruppe: Intime liv: kjønn, slektskap og økonomi
Foreleser: Marit Melhuus
Dette kurset tar primært utgangspunkt i to monografier: 1) Rebecca Popenoes Feeding Desire. Fatness, Beauty and Sexuality among a Saharan People og 2) Ara Wilsons The Intimate Economies of Bangkok. Tycoons, Tomboys, and Avon Ladies in the Global City.
Med utgangspunkt i disse to vidt forskjellige monografiene vil vi utforske intime relasjoner, slik de kommer til utrykk i økonomi, slektskap, kjønn og seksualitet. Det er først og fremst sammenhengene som disse relasjonene inngår i, som vil stå i fokus. Således vil vi på den ene siden gjennom Popenoes studie av et folk i Sahara, se nærmere på fedme og hvilken betydning fedme har får kvinners liv, seksualitet og levevilkår. I dette samfunnet er fedme et kvinnelig kjønnsideal og Popenoe viser hvordan fedme inngår i begjær, slektskap, og begreper om helse. Således mobiliserer hun en bredere kulturell og sosial kontekst for å begripe fedmes sentrale plass i dette halv-nomadiske samfunn.
Wilsons utgangpunkt er kapitalismens fremmarsj i Bangkok og hvordan denne har endret folks offentlige og private liv. Snarere enn å ta fatt i ett aspekt av denne globale økonomien fokuserer hun på effekter: hun mobiliserer flere eksempler for å synliggjøre kvinner og menns deltakelse i ulike lokale markeder, alt fra sex arbeid til et varemagasin. Hun vil vise frem de tråder som trekker folk og økonomier sammen, gjennom ulike intime relasjoner, deriblant slektskap.
Vi vil lese disse bøkene langs flere dimensjoner og med et kritisk blikk. De vil danne grunnlaget for våre diskusjoner om metodisk tilnærming, etnografiens kvalitet, analytisk stringens og monografiens oppbygning. I sammenstillingen av to såpass forskjellige arbeider, vil det komparative perspektivet stå sentralt, ikke minst med henblikk på slektskap og kjønn og de intime relasjoner innenfor arbeid og økonomi. Innledningsvis leser vi noen artikler som kretser inn ulike betydninger av slektskap og den rolle slektskap spiller i analyser av et etnografisk materiale.
Kurset baserer seg hovedsakelig på student fremlegg.
Pensum består av 2 bøker og 3 bok-kapitler (kapitlene lastes ned fra Fronter)
@ Popoenoe, Rebecca. 2004. Feeding desire. Fatness, beauty and sexuality among a saharan people. London: Routledge. 230 sider
@ Wilson, Ara. 2004. The intimate economies of Bangkok. Tomboys, tycoons, and Avon ladies in the global city. Berkeley: University of California press. 272 sider
McKinnon, Susan and Fenella Cannell. 2013. ”The Difference Kinship Makes” in Susan McKinnon and Fenella Cannell (eds) Vital Relations. Modernity and the Persistent Life of Kinship, Santa Fe: SAR Press, 3 -36.
Shever, Elana. 2013. ” ’I am a petroleum product’: Making Kinship Work on the Patagonian Frontier” in Susan McKinnon and Fenella Cannell (eds) Vital Relations. Modernity and the Persistent Life of Kinship. Santa Fe: SAR Press, 85 -108.
Carsten, Janet. 2004 [1995]. ”The Substance of Kinship and the Heat of the Hearth. Feeding, Personhood, and Relatedness among the Malays in Palau Langwaki” in R. Parkin and L. Stone (eds) Kinship and Family. An Anthropological Reader. Oxford: Blackwell, 309 – 327.
Seminargruppe: Everyday Maneuvers: Anthropology of War, Military and Society
Foreleser: Nefissa Naguib
Course readings and lectures use cultural, historical and gendered approaches to understanding how wars affect societies and the impacts societal militarization has on everyday life. Case studies will be drawn from historic events and locations around the globe, in particular Guatemala, Argentina, Israel, the US and Mozambique. The questions this course addresses include: What do we learn about war through ethnographic method? How are societies changed by warfare? How does militarization of society affect different communities? What spaces/landscapes do militaries produce and control? How are these spaces—among them camps, memorials, cemeteries, clubs, marketplaces and hospitals —perceived by civilians?
How are masculinities at work in waging war, remembering battles or in the barracks? How do women—or rather, have women—in the armed forces paved the way in redefining relations between the military and society at large? What are the environmental effects of militarization on society?
The course is designed with three main learning goals in mind: 1) To present a critical approach to how anthropologists study war and institutions such as the military. 2) To introduce questions regarding local human responses to societal militarization. 3). To engage in social analysis of current war zones around the world.
Pensum består av 2 bøker og 4 online tekster
@ Belkin, Aaron 2012 Bring Me Men: Military Masculinity and the Benign Façade of American Empire 1898 – 2001. Oxford University Press
@ Green, Linda 1999. Fear as a Way of Life: Mayan Widows in Rural Guatemala. NY: Colombia University Press.
Lutz, Catherine 2006. “Empire in the Details”, American Ethnologist Vol.33, Issue 4 pp593-611. onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Lutz, Catherine 2002. “Making War at Home in the United States: Militarization and the Current Crisis.”, American Anthropologist, vol 104, Issue 3. Pp. 723 – 735. onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Kanaaneh, Rhoda 2005. “Boys or men? Duped or “Made”? Palestinian soldiers in the Israeli Military.” American Ethnologist Vol. 32, Issue 2. Pp.260-275. jstor.org
Badaró, Máximo 2015. ““One of the Guys”: Military Women, Paradoxical Individuality, and the Transformations of Argentine Army.” American Anthropologist. Vol 117, Issue 1. Pp.86 – 99. onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Seminargruppe: Visual Anthropology: Ethnography, Standards, Experimentation
Foreleser: Arnd Schneider
This course will introduce to some of the most exciting theoretical discussions in contemporary anthropology, which have to do with status of images (moving & still // film/video & photography) as a source of knowledge, research tool, and mode of representation. Rather than being mere illustrations (such as photos in the majority of anthropological literature), or indices of things, people or events (such as in mainstream documentary film), images are here understood as producing knowledge, theory and argument.
Such a renewed theoretical focus on and with images is required not only to understand our increasingly mediatized global world, but also the image use in radically different societies, and indeed by anthropologists themselves.
We will have lectures, discussions based on readings, and student presentations. In the presentations students are invited to present their own photos or film-clips from fieldwork (or, alternatively, other examples from film/video & photography), and discuss them in light of the literature.
Pensum består av en bok, kompendium og tekster online
@ Schneider, Arnd / Pasqualino, Caterina (eds.) 2014. Experimental Film and Anthropology co-edited with Caterina Pasqualino, London: Bloomsbury.205 pp. 205 pages
Tekster i kompendium
Durington, Matthew / Ruby, Jay 2011. Ethnographic Film. Made to be Seen: Histories of Visual Anthropology. Eds. Jay Ruby /Marcus Banks. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. pp.190 -208. 18 pages.
Edwards, Elizabeth. Tracing Photography. Made to be Seen: Histories of Visual Anthropology. Eds. Jay Ruby /Marcus Banks. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. pp.159 -190. 31 pages.
Grimshaw, Anna 2001. The innocent eye: Flaherty, Malinowski, and the romantic quest. The Ethnographer’s Eye: Ways of Seeing in Anthropology (ch. 3). Anna Grimshaw. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.pp.44-68. 24 pages.
Grimshaw, Anna 2001.Cinema and anthropology in the postwar world. The Ethnographer’s Eye: Ways of Seeing in Anthropology (ch. 5). Anna Grimshaw. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.pp. 71- 89. 18 pages.
Hoskins, Janet 1993. “Why we Cried to See Him Again”: Indonesian Villagers’ Responses to the Filmic Disruption of Time. Anthropological Film and Video in the 1990s. Ed. Jack R. Rollwagen. Brockport, N.Y.: The Institute. pp. 77 – 103. 26 pages.
Kapferer, Bruce 2013. Montage and Time: Deleuze, Cinema, and a Buddhist Sorcery Rite. Transcultural Montage. Eds. Christian Suhr / Rane Willerslev. Oxford: Berghahn. pp. 20 -39. 19 pages.
Krings, Martin 2013. Karishika with Kiswahili Flavor: A Nollywood Film Retold by a Tanzanian Video Narrator. Global Nollywood: The Transnational Dimensions of an African Video Film Industry. Eds. Matthias Krings / Onookome Okome. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Pp. 306 -326. 20 pages.
Schneider, Arnd 2011. Unfinished Dialogues: Notes towards an Alternative History of Art and Anthropology. Made to be Seen: Histories of Visual Anthropology. Eds. Jay Ruby /Marcus Banks. Chicago: University of Chicago Press pp. 108-135. 27 pages.
Schneider, Arnd. 2011. Expanded Visions: Rethinking Anthropological Research and Representation trough Experimental Film”, Redrawing Anthropology: Matererials, Movements, Lines, ed. Tim Ingold, Farnham: Ashgate, 2011. pp. 177 – 194. 17 pages.
Schneider, Arnd 2006.Setting up Roots: On the Set of a Cinema Movie in a Mapuche Reservation. Appropriation as Practice:Art and Identity in Argentina. Arnd Schneider. New York: Palgrave.pp . 111 -131. 20 pages
Bok-kapitler og tekster som finnes online
Banks, Marcus. 2001. Chapter 2 "Encountering the Visual" and Chapter 5 "Making Images", in Marcus Banks: Visual Methods in Social Research. London: Sage, pp. 13 -48 (35 pages) and pp. 111-137 (26 pages). sagepub
Larkin, Brian 2002. The Materiality of Cinema Theaters in Northern Nigeria. Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain. Eds. Faye Ginsburg / Lila Abu-Lughod/Brian Larkin. Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 319 -336. 17 pages. PDF
MacDougall, David. 1997. The Visual in Anthropology. Rethinking Visual Anthropology. Eds. Marcus Banks and Howard Morphy. New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 276 – 295. 19 pages. CSCs.res.in
MacDougall, David. 1998. Beyond Observational Cinema. Transcultural Cinema. Princeton: Princeton University Press. pp. 125 – 139. 14 pages. alexanderstreet.com
Marcus, George 1995. The Modernist Sensibility in Recent Ethnographic Writing and the Cinematic Metaphor of Montage”, Fields of Vision: Essays in Film Studies, Visual Anthropology, and Photography, ed. Leslie Devereux /Roger Hillman, Berkeley: University of California Press.pp. 35 – 55. 20 pages. lib.umich.edu
Pandian, Anand 2011. Reel time: Ethnography and the historical ontology of the cinematic image. Screen 52(2) 193 – 214. 21 pages. oxfordjournals.org
Suhr, Christian / Willerslev, Rane. 2012. “Can Film Show the Invisible? The Work of Montage in Ethnographic Filmmaking,” Current Anthropology, 53 (3), 2012, pp. 282–301. 19 pages. jstor.org