Universität Wien

240190 SE Selling/Consuming Ethnicity - Material culture in the context of anthropological debates (P4) (2014W)

Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

Participation at first session is obligatory!

An/Abmeldung

Hinweis: Ihr Anmeldezeitpunkt innerhalb der Frist hat keine Auswirkungen auf die Platzvergabe (kein "first come, first served").

Details

max. 40 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

Donnerstag 30.10. 09:00 - 13:00 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
Donnerstag 06.11. 09:00 - 13:00 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
Donnerstag 20.11. 09:00 - 13:00 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
Donnerstag 11.12. 09:00 - 13:00 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
Donnerstag 18.12. 09:00 - 13:00 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
Donnerstag 29.01. 09:00 - 13:00 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

NOTE: The seminar name is similar to the seminar name in winter term 2013. The content and the didactical setting will be different. Students who attended the seminar in winter term 2013 are welcome again!

The seminar deals with the analisis of the commercialization of authenticity and ethnicity, which is essential and indispensable to understand urban societies in the context of material culture from a contemporary anthropological perspective. In the seminar, theoretical anthropological approaches will be discussed and linked to the collected fieldwork data of the participating students.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

+ attandance

+ quality of participation

+ written term paper

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

The course introduces anthropological theory and practice about material culture and consumption in urban contexts. The students are enabled to identify and analyse research fields of material culture studies and consumption anthropology through studying anthropological texts and doing fieldwork in the city. Processes of appreciation and devaluation of consumer practices are shown as integral part of emphasizing differences in urban societies. The importance of materiality in urban contexts will become unveiled on different social levels and ranks.

Prüfungsstoff

The methodology of the course includes:

+ lectures including e.g. presentation of fieldwork about consumption in Latin American cities

+ presentation of documentals and videos

+ discussion of anthropological texts, text & film analysis

+ topical working groups with particular assignments

+ occasionally (not compulsory) fieldwork in the city of Vienna about consumption (done by students incl. documentation and analysis)

+ all steps supported by blended learning (Moodle)

Literatur

BÖNISCH-BREDNICH, Brigitte (2010) (Hrg.) Local lives. Migration and the politics of place, Burlington, VT, Ashgate.
MILLER, Daniel. (ed.). 2002. Consumption: critical concepts in the social sciences. Volumes 1-4. London, Routledge.
MILLER, Daniel. 2008. The comfort of things. Cambridge [u.a.], Polity.
DASTON, Lorraine. (ed.) 2004. Things that talk: object lessons from art and science. New York, NY, Zone Books.
EDWARDS, Elizabeth/ GOSDEN, Chris/ PHILLIPS, Ruth B. (2006). “Introduction” In: EDWARDS, Elizabeth et al. (eds.), Sensible Objects. Colonialism, Museums and Material Culture. Oxford & New York/ Berg Publishers: 1-31.
GRAVES-BROWN, Paul (2000). “Introduction” In: ders. (ed.), Matter, Materiality and Modern Culture. London & New York, Routledge: 1-9.
KALTMEIER, Olaf (2011) (Hrg.) Selling Ethnicity – Urban Cultural Politics in the Americas. Burlington, VT, Ashgate.
KOPYTOFF, Igor (2001). “The Cultural Biography of Things: Commoditization as Process” In: Miller, Daniel (ed.), Consumption - Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences, Vol. III [Disciplinary approaches to consumption]. London & New York, Routledge: 9-33.
MILLER, Daniel (2005). “Materiality: An Introduction” In: ders. (ed.), Materiality. Durham & London, Duke University Press: 1-50.

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Letzte Änderung: Mo 07.09.2020 15:39