080010 VU B620 Society: Sones, rocks, minerals. (2024S)
Cultural anthropological perspectives on the materiality of fairly solid bodies
Continuous assessment of course work
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Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
- Registration is open from Th 01.02.2024 07:00 to Th 22.02.2024 23:59
- Deregistration possible until Th 14.03.2024 23:59
Details
max. 50 participants
Language: German
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
Der Termin am 17. Mai 2024 findet im Naturhistorischen Museum Wien, Maria Theresien Platz 1 statt.
(Treffpunkt: 14:15 Uhr, Beginn 14:30 Uhr pünktlich)
Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie, Sitzungszimmer, Stiege C, NIG (pünktlich)
- Friday 15.03. 14:30 - 16:00 Seminarraum 2 (4.Stock) EE Hanuschgasse
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Aims, contents and method of the course
The course aims to trace the sensory experience acquired through the use of audio-visual recording technologies that have been transforming our everyday lives. Recognizing the agency of both human and non-human actors in this relationship, we will revisit the history of media technologies while focusing on their performative capacities, and their effects on the human body, senses, and emotions. Media technologies will be approached as an extension of the embodied subject with its racial, gendered, and socio-economic issues.Theoretical approaches to embodiment and audio-visual technologies will be drawn from film, media and cultural studies, sensory ethnography, and post-humanism. The practical aim of the course is to conduct research on our daily lives under the influence of digital media technologies -especially under the conditions of the pandemic. Students are encouraged to imagine their online classes as a field of ethnographic interrogation and cultural analysis and expected to create a (multi)media project which could be an ethnographic film, sound work, video or photographic essay. Experimentation with media is welcome!No previous skills in audio-visual media production are required. The basics will be taught. We will embrace a Do-it-yourself approach and work with the tools we have at our disposal.The language of the lecture is English. However, students are welcome to conduct their projects in German.
Assessment and permitted materials
It is a continuous assessment course and attendance is compulsory. You can only miss 2 sessions (2 times 90 minutes) or 1 blocked session (180 minutes).
active participation, presentations and written work based on own (small-scale) research.
* 20 points for active participation
* 30 points for presentations
* 45 points for (multi)media projects (15 minutes)
* 5 points for textual explanations of the project (max. 1 page)
active participation, presentations and written work based on own (small-scale) research.
* 20 points for active participation
* 30 points for presentations
* 45 points for (multi)media projects (15 minutes)
* 5 points for textual explanations of the project (max. 1 page)
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
Alle Teilleistungen sind zu erbringen. Wird eine Teilleistung zur Gänze nicht erbracht, wird dies als Abbruch der LV gewertet.
Liegt keine Entschuldigung (etwa nachgewiesene längere Krankheitsphase) vor, erfolgt eine Beurteilung mit Nicht genügend (5).
Für den erfolgreichen Abschluss der LV sind zumindest 51 von 100 möglichen Punkten zu erreichen.Notenskala:
> = 92 sehr gut (1)
> = 80 gut (2)
> = 65 befriedigend (3)
> = 51 genügend (4)
< 51 nicht genügend (5)
Liegt keine Entschuldigung (etwa nachgewiesene längere Krankheitsphase) vor, erfolgt eine Beurteilung mit Nicht genügend (5).
Für den erfolgreichen Abschluss der LV sind zumindest 51 von 100 möglichen Punkten zu erreichen.Notenskala:
> = 92 sehr gut (1)
> = 80 gut (2)
> = 65 befriedigend (3)
> = 51 genügend (4)
< 51 nicht genügend (5)
Examination topics
Reading list
Boivin, Nicole/ Owoc, Mary Ann (eds.) (2004): Soils Stones and Symbols. Cultural Perceptions of the Mineral World. Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives On The Mineral World. Routledge.Cooney, Gabriel/ Gilhooly, Bernard (eds.) (2020): Cultures of Stone. An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Materiality of Stone. Sidestone Press.Edensor, Tim (2022): Landscape, Materiality and Heritage: An Object Biography. Palgrave Macmillan.Edensor, Tim (2020): Stone. Stories of Urban Materiality. Palgrave Macmillan.Ferry, Elisabeth E. (2013): Minerals, Collecting, and Value across the US-Mexico Border (Tracking Globalization). Indiana University Press.Knapp, Bernard et al. (eds.) (1998): Social Approaches to an Industrial Past: The Archaeology and Anthropology of Mining. Routldedge.
Jack, Jerry K.(2018): The Anthropology of Mining: The Social and Environmental Impacts of Resource Extraction in the Mineral Age. In: Annual review of anthropology, 2018, Vol.47: 61-77Kimmerer, Robin Wall (2020): Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants. Penguin.Kohn, Eduardo (2013): How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human.Ferry, Elisabeth et al. (eds.) (2020): The Anthropology of precious minerals. Toronto.Rohde, Eckart/ Rohde, Helmut (1998): Beseelte Steine. Skulpturen aus Zimbabwe. Lit Verlag.Meloy, Ellen (2003): The Anthropology of Turquoise. Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone and Sky. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. University of California.Schorch, Philipp/ Saxer, Martin/ Elders, Marion (eds.) (2020): Exlporing Materiality and Connectivity in Anthropology and Beyond. UCL Press.Tilley, Christopher (2004): The Materiality of Stone. Explorations in Landscape Phenomenology. Berg Publishers.Verein für kritische Geschichtsschreibung (Hg.) (2020): Steine. (Werkstatt Geschichte. 81). Transcript.Violi, Alessandra et al. (eds.) (2020): Bodies of Stone in the Media, Visual Culture and the Arts. Amsterdam University Press.
Jack, Jerry K.(2018): The Anthropology of Mining: The Social and Environmental Impacts of Resource Extraction in the Mineral Age. In: Annual review of anthropology, 2018, Vol.47: 61-77Kimmerer, Robin Wall (2020): Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants. Penguin.Kohn, Eduardo (2013): How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human.Ferry, Elisabeth et al. (eds.) (2020): The Anthropology of precious minerals. Toronto.Rohde, Eckart/ Rohde, Helmut (1998): Beseelte Steine. Skulpturen aus Zimbabwe. Lit Verlag.Meloy, Ellen (2003): The Anthropology of Turquoise. Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone and Sky. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. University of California.Schorch, Philipp/ Saxer, Martin/ Elders, Marion (eds.) (2020): Exlporing Materiality and Connectivity in Anthropology and Beyond. UCL Press.Tilley, Christopher (2004): The Materiality of Stone. Explorations in Landscape Phenomenology. Berg Publishers.Verein für kritische Geschichtsschreibung (Hg.) (2020): Steine. (Werkstatt Geschichte. 81). Transcript.Violi, Alessandra et al. (eds.) (2020): Bodies of Stone in the Media, Visual Culture and the Arts. Amsterdam University Press.
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EC Kulturanalysen des Alltags
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