240190 SE Selling/Consuming Ethnicity - Material culture in the context of anthropological debates (P4) (2014W)
Continuous assessment of course work
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Participation at first session is obligatory!
Registration/Deregistration
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 Mo 01.09.2014 00:01 to Su 28.09.2014 23:59
- Deregistration possible until Su 19.10.2014 23:59
Details
max. 40 participants
Language: English
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
Thursday
30.10.
09:00 - 13:00
Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
Thursday
06.11.
09:00 - 13:00
Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
Thursday
20.11.
09:00 - 13:00
Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
Thursday
11.12.
09:00 - 13:00
Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
Thursday
18.12.
09:00 - 13:00
Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
Thursday
29.01.
09:00 - 13:00
Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
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Aims, contents and method of the course
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.
Assessment and permitted materials
+ attandance+ quality of participation+ written term paper
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
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.
Examination topics
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)
Reading list
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.
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