240523 SE Maritime Anthropology (P4) (2022W)
Continuous assessment of course work
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Participation at first session is obligatory!The lecturer can invite students to a grade-relevant discussion about partial achievements. Partial achievements that are obtained by fraud or plagiarized result in the non-evaluation of the course (entry 'X' in certificate). The plagiarism software 'Turnitin' will be used for courses with continuous assessment.
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 Th 01.09.2022 00:01 to Mo 26.09.2022 23:59
- Deregistration possible until Mo 17.10.2022 23:59
Details
max. 20 participants
Language: English
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
If possible, the course is to be conducted in presence. Due to the respective applicable distance regulations and other measures, adjustments may be made.
Tuesday
04.10.
11:30 - 14:45
Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
Tuesday
25.10.
11:30 - 14:45
Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
Tuesday
22.11.
11:30 - 14:45
Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
Tuesday
13.12.
11:30 - 14:45
Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
Tuesday
10.01.
11:30 - 14:45
Seminarraum A, NIG 4. Stock
Tuesday
31.01.
11:30 - 14:45
Seminarraum A, NIG 4. Stock
Information
Aims, contents and method of the course
This course aims at introducing anthropological perspectives on maritime issues. While very few people live permanently at sea, many spend significant amounts of time at sea in a variety of professions and activities. At the same time, human adaptations to maritime environments are relatively late prehistoric occurrences, which required technological and cultural innovations and adjustments. While fairly little time will be devoted to prehistoric and historic issues, the course will focus primarily on contemporary maritime issues. The sea has provided room for provisioning and other economic activities, ranging from sea mammal hunting and fishing to trade and container shipping to piracy. Topics surrounding seafaring also deal with ways of life at sea, while a focus on port infrastructures and the cruise ship industry highlights the interdependencies between the land and the sea. In recent years, issues surrounding climate change, such sea level rise and plastic pollution, have gained prominence. At the same time, topics connected to processes of globalization and international legal conventions are becoming increasingly important. Thus, this course will explore the social, economic, political, cultural and emotional dimensions that life on or at the sea provides.
Assessment and permitted materials
A mandatory seminar paper will count for 50% (which equal 50 points) of the grade. The rest of the grade will be determined by short oral presentations and written handouts, as well as by course participation.
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
In order to receive a passing grade, you need at least 60 points. A 'sehr gut' requires at least 90 out of 100 points (a 'gut' at least 80 points, etc.). Attendance is required throughout the semester.
The lecturer can invite students to a grade-relevant discussion about partial achievements. Partial achievements that are obtained by fraud or plagiarized result in the non-evaluation of the course (entry 'X' in certificate). From winter term 2019/20 the plagiarism software 'Turnitin' will be used for courses with continuous assessment.
The lecturer can invite students to a grade-relevant discussion about partial achievements. Partial achievements that are obtained by fraud or plagiarized result in the non-evaluation of the course (entry 'X' in certificate). From winter term 2019/20 the plagiarism software 'Turnitin' will be used for courses with continuous assessment.
Examination topics
There will be no exams.
Reading list
Amundsen, Helene
2015 Place Attachment as a Driver of Adaptation in Coastal Communities in Northern Norway. Local Environment 20(3):257-276.Blakemore, Richard J.
2013 The Politics of Piracy in the British Atlantic, c. 1640-1649. International Journal of Maritime History 25(2):159-172.Borovik, Maria
2017 Nighttime Navigating: Moving a Container Ship through Darkness. Transfers 7(3):38-55.Brigham, Lawson W., and Lawrence P. Hildebrand
2018 Introduction to the New Maritime Arctic. In Sustainable Shipping in a Changing Arctic. L.P. Hildebrand, L.W. Brigham, and T.M. Johansson, eds. Pp. 1-11. Cham, Switzerland: Springer.Carse, Ashley
2020 The Feel of 13,000 Containers: How Pilots Learn to Navigate Changing Logistical Environments. Ethnos:1-24.Cobb, Hannah, and Jesse Ransley
2019 Moving Beyond the ‘Scape’ to Being in the (Watery) World, Wherever. In At Home on the Waves: Human Habitation of the Sea from the Mesolithic to Today. T.J. King and G. Robinson, eds. Pp. 17-33. New York: Berghahn Books.Cocco, Emilio
2013 Theoretical Implications of Maritime Sociology. Roczniki Socjologii Morskiej/Annuals of Marine Sociology 22:5-18.Das, Sonia Neela
2018 The Unsociability of Commercial Seafaring: Language Practice and Ideology in Maritime Technocracy. American Anthropologist 121(1):62-75.Helmreich, Stefan
2011 Nature/Culture/Seawater. American Anthropologist 113(1):132-144.Jones, Ryan Tucker
2011 A ‘Havock Made among Them’: Animals, Empire, and Extinction in the Russian North Pacific, 1741-1810. Environmental History 16:585-609.Kraska, James
2009 Coalition Strategy and the Pirates of the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea. Comparative Strategy 28(3):197-216.Krause, Franz, and Mark Harris, eds.
2021 Delta Life: Exploring Dynamic Environments where Rivers Meet the Sea. New York: Berghahn.Lambert, David, Luciana Martins, and Miles Ogborn
2006 Currents, Visions and Voyages: Historical Geographies of the Sea. Journal of Historical Geography 32:497-493.Law, John
1984 On the Methods of Long-Distance Control: Vessels, Navigation and the Portuguese Route to India. The Sociological Review 32(1):234-263.Leap, William L.
1977 Maritime Subsistence in Anthropological Perspective: A Statement of Priorities. In Those Who Live from the Sea: A Study in Maritime Anthropology. M.E. Smith, ed. Pp. 251-263. The American Ethnological Society, Monograph 62. St. Paul, MN: West Publishing.Lien, Marianne E.
2003 Shifting Boundaries of a Coastal Community: Tracing Changes on the Margin. In Globalisation: Studies in Anthropology. T.H. Eriksen, ed. Pp. 66-78. London: Pluto Press.Ling, Johan, Timothy Earle, and Kristian Kristiansen
2018 Maritime Mode of Production Raiding and Trading in Seafaring Chiefdoms. Current Anthropology 59(5):488-524.Markkula, Johanna
2011 ‘Any Port in a Storm’: Responding to Crisis in the World of Shipping. Social Anthropology 19(3):297-304.Mason, Owen K., and Jeffrey T. Rasic
2019 Walrusing, Whaling and the Origins of the Old Bering Sea Culture. World Archaeology 51(3):454-483.Mazé, Camille, et al.
2017 Knowlede and Power in Integrated Coastal Management: For a Political Anthropology of the Sea Combined with the Sciences of the Marine Environment. Comptes Rendu Geoscience (349):359-368.Neill, Anna
2000 Buccaneer Ethnography: Nature, Culture, and Nation in the Journals of William Dampier. Eighteenth-Century Studies 33(2):165-180.Palmer, Craig T.
1990 Balancing Competition and Cooperation: Verbal Etiquette Among Maine Lobstermen. Maritime Anthropological Studies (MAST) 3(1):87-105.Pálsson, Gísli
1994 Enskilment at Sea. Man (N.S.) 29(4):901-927.Prieto, Gabriel
2016 Maritime Anthropology and the Study of Fishing Settlements in Archaeology: A Perspective from the Peruvian North Coast. Global Journal of Human-Social Science: D, History, Archaeology & Anthropology 16(3):19-30.Tyrrell, Martina
2013 Enacting and Renewing Identity, Kinship, and Humanity on the Sea Ice. Polar Geography 36(1-2):30-46.
2015 Place Attachment as a Driver of Adaptation in Coastal Communities in Northern Norway. Local Environment 20(3):257-276.Blakemore, Richard J.
2013 The Politics of Piracy in the British Atlantic, c. 1640-1649. International Journal of Maritime History 25(2):159-172.Borovik, Maria
2017 Nighttime Navigating: Moving a Container Ship through Darkness. Transfers 7(3):38-55.Brigham, Lawson W., and Lawrence P. Hildebrand
2018 Introduction to the New Maritime Arctic. In Sustainable Shipping in a Changing Arctic. L.P. Hildebrand, L.W. Brigham, and T.M. Johansson, eds. Pp. 1-11. Cham, Switzerland: Springer.Carse, Ashley
2020 The Feel of 13,000 Containers: How Pilots Learn to Navigate Changing Logistical Environments. Ethnos:1-24.Cobb, Hannah, and Jesse Ransley
2019 Moving Beyond the ‘Scape’ to Being in the (Watery) World, Wherever. In At Home on the Waves: Human Habitation of the Sea from the Mesolithic to Today. T.J. King and G. Robinson, eds. Pp. 17-33. New York: Berghahn Books.Cocco, Emilio
2013 Theoretical Implications of Maritime Sociology. Roczniki Socjologii Morskiej/Annuals of Marine Sociology 22:5-18.Das, Sonia Neela
2018 The Unsociability of Commercial Seafaring: Language Practice and Ideology in Maritime Technocracy. American Anthropologist 121(1):62-75.Helmreich, Stefan
2011 Nature/Culture/Seawater. American Anthropologist 113(1):132-144.Jones, Ryan Tucker
2011 A ‘Havock Made among Them’: Animals, Empire, and Extinction in the Russian North Pacific, 1741-1810. Environmental History 16:585-609.Kraska, James
2009 Coalition Strategy and the Pirates of the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea. Comparative Strategy 28(3):197-216.Krause, Franz, and Mark Harris, eds.
2021 Delta Life: Exploring Dynamic Environments where Rivers Meet the Sea. New York: Berghahn.Lambert, David, Luciana Martins, and Miles Ogborn
2006 Currents, Visions and Voyages: Historical Geographies of the Sea. Journal of Historical Geography 32:497-493.Law, John
1984 On the Methods of Long-Distance Control: Vessels, Navigation and the Portuguese Route to India. The Sociological Review 32(1):234-263.Leap, William L.
1977 Maritime Subsistence in Anthropological Perspective: A Statement of Priorities. In Those Who Live from the Sea: A Study in Maritime Anthropology. M.E. Smith, ed. Pp. 251-263. The American Ethnological Society, Monograph 62. St. Paul, MN: West Publishing.Lien, Marianne E.
2003 Shifting Boundaries of a Coastal Community: Tracing Changes on the Margin. In Globalisation: Studies in Anthropology. T.H. Eriksen, ed. Pp. 66-78. London: Pluto Press.Ling, Johan, Timothy Earle, and Kristian Kristiansen
2018 Maritime Mode of Production Raiding and Trading in Seafaring Chiefdoms. Current Anthropology 59(5):488-524.Markkula, Johanna
2011 ‘Any Port in a Storm’: Responding to Crisis in the World of Shipping. Social Anthropology 19(3):297-304.Mason, Owen K., and Jeffrey T. Rasic
2019 Walrusing, Whaling and the Origins of the Old Bering Sea Culture. World Archaeology 51(3):454-483.Mazé, Camille, et al.
2017 Knowlede and Power in Integrated Coastal Management: For a Political Anthropology of the Sea Combined with the Sciences of the Marine Environment. Comptes Rendu Geoscience (349):359-368.Neill, Anna
2000 Buccaneer Ethnography: Nature, Culture, and Nation in the Journals of William Dampier. Eighteenth-Century Studies 33(2):165-180.Palmer, Craig T.
1990 Balancing Competition and Cooperation: Verbal Etiquette Among Maine Lobstermen. Maritime Anthropological Studies (MAST) 3(1):87-105.Pálsson, Gísli
1994 Enskilment at Sea. Man (N.S.) 29(4):901-927.Prieto, Gabriel
2016 Maritime Anthropology and the Study of Fishing Settlements in Archaeology: A Perspective from the Peruvian North Coast. Global Journal of Human-Social Science: D, History, Archaeology & Anthropology 16(3):19-30.Tyrrell, Martina
2013 Enacting and Renewing Identity, Kinship, and Humanity on the Sea Ice. Polar Geography 36(1-2):30-46.
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