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Agency and Creativity
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Till Förster |
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Seminar
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| Wann |
Fr 10-12 |
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Ethnologisches Seminar, Seminarraum |
| Sprechstunde |
nach Vereinbarung |
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Inhalt |
| Agency and creativity are loosely defined notions in everyday language. In the humanities, they had been used in many fields to point at how people actively shape their social and cultural worlds. However, they were seldom developed into reflected concepts for the analysis of social life. While some art historians reduce creativity to individuals and how they bring novel things into being, anthropologists examine and analyze more the social and cultural sites of creativity and link it to the complementary notion of agency. The seminar focuses on the tension between individual and social agency on the one hand and the collaborative dimensions of creativity on the other. It first reviews the scholarly literature in the humanities and in particular in anthropology and sociology on the concepts. In a second part, it looks at case studies in the fields of the arts, the production of cultural knowledge, in social and religious practice, and in political institutions. |
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Programm |
Starts October 15, 2010
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Date |
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topic |
speaker |
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8am–12am
15.10.2010 |
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2.
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Introduction: Agency and Creativity in Classical Social Theory
Emile Durkheim: Collective Experience and Sacredness
Max Weber: Charismatic Leadership |
Till Förster |
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22.10.2010 |
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No class |
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29.10.2010 |
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No class |
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9–13a.m.
5.11.2010 |
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4.
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Early Ethnographic Studies
Fission and Fusion: Bateson on the Iatmul (Bateson 1936, 1972)
Spirit Possession and Shamanism (Lewis 1975) |
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9–13a.m.
12.11.2010 |
5.
6.
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Creativity and Agency in the Study of the Arts
Ritual and Experience (Drewal)
Moments of Freedom in Popular Arts (Fabian) |
A. Bruckner
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9–13a.m.
19.11.2010 |
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8. |
The Workshop in African Art: Oshogbo (Okeke, Förster/Kasfir)
Agency and the Social Order
Victor Turner: Structure and anti-structure |
A. Christie
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26.11.2010 |
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10. |
Kirsten Hastrup: Agency and Imagination
Charles Taylor: Modern Social Imageries |
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3.12.2010 |
11.
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Processes of Political Articulation
Benedict Anderson: Imagining political belonging |
H. Schmidt
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10.12.2010 |
12. |
Alain Touraine: Social and Political Movements |
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17.12.2010 |
13. |
Outlook: Agency and creativity beyond the nature vs. culture divide |
Till Förster | | The students are expected to write a short essay of 4 to 5 pages on one of the books discussed in the seminar and to submit it one week before their presentation.
Full papers are due one week in advance of the oral presentation. |
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Literatur |
Frank, Katherine, 2006: Agency, in: Anthropological Theory 6: 281-302.
Giuffre, Katherine, 2009: Collective Creativity. Farnham: Ashgate.
Keane, Webb, 2003: Self-Interpretation, Agency, and the Objects of Anthropology, in: Comparative Studies in Society and History 45.2: 222-248.
Hallam, Elizabeth / Ingold, Tim (eds.), 2008: Creativity and Cultural Improvisation. London: Berg Publishers.
Lavie, Smadar / Narayan, Kirin / Rosaldo, Renato (eds.), 1993: Creativity / Anthropology. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Pr.
Liep, John, 2001: Locating Cultural Creativity. London: Pluto Press.
Masakazu, Tanaka, Towards and Anthropology of Agency, in: Japanese Review of Cultural Anthropology 6: 3-17.
A comprehensive reading list will be provided on the website of the Institute of Social Anthropology by the end of June 2010. |
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Bemerkungen |
Studierende im BA erst ab dem 5. Semester.
Die Teilnehmerzahl ist beschränkt, die Plätze werden nach Anmeldedatum und Studienfachzugehörigkeit vergeben. Vorrang haben die Studierenden der Ethnologie und African Studies. Die Anmeldung erfolgt über ISIS. |
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Emirbayer/Mische, 29.10.10 (pdf)
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