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Introduction to the Ethnography of West AfricaEinführung in die Ethnographie Westafrikas
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Inhalt |
| West Africa is a region that fascinated many ethnographers because of its extremely high variety in natural, societal and cultural forms. It covers thinly inhabited deserts but also wet-lands, intensively cultivated, as well as rapidly growing urban centres like Dakar, Abidjan and Lagos. Since the middle ages, West Africa has been the heartland of mighty kingdoms while other societies resisted any centralized rule. Today, the continuity of old types of social or-ganisation and culture merge with modern and post-colonial life, thus creating new societal fields. This course – part lecture and part seminar, part conceptual and part ethnographic – provides an introduction to the societies of West Africa and situates them in relation to the natural environment and historical and contemporary developments in economics, politics and culture. It later focuses on two or three societies in each major region, emphasising particular societal and cultural forms and addresses specific questions of research. The course will also survey principal changes in institutions and ideologies which have taken place in rural and in urban communities up to the present. Ethnographic descriptions will also draw on the modern African nations and post-colonial societies: Senegal, Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast and Mali. |
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Programm |
| Beginn 19. April 2004
Klausur:
Montag, 5. Juli 2004, 10–12 Uhr im Hörsaal 119
(Alte Universität, Rheinsprung 9)
Ersatzklausur für diejenigen, die den Termin 5. Juli nicht wahrnehmen können: Freitag, 2. Juli 2004, 10–12 Uhr, Seminarraum, Ethnol. Seminar |
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Literatur |
| A script will be accessible as hard copy at the Institute for Social Anthropology and as downloadable pdf-file on the website.
Introductory reading:
Bates, Robert H. / Mudimbe, V. Y. / O’Barr, Jean (eds.), Africa and the Disciplines. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Pr., 1993.
Ajayi, Ade F. J. / Michael Crowder (eds.), History of West Africa. 2 vols., Harlow, London: Longman, 1971–1974, ²1985.
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Bemerkungen |
| Introductory course. No special requirements, open to all students in Social Anthropology and African Studies.
Final exam by written tests at the end of the summer term (Klausur). The exam is comprehensive; it will cover the entire semester’s material although it will concentrate on three questions. |
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Einleitung 19.4. (pdf)
Einleitung und Geographie (pdf)
Karte Naturräume (pdf)
Karte Verkehrssprachen (pdf)
Quellen (pdf)
Gliederung (pdf)
Sahel, Teil 1 (pdf)
Sahel, Teil 2 (pdf)
Sudan (pdf)
Savanne/Regenwald Mosaik (pdf)
Guineaküste (pdf)
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