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The Manchester School and its Impact on Anthropology
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Till Förster |
| Veranstaltungsart |
Seminar
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| Wann |
Mo 10-12 |
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Ethnologisches Seminar, Seminarraum |
| Sprechstunde |
nach Vereinbarung |
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Inhalt |
The Manchester School was a seminal moment in the history of modern British social anthropology. It grew out of a comprehensive research project of the Rhodes Livingstone Institute in British Central Africa, now Zambia and Zimbabwe. The formation as a scholarly movement and later as a school, however, was later associated with Manchester where Max Gluckman, its founding father, became the first professor of social anthropology. The work of Gluckman and his students led away from the conventional study of small scale societies as it was practiced by many anthropologists until the middle of the 20th century. The methodological and theoretical innovations first arose out of the study of rural?urban relationships in Central Africa but soon became a novel general research stream in anthropology. It rotated around four fields of enquiry: 1. social problems (e.g. urbanization), 2. processes of articulation (e.g. through migration), 3. interpersonal interaction (e.g. in multiethnic settings), and 4. rhetoric and semantics (e.g. in new religious movements). In all four fields, scholars from Manchester have produced highly original and stimulating works. At a more methodological level, the Extended Case Study anticipated many later developments in social anthropology as, for instance, network and practice analyses. At a theoretical level, the Manchester School questioned the bounded notions of society that, at the time and still for a long time, dominated social anthropology and the social sciences in general.
This seminar traces the development of the school from Max Gluckman to his students Victor Turner, Clyde Mitchell, Edmund Leach, Fredrick G. Bailey, Andrew L. Epstein, Elizabeth Colson and their students as Fredrick Barth, Richard Werbner and others. It also introduces into the major methodological and theoretical achievements of the Manchester School. |
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Programm |
| 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 by December 31, 2010.
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Programm HS 2010 |
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Starts October 11, 2010
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8am–12am
11.10.2010 |
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Introduction: British Social Anthropology in the 1930s
The Foundation of Political Anthropology
The Rhodes Livingstone Institute and B. Malinowski:
a love-hate relationship of culture contact |
Till Förster |
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8am–12am
18.10.2010 |
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The Founding Father
Max Gluckman I: The seminal period (1940–55)
Max Gluckman II: Order and Rebellion (1956–1975) |
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8am–12am
25.10.2010 |
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Social Problems
Andrew L. Epstein: Politics in African Cities
William Watson: Dual modes: Town and Country |
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1.11.2010 |
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All Saints: no class |
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8.11.2010 |
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Interpersonal Interaction
Clyde Mitchell: The Kalela dance as an expression of conflict |
Jan Ueberwasser |
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15.11.2010 |
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Methodological Innovation
The Extended Case Study |
Sirin Knecht |
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22.11.2010 |
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Rhetorics and Semantics
Victor Turner: Structure and anti-structure |
M. Rivière |
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29.11.2010 |
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Richard B. Werbner: Regional cults, sacred journeys |
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6.12.2010 |
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Processes of Articulation
Jean and John Comaroff: Malcontents of Modernity |
J. Bähler |
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13.12.2010 |
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James Ferguson: Revisiting the Copperbelt |
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20.12.2010 |
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Examination Week: no class |
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Literatur |
| Werbner, Richard P., 1984: The Manchester School In South-Central Africa. Annual Review of Anthropology 13:157-85
Evens, T.M.S. / Handelman, Don (eds.), 2006: The Manchester School: practice and ethnographic praxis in anthropology. New York: Berghan Books.
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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Shortcuts
Inhalt
Programm
Literatur
Bemerkungen
Links
Vorlesungsverzeichnis online
Download
18.10.2010, Werbner 1984 (pdf)
handout 18.10.2010 (pdf)
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