Course materials are comprised of one book, a compilation of texts (Compendium) and online articles.
You can buy the required book from Akademika Blindern bookstore, or purchase through online booksellers such as amazon.co.uk. Required book can also be barrowed from the University Library (provided the item is held).
"Kopiutsalget” on the lower level of Akademika Blindern bookstore, sells course materials such as compendia. You will be required to show your UiO student ID and semester card prior to your transaction. If course material is out of stock, please contact the department asap in the semester in order for us to re-order.
If you are away from campus and want to access online articles with UiO subscription, you can use university EZproxy services.
Syllabus
Required two readings before the first lecture:
@ Binyawanga, W. (2011). One Day I Will Write About This Place: A Memoir. Minneapolis, Greywolf Press. Publisher: Graywolf Press (Paperback: September 4, 2012, 272 pages).
@ Nugent, P. (2004). “Invasion of the Acronyms: SAPs, AIDS and the NGO Takeover.” Pp.330-375 in Africa since Independence. London, Palgrave McMillan. (45 p)
Curriculum Book
@ Binyawanga, W. (2011). One Day I Will Write About This Place: A Memoir. Minneapolis, Greywolf Press. Publisher: Graywolf Press (Paperback: September 4, 2012, 272 pages)
Curriculum Compendium
Asad, T. (1973). Introduction. In: Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter. T. Asad. London, Ithaca Press. Pp. 9-20. (11p)
Comaroff Comaroff, J. and J. Comaroff (1993). Introduction. In: Modernity and Its Malcontent. Ritual and Power in Postcolonial Africa. J. Comaroff and J. Comaroff. Chicago, Chicago University Press. Pp.xi-xxxvii. (26p)
Cooper, F. (2002). “Ending empire and imagining the future”, pp 67-131 in Africa Since 1940: The Past of the Present. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. (54p)
Ferguson, J. (2010). Expectations of Modernity. Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zamnbian Copperbelt. In: Perspectives on Africa. A Reader in Culture, History and Representation. R. R. Grinker, S. C. Lubkeman and C. B. Steiner. Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell. Pp. 595-608. (13p)
Geissler, P. W. and G. Lachenal (2016). Brief instructions for archaeologists of African futures. Traces of the future. An archaeology of medical science in Africa. P. W. Geissler, G. Lachenal, J. Manton and N. Tousignant. Bristol, Intellect. Pp. 15-28. (22p)
Geissler, P. W. and R. J. Prince (2010). Salvation and Tradition: Heaven and Earth. In: The Land is Dying. Contingency, Creativity and Conflict in Western Kenya. Oxford, Berghahn. Pp.77-106. (29p)
Hoffmann, D. (2017). Introduction. Monrovia Modern: Urban Form and Political Imagination in Liberia. Durham, Duke University Press. Pp.1-32. (31p)
James, W. (1973). The anthropologist as reluctant imperialist. In: Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter. T. Asad. London, Ithaca Press. Pp. 41-70. (28p)
Mbuy, T. H. (2015). African Traditional Religion as the Socio-Cultural Background of the African of the Third Millenium. In: The Anthropology of Africa. Challenges for the 21st Century. P. N. Nkwi. Mankon, Langaa. Pp. 255-270. (15p)
Mudimbe, V. Y. (1988). Discourse of power and knowledge of otherness. In: The Invention of Africa. Gnosis, Philosophy and the Order of Knowledge. V. Y. Mudimbe. London, James Currey. Pp. 1-23. (23p)
Ntarangwi, M., D. Mills, M.Babiker (2006). Introduction: Histories of Training, Ethnographies of Practice. In: African Anthropologies. History, Critique and Practice. M. Ntarangwi, D. Mills and M. Babiker. Dakar, Codesria. Pp.1-42. (41p)
Nugent, P. (2004). “Invasion of the Acronyms: SAPs, AIDS and the NGO Takeover.” Pp.330-375 in Africa since Independence. London, Palgrave McMillan. (45p)
Obbo, C. (2006). But we know it all! African perspectives on anthropological knowledge. African anthropologies: history, critique and practice. M. Ntarangwi, D. Mills and M. Babiker. Dakar, Codesria. Pp. 154-169.(14p)
Curriculum Online articles
Mulemi, Benson A. (2008): Patients’ perspectives on hospitalisation: Experiences from a cancer ward in Kenya, Anthropology & Medicine, 15:2, 117-131 (14 p).
Binyawanga, W. (2005): How to write about Africa. Granta 92(4).
Boeck, F. D. (2011): INHABITING OCULAR GROUND: Kinshasa's Future in the Light of Congo's Spectral Urban Politics. 26(2): 263-286.
Coffman, Jennifer & Christian Vannier (2018): African Futures and Afrofuturism. Anthropology News, July 12, 2018. (4 p)
Ferguson, J. (2006): Introduction & Chapter 8. In: Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World Order. Ferguson, J. Durham: Duke University Press. Pp. 1-23 & pp.195-210. (37p).
Goldstone, B. and J. Obarrio (2016): Introduction: Untimely Africa? In: African Futures. Essays on Crisis, Emergence, and Possibility. B. Goldstone and J. Obarrio. Chicago, University of Chicago Press. Pp. 1-19. (19p)
Harsh, M., K. Holden, et al. (2019): Situating science in Africa: The dynamics of computing research in Nairobi and Kampala. Social Studies of Science 49(1): 52-76.
Hecht, G. (2018): Interscalar Vehicles for an African Anthropocene: On Waste, Temporality, and Violence. Cultural Anthropology 33 (1), 109-41. (22 p).
Langwick, S. A. (2008): Articulate(d) bodies: Traditional medicine in a Tanzanian hospital. American Ethnologist 35(3): 428-439.
Makori, T. (2017): Mobilizing the past: creuseurs, precarity and the colonizing structure in the Congo Copperbelt. Africa 87 (4) 2017: 780–805. (25p).
Mbembe, A. and J. Roitman (1995): Figures of the subject in times of crisis. Public Culture 7(2): 323-352. Duke University Press
Nyamnjoh, F. B. (2012): Blinded by Sight: Divining the Future of Anthropology in Africa. Africa Spectrum 47(273): 63-92.
Redfield, P. (2012): The unbearable lightness of expats: double binds of humanitarian mobility. Cultural Anthropology 27(2): 358-382.
Sanders, T. (2003): Reconsidering witchcraft: postcolonial Africa and analytic (un)certainties. American Anthropologist 105(2): 338-352.
Schumaker, L. (1996): A Tent with a View: Colonial Officers, Anthropologists, and the Making of the Field in Northern Rhodesia, 1937-1960. Osiris 11: 237-258.
Simone, AbdouMaliq (2004): People as Infrastructure: Intersecting Fragments in Johannesburg. Public Culture 16(3): 407-429.
Weiss, B. (2008): Thug realism. Inhabiting fantasy in urban Tanzania. Cultural Anthropology 17(1):93-122. (28p).
Wofford, T. (2017): Afrofutures. Third Text 31(5-6): 633-649. ORIA