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Seminargruppe: Foodways in Anthropology
Foreleser: Nefissa Naguib
In this course we will explore the uses of food in anthropological writing. We will compare three different ethnographies from different regions: the first text explores theories of food and memory and how they relate to understanding social life; the second monograph looks at human and non-human boundaries, interactions and structures; and the third text is an ethnography about men and the variety of ways in which they conduct themselves as nurturers. We will critically examine the different ways in which food can be used as a frame for constructing wider ethnographic interpretations of both fieldwork and cultural processes in anthropological texts. With these three different writings on the theorizing of food in anthropology we will discuss the ways in which ethnographic monographs can shed unique light on more current questions regarding activism and riots, precariousness and migration, and legislation and global markets.
Syllabus: 3 books
@ David Sutton 2001 Remembrance of Repasts. An Anthropology of Food and Memory. Oxford: Berg (171 pages).
@ Marianne E. Lien 2015 Becoming Salmon. Aquaculture and the Domestication of a Fish. Oakland: University of California Press (171 pages).
@ Nefissa Naguib 2015 Nurturing Masculinities. Men, Food and Family in Contemporary Egypt. Austin: University of Texas Press (141 pages).
Seminargruppe: Dependency, welfare and work across the world.
Foreleser: Keir Cecil James Martin
Across the world the idea of ‘dependency’ is used to characterise particular populations as being backward, idle or in need of intervention. But what does it mean to be ‘dependent’ or to characterise others as being ‘dependent’. Far from being a taken for granted state of existence, what anthropological analysis demonstrates is that the kinds of relations that are characterised as ‘dependency’ vary greatly across cultural and political contexts and the effects of such characterisations are equally variable. In a wide variety of ethnographic contexts, understanding how particular relations and populations come to be described as dependent is central to understanding the rapidly changing political climate that we face today. In this workshop we explore how characterisations of dependency affect the nature of welfare and work for example in different contexts and ask what anthropological research can add to our understanding of this pressing social question.
Syllabus:
Books
Ferguson, J. 2015. Give a man a fish: reflections on the new politics of distribution. Duke University Press. 280 pages.
Wacquant, L. 2009. Punishing the Poor: The neoliberal government of social insecurity. Duke. 211 pages.
Articles and Book Chapters.
@ Ferguson, J. 2013. Declarations of Dependence. Labour, personhood and dependence. JRAI. 19. 223-243 (19 pages)
@ Martin, K. 2008. Your own buai you must buy: the ideology of possessive individualism in Papua New Guinea. Anthropological Forum. 17(3):285-298 (13 pages).
Strathern, M. 1999. New Economic Forms. Chapter 5 in Property, Substance and Effect: Anthropological Essays on Persons and Things. The Athlone Press. Pp. 89-116.
@ Meth, C. 2004. Ideology and social policy: ‘handouts’ and the spectre of ‘dependency’. Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa. 36:1-30
@ Morgen, S and Maskovsky, J. 2003. The Anthropology of Welfare ‘Reform’: New Perspectives on US Urban Poverty in the Post-Welfare Era. Annual Review of Anthropology. 32:315-338.
@ Langer, S and H?ylund, S. 2011. An Anthropology of Welfare: Journeying towards the Good Life. Anthropology in Action. 18(3):1-9 Send pdf.
Young, M, Dench, K and Devron, G. 2006. Managing Diversity. Chapter 11 in The New East End: Kinship, Race and Conflict. Profile Books. Pp. 205-223. Photocopy this.
Skeggs, B. 2004. The political rhetorics of class. Chapter 5 in Class, Self, Culture. Routledge. Pp.79-96
Narotzky, S and Smith, G. 2006. From Insecurity to Dependency. Chapter 4 in Immediate Struggles: People, Power and Place in Rural Spain. University of California Press. Pp.75-97.
Sharma, A. 2007. Engendering Neoliberal Governance: Welfare, Empowerment and State Formation. Chapter 2 in Logics of Empowerment: Development, Gender and Governance in Neoliberal India. University of Minnesota Press. Pp. 30-61
Total- 699 pages.
AVLYST: Seminar: Modernitet, seksualitet, kj?nn og slektskap.
Dette kurset er dessverre avlyst pga for f? deltakere. Vi h?per ? sette det opp igjen et senere semester.
Foreleser: Marit Melhuus
To nyere monografier danner utgangspunktet for dette kurset: Rucinda Lambergs Given to the Goddess og Aaron Goodfellows Gay Fathers, Their Children, and the Making of Kinship. Lambergs etnografi er forankret i s?r India og fokuserer (prim?rt) p? en praksis der unge dalit jenter giftes bort til en gudinne. De blir gudinnens ektemann, og dette skaper ”tr?bbel” i slektskapssystemet. Deres livsgrunnlag sikres blant annet gjennom ulike former for seksuelle transaksjoner, inkludert bordellarbeid. Dette utfordrer lovgivere. Goodfellows monografi er i hovedsak basert p? samtaler med homoseksuelle menn og deres opplevelser og omfavnelser av farskap i samtidige USA. Tematikken kretser om hva det betyr ? v?re ”i slekt”, former for intimitet, og i forlengelsen betydningen av en omsorgsetikk. Ogs? deres praksiser utfordrer ”systemet” p? ulikt vis, gitt det heteroseksuelle ekteskapets normative forrang. Begge b?kene problematiserer kj?nn, slektskap og seksualitet. Begge b?ker fokuserer p? de bredere sammenhenger og retter betimelig oppmerksomhet mot modernitet, sekularitet, staten og statlige redskaper, for eksempel lovgivning. Dermed legges grunnlaget for en komparativ diskusjon av noen sentrale temaer innen sosialantropologien.
Vi skal lese disse monografiene med et kritisk blikk for hva de forteller om betydningen av slektskap og kj?nn i moderne samfunn og i et krysskulturelt perspektiv. Hva frembringer et slikt fokus av forst?elser om folks livsverdener og livserfaringer? Hvilke sider ved sosialt liv tydeliggj?res ved ? rette det analytiske blikket p? slektskap og kj?nn? Hva mobiliserer forfatterne av kontekst og teoretiske perspektiver og hvilke diskusjoner plasserer de seg i?
Vi skal ogs? lese monografiene som eksempler p? antropologiske tekster. Vi ser da p? metodisk tiln?rming, etnografiens omfang og forankring, analytisk stringens og bokens oppbygging. Hvilke data mobiliseres for ? underst?tte analysen? Hvilken overbevisningskraft har boken? Innledningsvis leser vi noen artikler som kretser inn betydning av slektskap og kj?nn for samtidige antropologiske analyser.
Kurset baserer seg hovedsakelig p? student fremlegg.
Pensum
Goodfellow, Aaron. 2015. Gay Fathers, Their Children, and the Making of Kinship. New York: Fordham University Press.
Ramberg, Lucinda. 2014. Given to the Goddess. South Indian Devadasis and the Sexuality of Religion. Durham: Duke University Press.
@ Bear, L., K. Ho, A. Tsing and S. Yangisako. 2015. ”GENS: Feminist Manifesto for the Study of Capitalism”.
Carsten, Janet. 2004. ”Introduction: After Kinship” and ”Gender, Bodies and Kinship” (chapter 3) in After Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
McKinnon, S. and F. Cannell. 2013. ”The Difference Kinship Makes” in S. McKinnon and F. Cannell (eds) Vital Relations. Modernity and the Persistent Life of Kinship. Santa Fe: SAR Press.