Last Week: Issues

Reflection Posts: Issues

Africa, Fourth Edition

• Chapter 6 – Urban Africa: Lives and Projects
• Chapter 7 – Health, Illness, and Healing in African Societies
• Chapter 12 – African Politics and the Future of Democracy
• Chapter 13 – Development in Africa: Tempered Hope
• Chapter 14 – Human Rights in Africa

Jigsaw

Alex

Human Rights (14)

Development (13)

Health (7)

Urban (6)

Politics (12)

Doors

Activity 3: Collaborating on Syllabus

• Finding academic material
• Exploring African studies
• Common themes

Journal 3: Changing Perceptions

Exercise I: Perceptions

• Key lessons?
• Prep for Exercise 2 (Representations)

Next Week: Voices

Reflection Posts 4: From Shared References

• Pick a text someone else shared in Activity 3.
• Work through that text
  • Bill Reimer’s “reading better”: skim then focus
• Insight
• Connections (experiences, links, texts…)

Activity 4: Privilege Checklists

• Peggy McIntosh’s “Invisible Knapsack”, and others
• Document process
• Or create own checklist
• Privilege in general and/or in Africa

Journal 4: African Voices

Africanist Anthropology

Cradle of Anthropology

• Cradle of humanity
• Digs
• Linguistic diversity
• Colonial research

Interdisciplinarity

• Ethnographic approach
• Exposure to other fields
• Disciplinary dialogue

Africanist Ethnography

• Field research
• Traditions
• Crisis of Representation

Africanists

A Few Authors

• Bâ, Diop, Mudimbe
• Nkrumah, Kenyatta, Senghor, Nyerere
• Fanon, Soyinka, Achebe, Appiah
• Dieterlen, Griaule, Evans-Pritchard, Southall, Turner
• Cole, Ferguson, Comaroffs
• Grinker and Steiner

A Few ConU Resources

• African Studies Collection (Project MUSE)
• Africa, Fourth Edition
• Continent/Country Profiles
• Oxford Encyclopedia

Interdisciplinary

• Anthropology
• History
• Literature, Fine Arts, Humanities…
• Cultural Studies, Ethnic Studies
• Language, Linguistics
• Political Science
• Economics, Environment, Health…