Africanist Anthropology

ANTH326/4A – Peoples & Cultures of Sub-Saharan Africa

Meeting 7: March 2, 2015

Last Week:

Reflection Posts 4: From Shared References

Jigsaw

Board

Ritual/Religion/ Music

Development

Feminism

Fashion/Clothing

Doors

Activity 4: Privilege Checklists

  • Common effects
  • How can we deal with privilege?

Journal 4: African Voices

Next Week: Represent

Reflection Posts 7: Books Online

Exercise II: Representations

  • Find an African representation
    • Object, text, song, meal, film, etc. created by African(s)
  • What does it tell you about Africa?
  • How different from you/us? How similar?
  • What context for this representation?

Journal 5: Representatives

Crisis of Representation

Before and After

  • Early anthropology
  • Colonial anthropology
  • Structuralism, functionalism...
  • Interpretive approaches
  • Writing Culture (Clifford & Marcus 1986)
  • Reflexivity
  • Dialogue
  • Omohundro's Model

ANTH326, Meeting 7

By Alexandre Enkerli

ANTH326, Meeting 7

Slides for the seventh class meeting in Alex Enkerli’s ANTH326 course (Peoples and Cultures of Sub-Saharan Africa) at Concordia University.

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