African Ethnographic Contexts
Objectives
1. Provide a general introduction to the history of the relationship between Europe and Africa and raising awareness of Western discourses produced about Africa
2. Illustrate the diversity of contemporary Africa in political, economic, cultural and religious terms
3. Learn and discuss the theoretical and analytical perspectives of Africanist Anthropology
4. Provide tools and develop fundamental practical skills in the performance of professional roles in African contexts.
General characterization
Code
01106283
Credits
6.0
Responsible teacher
Francisco Manuel Machado da Rosa da Silva Freire
Hours
Weekly - 4
Total - 168
Teaching language
Portuguese
Prerequisites
N/A
Bibliography
- Bohannon, P. & P. Curtin, 1995. Africa & Africans. Illinois: Waveland Press.
- Grinker, R.R. & C. Steiner (eds.), 1997. Perspectives on Africa. A Reader in Culture, History, & Representation. Oxford: Blackwells.
- Iliffe, J., 1995. Os Africanos. História de um Continente, Lisboa: Terramar
- M´Bokolo, E., 2003/2007, África Negra. História e Civilizações. Lisboa: Edições Colibri.
- Moore, S. F., 1994. Anthropology and Africa. Changing Perspectives on a Changing Scene. Charlottesville, London: University of Virginia Press.
- Ntaragwi, M., D. Mills & M. Babiker, 2006. African Anthropologies. History, Critique and Practice, London, New York: Zed Books.
Teaching method
Lectures, presentations of case studies and realization of practical exercises.
Evaluation method
Continuous assessment - - written test (part I) - presentation of a case-study; realization of practical exercises - final report(100%)
Subject matter
I. Europe and Africa. Perceptions and interactions: historiographical and anthropological perspectives.
1. Africa in the European imaginary in the XV-XX
2. Anthropological and colonial construction of African societies
3. Discourses of power: colonial photography
4. Ethnicity and tribalism
5. Resistance, nationalism and decolonization
II. Issues and problems of ethnographic contemporary Africa
1. African economies as cultural systems
2. Territory and environment
3. Gender, family and sexuality
4. African religious beliefs and rituals
5. Islam and Christianity in the South of the Sahara
6. Education and cultural change
7. "Traditional" and modern health systems