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Veranstaltungsname	Seminar: 10-76-4-D2/WD2-05 Key Topics in Literature: Anthropology in Film and Fiction
Untertitel
Veranstaltungsnummer	10-76-4-D2/WD2-05
Semester	SoSe 2025
Aktuelle Anzahl der Teilnehmenden	16
erwartete Teilnehmendenanzahl	35
Heimat-Einrichtung	Anglistik/Amerikanistik
Veranstaltungstyp	Seminar in der Kategorie Lehre
Vorbesprechung	Dienstag, 08.04.2025 16:15 - 17:45, Ort: GW1-HS H1010
Erster Termin	Dienstag, 08.04.2025 16:15 - 17:45, Ort: GW1-HS H1010
Art/Form
Englischsprachige Veranstaltung	Ja

Lehrende

Anna Auguscik (LB)

Räume und Zeiten

GW1-HS H1010: Dienstag: 16:15 - 17:45, wöchentlich (13x)
GW2 B2900: Dienstag: 16:15 - 17:45, wöchentlich (1x)

Modulzuordnungen

Kommentar/Beschreibung

Twentieth-century anthropology, anthropologists and anthropological fieldwork have found a renewed interest in contemporary film and fiction. Such fictional – or fictionalised – representations are engaged in complex constellations of anthropological observation and situate anthropological inquiry in relation to other scientific disciplines as well as evolving cultural concerns. Crucially, the production of anthropological knowledge often seems to coincide with the death or destruction of those investigated. In this seminar, we will explore how specific examples of contemporary film and fiction address the history of the discipline of anthropology, as well as anthropology's distinctive position in knowledge production. We will analyse the representations of such complex constellations of observation and destruction in the context of debates from ‘Western science’ to ‘local knowledge’, from ‘cultural difference’ to ‘epistemic violence’. The course comprises in-presence meetings with group presentations, reading weeks and online research, as well as a planned visit to the Übersee Museum Bremen.
Please, buy and read the following novels:
• Lily King. Euphoria. London: Picador, 2014. [978-1-5290-9265-3]
• Hania Yanagihara. The People in the Trees [2013]. London: Picador, 2018. [978-1-5098-9298-3]
In addition, we will watch and discuss a documentary film about the 1948 American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land and its aftermath:
- Etched in Bone (2018, dir. Martin Thomas and Béatrice Bijon) [available via vimeo: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/etchedinbone]

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