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ANTH381: Body, Place and Postcolonial Experience
This unit introduces students to the centrality of the body in human experience, taking place, and what it means to be in place, as its opening theme. Drawing on the resources of powerful descriptive ethnographies which create a vivid sense of what it is to be shaped by places, the unit examines the ongoing effects of colonialism both on our sense of place and on the body. We consider the range of post-colonial experiences, from the positive creative flows of hybrid cultural creativity, to illness and trauma, to the increased role of memory and the urge to document the past, linked with the strong emotions of loss and nostalgia. Gender is emphasised as a central dimension of post-colonial experience, with special attention to anthropology's documentation of the wide variety of ways in which post-colonial experience has been quite different for men and for women. The unit makes special use of the convenor's research on gender, maternity, music, dance, as well as the post-colonial state. This unit provides strong grounding in three intersecting areas: anthropology, post-colonial theory, and a specific theoretical way of approaching experience called phenomenology.
| Credit Points: | 4 |
| Contact Hours: | 3 |
| When Offered: | D1 - Day; Offered in the first half-year |
| Staff Contact(s): | Dr Kalpana Ram |
| Prerequisites: |
30cp or admission to GDipAnth |
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| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: | Department of Anthropology |
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