Søknadsfrist

Emnetype

Dette er et valgemne for masterstudenter i sosialantroplogi og kan inngå i andre samfunnsvitenskapelige masterprogram.

Kan tas som enkeltemne.

Emnet undervises intensivt i januar og februar.

Emnet tilbys med forbehold om at minimum 3 studenter registrerer seg for emnet.

Opptakskrav

Innhold

Hva lærer du

Etter bestått emne skal studentene ha følgende læringsresultat:

Kunnskaper og forståelse:

- ha oversikt over faghistoriske kontekster for bruk av identitetsbegrepet

- ha kunnskaper om alternative tilnærminger til sosiokulturelle felleskaper og forskjelligheter i moderne samfunn

Ferdigheter:

- kunne være kritisk til anvendelse av analytiske begreper og perspektiver

- kunne skille mellom analytisk og empirisk argumentasjon

Kompetanse:

- kunne identifisere og drøfte grunnlagstematikker knyttet til komparasjon

- kunne overføre teoretiske innsikter til utvalgte og nye empiriske forskningsfelter

Undervisnings- og eksamensspråk

Undervisning på norsk eller engelsk.

Eksamensspråk er norsk, svensk, dansk eller engelsk.

Undervisning

Eksamen

EKSAMEN:

Karaktergivende eksamen består av en hjemmeoppgave (essay) på ca.3500 ord (ca.10 sider) som skrives over oppgitt tema.

Karakterskala fra A-E for bestått og F for ikke bestått.

Sensur blir offentliggjort i StudentWeb senest tre uker etter eksamensdato.

KONTINUASJONSEKSAMEN:

Det arrangeres kontinueringseksamen ved karakteren F.

Pensum

BØKER (420 -470 sider)

Erikson, Thomas Hylland. Ethnicity and Nationalism: Anthropological Perspectives: Third Edition. Pluto Press. 220 Sider 

Case Study: Students will select one other book from a list provided; they can also submit a book of their choice for approval by the course responsible. Ca 200 ¿ 250 sider

KOMPENDIUM (289 sider)

Barth, Fredrik, 2000. ¿Boundaries and Connections.¿ In Cohen, Anthony, Signifying Identities: Anthropological perspectives on boundaries and contested values. London, Routledge. 19 sider

Billinger, Michael, 2007. `Another Look at Ethnicity as a Biological Concept Moving Anthropology: Beyond the Race Concept.¿ Critique of Anthropology. 27(1) 5¿35. 30 sider

Bjerkli, Bjørn, 2003: "People-nature relations: Local ethos and ethnic consciousness." In Roepstorff, A., Bubandt, N., & Kull K. (eds.): Imagining nature. Practices of Cosmology and Identity. Aarhus, Aarhus University Press. 20 sider  

Briggs, Jean, 2000 "Conflict Management in a Modern Inuit Community." In: Megan Biesele, Robert Hitchcock, & Peter P. Schweitzer (eds), Hunters and Gatherers in the Modern World: Conflict, Resistance, and Self-Determination, Providence, R.I.: Berghahn Books, 2000, 111-124. 13 sider

Cohen, Anthony P., 2000. Discriminating relations: Identity, boundary and authenticity. Introduction to Cohen, Anthony, Signifying Identities: Anthropological perspectives on boundaries and contested values. London, Routledge. 1-13. 13 sider

Comaroff, John and Jean Comaroff, 2009. Chapter 4: Commodifying Descent, American Style, 60¿85 OR Chapter 5: A Tale of Two Ethnicities. Ethnicity Inc. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 86-116. 25/30 s

Eidheim, Harald, 1971 "When Ethnic Identity is a Social Stigma." Aspects of the Lappish Minority Situation. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget. 20 sider

Gupta Akhil and James Fergusen, 1992. ¿Beyond Culture: Space, Identity, and the Politics of Difference.¿ Cultural Anthropology 7:1, pp. 6-23. 17 sider

Kapferer, Bruce, 1995: "Bureaucratic erasure. Identity, resistance and violence- Aborigines and a discourse of autonomy in a North Queensland town." In Miller, David (ed.): Worlds Apart. Modernity Through the Prism of the Local. London & New York: ASA Series, Routledge. 21 sider

Kenrick, Justin and Jerome Lewis, 2004: Indigenous peoples, rights and the politics of the term `indigenous¿. Anthropology Today, vol. 20 no. 2: 4-9. 6 sider

Kradolfer, Sabine, 2011: `(Self)essentialisation of Cultural Differences: How peoples and states play hide-and-seek¿ Anthropological Notebooks 17:2, 37-53. 17 sider

Ogbu, John and Herbert Simons, 1998. Voluntary and Involuntary Minorities: A cultural-ecological theory of school performance with some implications for education. Anthropology and Education Quarterly 29(2):155-188 20 sider

Olsen, Kjell, 2003. The Touristic Construction of the ¿Emblematic¿ Sami. Acta Borealia, 20(1):3-20 17 sider (you can also choose the Olsen article in Norwegian, in supplementary readings)

Ortner, Sherry B., 1998: "Identities: The Hidden Life of Class." Journal of Anthropological Research, vol. 54, no. 1, Spring. 17 sider

Saugestad, Sidsel, 2012. Regional and indigenous identities in the high north: enacting social boundaries. Polar Record 48, 229-335. 6 sider

Shneiderman, Sara, 2014. Reframing Ethnicity: Academic Tropes, Recognition beyond Politics, and Ritualized Action between Nepal and India. American Anthropologist, 116:2, 279¿295 16 sider

Warnke, Georgia, 2005. Race, Gender, and Antiessentialist Politics. Signs, 31:1 p. 93-116. 24 sider

GENDER CASE STUDIES (choice of 2, minimum 28 pages)

Goulet, Jean Buy, 1996. The `Berdache¿/¿Two spirit¿: A comparison of Anthrpoological and Native Constructions of Gendered Identities Among the Northern Athapaskans. In The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2:4, 683:701. (20 sider)

Lorway, Robert, 2008. Defiant desire in Namibia: Female sexual/gender transgression and the making of political being. American Ethnologist, 35:1, 20-33 (14 sider)

McGrellis, Sheena 2005, ¿Pure and bitter spaces: gender, identity and territory in Northern Irish youth transitions.¿ Gender and Education 17:5, pp. 515¿529 (14 sider)

Peletz, Michael G. 2006. ¿Transgenderism and Gender Pluralism in Southeast Asia since Early Modern Times.¿ Current Anthropology, 47:2 pp. 309-340 (32 sider)

Sylvain, Renee. 2011. ¿At the intersections: San women and the rights of indigenous peoples in Africa.¿ The International Journal of Human Rights 15:1, p. 89¿110 (20 sider)

Vale de Almeieda, Miguel. 1997. ¿Gender, masculinity and power in southern Portugal.¿ Social Anthropology, 5:2, 141-158. (17 sider)

Valentine, David 2007. ¿Imagining Transgender.¿ Chapter 1 in Valentine, David Imagining Transgender: an ethnography of a category, Durham, Duke University Press, 29-65 (36 sider)

Wilkins, Amy. 2012. ¿`Not Out to Start a Revolution¿: Race, Gender, and Emotional Restraint among Black University Men.¿ Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 41:1, 34¿65. (21 sider)

EDUCATION CASE STUDIES (choice of 2, minimum 29 pages)

Aveling, Nado, 2012. Indigenous studies: A matter of social justice, a matter of urgency. Diaspora, Indigenous and Minority Education, 6, 99-114. (15 sider)

Barnhardt, Carol. 1999. Standing Their Ground: The Integration of Community and School in Quinhagak, Alaska. Canadian Journal of Native Education, 23:1 100-116 (16 sider)

Hays, Jennifer. 2016. Who owns education? Schooling, learning and livelihood for the Nyae Nyae Ju|¿hoansi. Journal of Namibian Studies, 20 (2016): 37¿61 (24 sider)

Hogan, Maureen. 2008. The Tale of Two Noras: How a Yup¿ik middle schooler was differently constructed as a math learner. Diaspora, Indigenous and Minority Education, 2: 90-114. (25 sider)

Kanu, Yama, 2007. Increasing School Success among Aboriginal Students: Culturally Responsive Curriculum or Macrostructural Variables Affecting Schooling? Diaspora, Indigenous and Minority Education, 1:21-41 (20 sider)

Manuelito, Kathryn. 2005. The Role of Education in American Indian Self-Determination: Lessons from the Ramah Navajo Community School. Anthropology and Education Quarterly 36:1 73-87 (14 sider)

Murillo, Luz. 2009. `This Great Emptiness we are Feeling¿: Toward a Decolonization of Schooling in Simunurwa, Columbia. Anthropology and Education Quarterly40: 421-437 (16 sider)

SUPPLEMENTARY READINGS

Abu-Lughod 2002: ¿Do Muslim Women really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others.¿ American Anthropologist Vol. 104:3

Anderson, Benedict. 1991. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism. Revised. London: Verso.

Anderson, Astrid 2003: "Landscapes of Sociality. Paths, Places and Belonging on Wogeo Island Papua New Guinea." In Hoem, Ingjerd & Roalkvam, Sidsel (eds.): Oceanic Socialities and Cultural Forms. Ethnographies of Experience. New York & Oxford: Berghahn Books 19 sider

Appadurai, Arjun. 1996. Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. Minneapolis: Univeristy of Minnesota Press.

Banks, Marcus. 1996. Ethnicity: Anthropological Constructions. London: Routledge.

Barth, Fredrik (ed). 1969. Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: the Social Organization of Culture Difference. London: George Allen and Unwin. pp. 1-15.

Barth, F. 1994. Manifestasjon og prosess. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget. 

Briggs, Jean 1970. ¿Kapluna Daughter: Living with Eskimos.¿ Golde (ed.) Women in the Field, Aldine Publishing Company

Campbell, John R. and Alan Rew (eds.) 1999. Identity and Affect: Experiences of Identity in a Globalising World. Pluto Press, London.

Cohen, Anthony. 1994. Self-Consciousness: An Alternative Anthropology of Identity. London: Routledge.

Cohen, Abner. 1974. "The Lesson of Ethnicity". In Urban Ethnicity. (ed.) Abner Cohen. London: Tavistock. ix-xxxiii.

Comaroff, John and Jean Comaroff 2009. Ethnicity Inc. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.

Cornell, Stephen and Douglas Hartmann. 2007. Ethnicity and Race: Making Identities in a Changing World. Pine Forge Press, California.

Crenshaw, Kimberle 1989. Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics. University of Chicago Legal Forum, 139-167.

Donnan, Hastings & Thomas M. Wilson. 1999. Borders: Frontiers of Identity, Nation and State. Oxford: Berg.

Du Gay, Paul, Jessica Evans, & Peter Redman. 2000. Identity: a Reader. London: Sage

Fardon, Richard. 1987. `African ethnogenesis¿: Limits to the comparability of ethnic phenomena, I L. Holy, L. (ed.), Comparative Anthropology. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 20 s.

Geertz, Clifford. 1994. Primordial and civil ties. I J. Hutchinson and A. Smith (red.), Nationalism, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 29-34.

Gellner, Ernest. 1983. Nations and Nationalism. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

Giddens, Anthony. 1991. Modernity and Self-Identity. Cambridge: Polity

Gupta, Akhil & James Ferguson (eds.). 1997. Culture, Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press.

Hall, Stuart and Paul DuGay1996. Questions of Cultural Identity. London, Sage Publications

Handler, Richard 1994: "Is 'Identity' a Useful Cross-cultural Concept?" In Gilles, John R. (ed.): Commemorations. The Politics of National Identity. New Jersey: Princeton University Press 14 sider

Hobsbawm, Eric J. 1990. Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Hobsbawm, E.J. 1992 "Ethnicity and nationalism in Europe today", Anthropology Today, Vol 8(1):3-13.

Håland, Gunnar. 1969. Economic determinants in ethnic processes. In Ethnic groups and boudaries, edited by F. Barth. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget. 58-73. 15 s.

Jenkins, Richard, 1997. Rethinking Ethnicity: Arguments and Explorations. London: Sage Publications

Konstantinov, Julian, Kressel, Gideon M. & Thuen, Trond 1998: "outclassed by former outcasts: petty trading in Varna." American Ethnologist 25(4): 729-745 16 sider

Kymlicka, Will. 2001. Politics in the Vernacular: Nationalism, Multiculturalism and Citizenship. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Kymlicka, Will 2001: ¿Theorising Indigenous Rights¿ in W. Kymlicka: Politics in the Vernacular. Nationalism, Multiculturalism and Citizenship. Oxford University Press.

Malkki, Lisa. 1995 Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania. Chicago University Press.

Montagu, Ashley, 1962. The Concept of Race. American Anthropologist, 64:919-928. 10 sider

Moore, Henrietta. 1994. A Passion for Difference: Essays in Anthropology and Gender. Cambridge: Polity.

Olsen, Kjell, 2011. Fefo, reinsdyr og andre vederstyggeligheter: Om urfolk, staten og Finnmarkingene. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift vol. 22(2),116¿133.

Rapport, Nigel & Andrew Dawson (eds.) 1998. Migrants of Identity: Perceptions of Home and Improvement in a World of Movement. (Ethnicity and Identity). Oxford, New York: Berg.

Robbins, Richard H. 1973: "Identity, Culture and Behavior." In Honigman, J. (ed.): Handbook of social and cultural anthropology. Rand McNally series. 22 sider 

Saugestad, Sidsel. (2001): Dette besværlige urfolksbegrepet. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift 12 (1-2):34-41.

Shapiro, Ian and Will Kymlicka (eds) 1997. Ethnicity and Group Rights. New York Univeristy Press, New York.

Sökefeld, Martin 1999. ¿Debating Self, Identity, and Culture in Anthropology.¿ Current Anthropology, 40:4 pp. 417-448 (30 sider)

Snyder, Katherine A. 2002: "Modern Cows and Exotic Trees: Identity, Personhood and Exchange among the Iraqw of Tanzania." Ethnology, vol. 41, no. 2, 155-173 18 sider

Taylor, Charles 1994: ¿The politics of recognition¿ in Gutman (ed) Multiculturalism. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Thuen, Trond. 1991. Meaning and transaction in Sami ethnopolitics. ISV skriftserie A-41. Universitetet i Tromsø.

Warnke, Georgia. 2007. After Identity: Rethinking Race, Sex and Gender. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Wimmer, Andreas. 2013. Ethnic Boundary Making: Institutions, Power, Networks. Oxford Scholarship Online

Østerud, Øyvind. 1990. Norge i våre hjerter: Internasjonaliseringen og det nasjonale. Tidsskrift for Samfunnsforskning 31:211-25.