MA Ü. Ethnographische Repräsentation und Forschungsethik: Memory, History, and the Archive: Methods of Historical Anthropology
Instructors: Dr. Grit WesserShortname: Ü Ethnogr.Repräs
Course No.: 05.174.615
Course Type: Übung mit Exkursion
Recommended reading list
Selected Course Readings:- Edwards, Elizabeth. 2002. Raw Histories: Photographs, Anthropology and Museums. Abingdon: Routledge.
- Radstone, Susannah (ed.). 2000. Memory and Methodology. Oxford & New York: Berg.
- Stoler, Ann Laura. 2008. Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
- Trundle, Catherine, and Chris Kaplonski. 2011. "Tracing the Political Lives of Archival Documents." History and Anthropology 22 (4): 407–414.
- Zeitlyn, David. 2012. "Anthropology in and of the Archives: Possible Futures and Contingent Pasts. Archives as Anthropological Surrogates." Annual Review of Anthropology 41 (1): 461–480.
Additional information
Grit Wesser (she/her) is a social anthropologist working on the relationship between kinship and ‘the state’. She has explored this connection through ethnographic and historical fieldwork on a life cycle ritual (her PhD research in eastern Germany) and on people’s knowledge attainment about the practices of the state security apparatus in the former GDR/East Germany (interdisciplinary research project ‘Knowing the Secret Police’).Grit earned her MA (Hons) in Social Anthropology and Politics (2011) and her PhD in Social Anthropology (2016) from the University of Edinburgh. She held teaching and research positions at the University of Edinburgh, Newcastle University, and the International College of Dundee. Her research interests include kinship and gender, memory and history, ritual and personhood, the anthropology of surveillance, and the anthropology of food with a regional focus on (East) Germany.
Dates
| Date (Day of the week) | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 05/16/2024 (Thursday) | 14:15 - 15:45 | 00 121 (K5) Übungsraum 9139 - Am Kisselberg |
| 05/23/2024 (Thursday) | 14:15 - 15:45 | ZAP Medienwerkstatt |
| 05/27/2024 (Monday) | 08:15 - 22:45 | Exkursion |
| 05/28/2024 (Tuesday) | 08:15 - 22:45 | Exkursion |
| 05/29/2024 (Wednesday) | 08:15 - 22:45 | Exkursion |
| 05/30/2024 (Thursday) | 08:15 - 22:45 | Exkursion |
| 06/06/2024 (Thursday) | 14:15 - 15:45 | 00 121 (K5) Übungsraum 9139 - Am Kisselberg |
| 06/13/2024 (Thursday) | 14:15 - 15:45 | 00 121 (K5) Übungsraum 9139 - Am Kisselberg |
| 06/20/2024 (Thursday) | 14:15 - 15:45 | 00 121 (K5) Übungsraum 9139 - Am Kisselberg |
| 06/27/2024 (Thursday) | 14:15 - 15:45 | ZAP Medienwerkstatt |
| 07/04/2024 (Thursday) | 14:15 - 15:45 | ZAP Medienwerkstatt |
| 07/11/2024 (Thursday) | 14:15 - 15:45 | ZAP Medienwerkstatt |
| 07/18/2024 (Thursday) | 14:15 - 15:45 | ZAP Medienwerkstatt |