Einführung in die Ethnologie sozialer Bindungen
Instructors: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Heike DrotbohmShortname: Soziale Bindungen
Course No.: 07.798.22_015
Course Type: Seminar
Recommended reading list
Miller, Daniel (2007) What is a Relationship? Is Kinship Negotiated Experience?, Ethnos, 72:4, 535-554.Sahlins, Marshall (2013) What kinship is, and is not. Chicago: Chicago UP.
Schuster, Peter, Rudolf Stichweh, Johannes Schmidt, Fritz Trillmich, Martine Guichard und Günther Schlee (2007) Freundschaft und Verwandtschaft: Zur Unterscheidung und Verflechtung zweier Beziehungssysteme. Konstanz: UVK.
Contents
From the very first breath - and even before that - the individual is involved in a complex web of social relationships. Twentieth-century anthropology’s close alignment with the concepts of "society" and "culture" relies on a notion of the world as essentially a bundle of relationships. In this seminar, we will deal with the anthropology of the social on the grounds of classic and more recent anthropological literature: with family and kinship, parenthood and siblingship, friendship and neighborhood, with the gender and generation-specific dimensions of these relationships as well as their significance for public politics. We will deal with the particular strength of ‘weak’ ties in social networks and ask about the possibilities of maintaining – or breaking – ties in transnational networks. We will also be interested in the question to what extent the circulation of things, the sharing of food or living under one roof can constitute relationships. And what is love, actually? All this and even more... !Dates
| Date (Day of the week) | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 10/25/2023 (Wednesday) | 12:15 - 13:45 | 01 715 HS 14 1111 - Hauptgebäude |
| 11/08/2023 (Wednesday) | 12:15 - 13:45 | 01 715 HS 14 1111 - Hauptgebäude |
| 11/15/2023 (Wednesday) | 12:15 - 13:45 | 01 715 HS 14 1111 - Hauptgebäude |
| 11/22/2023 (Wednesday) | 12:15 - 13:45 | 01 715 HS 14 1111 - Hauptgebäude |
| 11/29/2023 (Wednesday) | 12:15 - 13:45 | 01 715 HS 14 1111 - Hauptgebäude |
| 12/06/2023 (Wednesday) | 12:15 - 13:45 | 01 715 HS 14 1111 - Hauptgebäude |
| 12/13/2023 (Wednesday) | 12:15 - 13:45 | 01 715 HS 14 1111 - Hauptgebäude |
| 12/20/2023 (Wednesday) | 12:15 - 13:45 | 01 715 HS 14 1111 - Hauptgebäude |
| 01/10/2024 (Wednesday) | 12:15 - 13:45 | 01 715 HS 14 1111 - Hauptgebäude |
| 01/17/2024 (Wednesday) | 12:15 - 13:45 | 01 715 HS 14 1111 - Hauptgebäude |
| 01/24/2024 (Wednesday) | 12:15 - 13:45 | 01 715 HS 14 1111 - Hauptgebäude |
| 01/31/2024 (Wednesday) | 12:15 - 13:45 | 01 715 HS 14 1111 - Hauptgebäude |