The syllabus is comprised of books, articles in Readers and online articles.
Required books are purchased at Akademika bookstore or ordered from online booksellers, such as amazon.co.uk. Required books are also available at the University Library (provided the item is held).
Compendia can be purchased at the “Kopiutsalget” on the lower floor of Akademika bookstore. Valid student ID and semester card must be presented on purchasing compendia. If “Kopiutsalget” has sold out of a compendium please contact the department as early as possible in the semester in order that more may be obtained.
Many of the online articles require that you use a computer within the university network. If outside the university network, open your web browser and go to https://vpn.uio.no
Books
Bank, Leslie J. 2011. Home Spaces, Street Styles: Contesting Power and Identity in a South African City. London and New York: Pluto Press. 240 pages
Ferguson, J.: Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World Order, 2006. Durham: Duke University Press. 210 sider. Read Chapters 1, 2, 5, and 7. Total 131 pages.
Curriculum Articles in Readers/Compendia
De Boeck, F. (1998): "Ch. 1: Beyond the Grave. History, Memory and Death in Postclonial Congo/Za?re", pp 21-57 (36 pages) in Memory and the Postcolony. African Anthropology and the Critique of Power, edited by R.P. Werbner. Zed Books.
Hutchinson, S. E. (2000): "Identity and substance: the broadening bases of relatedness among the Nuer of southern Sudan", pp 55-72 (17 pages) in Cultures of Relatedness. New Approaches to the Study of Kinship, edited by J. Carsten. Cambridge CUP.
Geissler, P.W & R. Prince (2010) "Salvation and Tradition", pp.77-105 (28 pages) in The Land is Dying, edited by Geissler and Prince. Oxford: Berghahn.
Geschiere, P. (2006): "Witchcraft and the limits of the law: Cameroon and South Africa", pp 219-246 In Law and Disorder in the Postcolony, edited by J. Comaroff and J. L. Comaroff. Chicago and London: Chicago University Press. 27 pages.
Mbembe, A. (2008): “The New Africans: between nativism and cosmopolitanism”, pp 107-111 (4 pages) in Readings in Modernity in Africa, edited by Geschiere, P., Meyer, B. og P. Pels. Publisher: Indiana University Press.
Redfield P. (2010) “The Verge of Crisis:Doctors Without Borders in Uganda”, pp 173-195 (22 pages) in Contemporary States of Emergency: The Politics of Military and Humanitarian Interventions, edited by D. Fassin and M. Pandolfi. Zone Books.
Roitman, J. (2008): “A successful life in the illegal realm”, pp 214-221 (7 pages) in Readings in Modernity in Africa. edited by Geschiere, P., Meyer, B. & P. Pels. Publisher: Indiana University Press.
Curriculum Online articles
Bissell, William Cunningham (2005): "Engaging Colonial Nostalgia", Cultural Anthropology 20, no. 2: 215–248. 32 pages. culanth.org
Comaroff, Jean and John L. Comaroff (1992) "Ethnography and the Historical Imagination", Ethnography and the Historical Imagination. Boulder and Oxford: Westview Press. 42 pages. alexanderstreet.com
Comaroff, Jean and John L. Comaroff (2001): "Naturing the nation: aliens, apocalypse and the postcolonial state.", Journal of Southern African Studies 27 (3):627–651. 24 pages. jstor.org
Comaroff, J. & J. Comaroff (2000): "Occult Economies and the violence of Abstraction: Notes from the South African Postcolony", American Ethnologist. A Journal of the American Anthropological Association, 26 (2): 279-303. 24 pages. onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Cole, Jenifer (1998): "The work of memory in Madagascar", American Ethnologist 25 (4): 610-633. 23 pages. onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Flikke, Rune (2016): "Enwinding social theory: Wind and weather in Zulu Zionist sensorial experience", Social Analysis 60 (1). 20 pages. Available in FRONTER
Fullwiley, D. (2010): "Revaluating genetic causation: Biology, economy, and kinship in Dakar, Senegal", American Ethnologist 37(4): 638-661. 23 pages. onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Geissler, P. W. et al. (2013). "INTRODUCTION: SUSTAINING THE LIFE OF THE POLIS", Africa 83(04): 531-538.7 pages. academia.edu
Hunt, Nancy Rose (1992): "Colonial fairytales and the knife and fork doctrine in the heart of Africa", African Encounters with Domesticity, edited by K. T. Hansen. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. Comaroff: ethnography and the historical imagination. 28 pages. ACLS.Humanities E-book
Langwick, S. A. (2008): "Articulate(d) bodies: Traditional medicine in a Tanzanian hospital.", American Ethnologist 35(3): 428-439. 11 pages. onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Malkki, Liisa H (1992): "National Geographic: the rooting of peoples and the territorialization of national identity among scholars and refugees", Cultural Anthropology 7 (1):24–44. 20 pages. culanth.org
Mbembe, Achille and Janet Roitman (1995): "Figures of the Subject in Times of Crisis", Public Culture Winter, 7(2): 323-352. dukejournals.org
Nustad, Knut G. (2011): "Performing natures and land in the iSimangaliso Wetland Park, South Africa", Ethnos 76 (1):88–108. 20 pages.tandfonline.com
Packard, Randall M. (1989): "The ‘healthy reserve’ and the ‘dressed native’: discourses on black health and the language of legitimation in South Africa", American Ethnologist 16 (4):686–703. 17 pages. jstor.org
Prince, R.J. (2015): "Seeking Incorporation? Voluntary Labor and the Ambiguities of Work, Identity, and Social Value in Contemporary Kenya", African Studies Review 58(02): 85-109. 23 pages. Cambridge.journals.org
Sanders, T. (2003): "Reconsidering Witchcraft. Postcolonial Africa and Analytic (Un)certainties.", American Anthropologist, 105(2) : 338-352. 14 pages. onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Schumaker, Lynette (1996): “A Tent with a View: Colonial Officers, Anthropologists, and the Making of the Field in Northern Rhodesia, 1937-1960”, Osiris, 2nd Series, Vol. 11, Science in the Field (1996), pp. 237-258. 21 pages. jstor.org
Simone, A. (2008): “On the worlding of African cities”, Readings in Modernity in Africa, eds. Geschiere, P., Meyer, B. and P. Pels. Publisher: Indiana University Press, pp 135-146. 11 pages. jstor.org
Further Readings (not compulsory): download pdf-file