Παρουσίαση/Προβολή

(520208, 520051) -  Gerasimos Makris

Περιγραφή Μαθήματος

The course offers a critical and detailed discussion of issues emerging from an ethnographic project focusing on Sudan. After a thorough presentation of Sudanese early modern and modern history, we shall consider the phenomenon of fragmented identity among slaves and their now free descendants, as well as other subaltern populations of migrants from the periphery to the urban centres of the predominantly Arab Muslim Northern Sudan.

The ethnographic angle that we shall use is that of conversion to Islam and participation in spirit possession cults and associated magical practices. Specific topics related to the construction of positive self-identities, the emergence of counter-memory structures, the formation of alternative historical archives, the topographic crystallisation and concretisation of power relations, the unexpected uses of colonialism, and the merging of Islamism with local idioms of spirit possession, sufism and witchcraft will be considered.

With the completion of the course, students will be able to comprehend the logic and mechanics of long-term ethnographic research and will be conversant with the theoretical discussion of topics related to the politics and religious tradition of a multi-ethnic Middle Eastern society. They will also feel comfortable with the uses of history in the context of ethnographic research and anthropological analysis

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Τετάρτη 19 Σεπτεμβρίου 2018