In this course, we’ll return to the so-called founding texts of anthropology to interrogate, historicise and analyse them critically. We look at the broad historical development of a number of anthropological schools of thought, the controversies they inspired and how these developments have marked very particular conversations about social structure, cultural change and the position of the individual (and bodies) vis-à-vis society. We move from the first fieldworkers and anthropologists working in colonial contexts to the anthropologies of a postcolonial age that increasingly undermined the grand theories that inspired the anthropological enterprise as they embraced feminist, literary and phenomenological analyses.
- Facilitator: Bernard Dubbeld
- Facilitator: Genay Gabriels
- Facilitator: Daniel Juan Gouws
- Facilitator: NDABUKO BANELE Luvuno
- Facilitator: ILANA Van Wyk