Liebe Studierende,
es wird im SoSe24 noch ein weiteres Hauptseminar angeboten werden:  Anthropology from the Margins of South Asia, Prof. Hussain.

Kurzbeschreibung: The northern and northwestern regions of South Asia are often described as a “shatter zone,” a place where many ethnic groups converge to form new and syncretic form of cultures, religious traditions and subsistence strategies. These regions also have their distinct identities as unique cultural areas where, despite globalization, idiosyncratic cultural and social formations persist. Generally described as a lawless and ungoverned country in historical accounts, the British, the Chinese and the Russian Empires struggled to bring the regions under their respective spheres of influence. The struggle known as the Great Game was immortalized by Rudyard Kipling’s novel, Kim. The interaction between the British and the local society at the northwest frontier region of the empire is documented in a rich body of written material - travel and exploration accounts, hunting narratives, official administrative reports – through which the British came to know and control this region. In this course, we will explore how these regions have been represented and constructed in official and popular imaginings, and what role powerful political centers have played in its constitution. We will use histories of these regions to understand and illuminate some of the important themes in anthropology, such as empires, states and tribes; frontiers, marginality and subaltern agency; globalization, resistance and adaptation.

Bei Interesse melden Sie sich bitte bei Christina Graß M.Sc. (Christina Graß christina.grass@geo.uni-augsburg.de)