ARHA391

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ARHA391

West African History and Material Culture Since 1800 ARHA391 SP

Not Currently Offered

This course is an advanced seminar continuation of ARHA390 that will cover advanced problems in the historiography of West African cultures since 1800. Readings will focus on the intellectual and cultural history of the Guinea Coast from Ghana to Senegal and on issues of historical methodology and critical evaluation of sources -- oral and written, as well as artifacts of material culture -- for the Western Sudan (the Mande cultural heartland). Students will each be required to write a substantial essay that will represent original research into secondary sources (and, in some cases, photographs). The course will be run along the model of a graduate seminar, with each student expected to make an oral presentation to the rest of the class, based upon his or her work in progress. During a field trip to New York, students will visit the Museum for African Art and the African collection of the Brooklyn Museum. We will also have one or two guest lecturers who will speak about their own published work, which students will have read in advance.

MAJOR READINGS

T.C. McCaskie, LIFE AND THOUGHT IN
NINETEENTH CENTURY ASHANTI
Odile Goerg, POUVOIRS COLONIAUX:
Annie Coombes, REINVENTING AFRICA

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Research paper.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

Prerequisite of ARHA390. Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.

COURSE FORMAT: Seminar

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UG Credit: 1.00

Prerequisites: ARHA390

Last Updated on MAR-22-1999

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