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Department of Social Anthropology

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SOA-1003: Communication and meaning

Work Load 10 credits (ECTS)
Objectives The course is part of a bachelor''s degree. It can also be used as an optional course in other bachelor programmes in social science.
Contents The course will provide students with insights into anthropological approaches to interpersonal communication, with a focus on cognition, categorisation and the use of symbols. The course will give an introduction into how language, structures of meaning and forms of representation are developed and expressed in social interaction. Examples of worldviews, cosmologies and religion will be analysed in relation to strategies of action and ritual modes of expressions.
Form of teaching Lectures and seminars.
Compulsory teaching Essay
Assessment One term paper and one written exam. During the course the student writes an obligatory term paper of maximum 2000 words (circa 5-6 pages) on an assigned topic. The course teacher evaluates the essay as approved/not approved after an obligatory oral examination. This part has to be completed before the student proceeds to the written exam. The grade-givien exam consists of one 5 hours written exam in the course syllabus after the course lectures.
Examination semester Autumn
Date(s) of written examination 13.12.2005 The exam date is preliminary and may be subject to change. Definitive exam date will be announced on the notice boards at the faculties in the beginning of May for the spring semester and in the beginning of November for the autumn semester.
Type of course Theoretical subject.
Level of course/Year of study Normally first or second year.
Contact person/lecturer Mayvi Johansen
Recommended reading/syllabus See homepage.
Language of instruction Norwegian
Homepage http://uit.no/antropologi/2111/3
Timetables http://timeplan.uit.no/emne.php?department=ALLE&module=SOA-1003-1

Teaching autumn 2005 Orienteringsmøte: Tirsdag 16. aug. kl. 12:15 - 14:00. Rom 4.213 (Teorifagbygget hus 4, plan 2). Emneansvarlig: førsteamanuensis Jorun Bræck Ramstad
Forelesninger	Første forelesning: Tirsdag 23. august kl. 10:15 - 12:00 Rom: 5.402, hus 5, plan 4 i Teorifagbygget. Foreleser Jorun Bræck Ramstad
Seminarundervisning	I tillegg til forelesningene kan studenten melde seg opp på seminargruppe. Denne undervisningsformen krever at studentene deltar aktivt. Første seminarundervisning: tirsdag 30. august, kl. 12.15 - 14.00, rom 5.402
Semesteroppgave	Obligatorisk semesteroppgave: utlevering 30. september kl 10.00 innlevering 7. oktober kl. 14.00. Innlevering og utlevering foregår i ekspedisjonen for IPS/ISA på plan 6, hus 5 i Teorifagbygget. Vurderes som godkjent/ikke-godkjent. Oppgaven må godkjennes for å kunne gå opp til endelig eksamen. Obligatorisk muntlig tilbakemelding med faglærer i uke 42. Oversikt tid/sted for tilbakemelding blir lagt ut som egen lenke under "Utfyllende informasjon" etter innleveringen, samt hengt opp på oppslagstavla vis-á-vis undervisningrommet.
Skoleeksamen	5-timers skoleeksamens avholdes 13. desember 2005. Kl.: 09.00-14.00 Lokaler: Åsgårdveien 9. Ta bussrute 26 fra byen eller Giværbukta.

Utfyllende informasjon

Skriveseminar 1. november

ISA arrangerer skriveseminar for alle bachelorstudenter i sosialantropologi, samt enkeltemnestudenter som tar SOA-emner i høst.

Dato: 1. november
Kl: 13:15 - 16:00
Rom: 5.302 (i etg. under ISA's undervisningsrom)

For mer informasjon se Program samt notat med Skrivetips.

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Oversikt over obligatorisk veiledning på semesteroppgave i uke 43

Oversikt veiledning NB! Oversikten er redigert 11. oktober, og det er foretatt noen endringer mht rom og tider på enkelte av dere.

Undervisningsplan

Fullstendig undervisningsplan for SOA-1003 med oversikt over tema og litteratur til hver forelesning finner du her. Dersom det underveis i semesteret blir gjort endringer i planen, vil det bli meldt fra om på denne siden.

Se her for en samlet oversikt over undervisningsukene for SOA-1002, SOA-1003 og SOA-1004.

Syllabus
Titler merket * trykkes i kompendium som finnes til salgs i Akademisk kvarter.

Monografi:
Obeyesekere, Gananath 1981: Medusa’s Hair: An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago & London 200 sider

1. Tegn, koder, kommunikasjon

* Briggs, Jean 1997: “From Trait to Emblem and Back: Living and Representing Culture in Everday Inuit Life”. Arctic Anthropology 34 (1): 227-235 8 sider

Heraldstveit, Daniel & Tore Bjørgo 1992: Politisk kommunikasjon – introduksjon til semiotikk og retorikk. Tano, Oslo, kap. 1-6. 83 sider

* Pink, Sarah 2001: “Sunglasses, suitcases and other symbols. Intentionality, creativity and indirect communication in festive and everyday performance”. I Henry/Watson (ed.): An Anthropology of Indirect Communication. ASA Monographs 37, Routledge, London & New York. 14 sider

* Kohn, Tamara 2001: “Don’t talk – blend. Ideas about body and communication in aikido practice”. I Henry/Watson (ed.): An Anthropology of Indirect Communication. ASA Monographs 37, Routledge, London & New York. 16 sider

* Saugestad, Sidsel 1972: “The Two Sides of the House”. I Cohen, A (ed.): Belonging. Identity and Social Organization in British Rural Cultures. Manchester University Press. 34 sider

Mauss, Marcel 2004: Kropp og person: To essays. Cappelens Forlag, Oslo. Pensum fra side 65. 71 sider

2. Kultur og mening

* Bateson, Gregory 1972: “Form Substance and Difference”. I Steps to an ecology of Mind. 17 sider

* D’Andrade, Roy.G. 1990 [1984]: “Cultural meaning systems”. I Schweder, R. & Le Vine, R. (ed.): Culture Theory. Essays on Mind, Self, and Emotion. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 31 sider

* Hall, Stuart 1996: “What is this ‘black’ in black popular culture?” I Morley/Chen (ed.): Stuart Hall. Critical dialogues in Cultural Studies. Routledge, London & New York. 11 sider

* Ramstad, Jorun Bræck 2003: “Maori are different, but we are similar for particular reasons: Dynamics of belonging in social practice.” I Hoëm & Roaldkvam (ed.): Oceanic socialities and cultural forms. Ethnographies of experience. Berghahn Books, New York & Oxford. 21 sider

* Sørum, Arve 2003: “Sociality as Figure. Bedami Perception of Social Relationships” I Hoëm & Roaldkvam (ed.): Oceanic socialities and cultural forms. Ethnographies of experience. Berghahn Books, New York & Oxford. 15 sider

3. Symboler og rituell praksis

* Douglas, Mary 1991 [1975]: “Pollution”. I Implicit Meanings. Routledge, London. 13 sider

*Geertz, Clifford 1973: “Ritual and Social Change: A Javanese Example” I Interpretation of cultures. Basic Books, Inc. 28 sider

Gluckman, Max 1960: “The logic in Witchcraft” I Eriksen, T.H. (Red.): Sosialantropologiske grunntekster. Ad Notam, Gyldendal, Oslo. 16 sider

* Krogstad, Anne 1986: “Pønkere og symbolendring. Fra ekstern provokasjon til intern moralisme”. Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning, nr. 6. 27 sider

* Ortner, Sherry 1973: "On Key Symbols". American Anthropologist 9 sider

Turner, Victor 1970: “Betwixt and Between. The liminal Period in Rites de Passage”. I Eriksen, T.H. (Red.): Sosialantropologiske grunntekster. Ad Notam, Gyldendal, Oslo. 15 sider

* Worsley, Peter 1995: “Millenarian Movements in Melanesia”. Journal of the Rhodes-Livingston Institute, Vol. 21, s. 337-352. 16 sider

4. Aktuell debatt

* Shore, Chris 2002: “ Anthropology’s Identity Crisis: The Politics of Public Image”. I Benthall, J. (ed.): The Best of Anthropology Today, Routledge, London & New York. 8 sider

* Nader, Laura 2004: “Harmony Coerced Is Freedom Denied”. I González, R.J (ed.): Anthropologists in the Public Sphere: Speaking out on War, Peace, and Amercian Power. University of Texas Press, Austin. 4 sider

* González, Roberto 2004: “Unconventional Anthropology: Challenging the Myths of Continuous War”. I González, R.J (ed.): Anthropologists in the Public Sphere: Speaking out on War, Peace, and Amercian Power. University of Texas Press, Austin. 12 sider

Total 668 sider