B-KUL-S0E61A Latin-America: from Colonisation to Globalisation

General information

Academic year: 2011-2012 Study points: 4 Language: English Difficulty: Advanced Duration: 26.0 hours  Periodicity: Taught in the second semester POC: POC Antropologie

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Taught by

Stallaert Christiane

Aims

This course ambitions to give insight into:
- the specificities of colonisation and decolonisation on the American continent
- contemporary processes of nation-building and deconstruction of the nation, racism and ethnicity, globalization and anti/alter globalization phenomena;
-the question of defining, crossing and negotiating boundaries between Self and the Other, between indigenous communities and colonial powers, between global and local realities and imaginations.
The course focuses on a broad range of anthropological issues, abranging different areas of Latin America (Mexico, the Caribbean, Brazil, Cono Sur, Andes, Central America).
 

Previous knowledge

Students are familiar with the methods and main theoretical currents in the social sciences in general, and in social and cultural anthropology in particular.
For students not familiar with anthropology, each course unit will be introduced by a brief state of the art of anthropological theorizing, research and bibliography, with specific reference to Latin America.
 

Content

Chapter1:  Coloniality and De-coloniality

 1.1. The Colonial Encounter and the Postcolonial Debate

1.2. Genocide and Memory

 Chapter 2: Transculturation and Conversion

 2.1. From caste to race; Afro Latin America

2.2. The conversion of a continent

 Chapter 3: ‘Imagined Communities’

 3.1. Reinventing the Nation

3.2. Indigenism

 Chapter 4: Borders, Diasporas, Transnationalism

 4.1. The US/Mexico border

4.2. Transatlantic Diasporas

 

This course is included in

Máster of Arts en Estudios Ibéricos e Iberoamericanos  
Master of Science in Cultures and Development Studies  
Master of Science in de sociale en culturele antropologie   (Migration, Minorities and Multiculturalism) (Verplicht)  
Master of Science in Social and Cultural Anthropology   (Migration, Minorities and Multiculturalism) (Required)  

Course Material

Articles and literature
Toledo / e-platform
Slides, transparencies, courseware

Activities

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Evaluation

		B-KUL-S2E61a Evaluation : Latin-America: from Colonisation to Globalisation
	Evaluation description Examination type:     written When?: final examination during examination period Evaluation type:     Closed book