[ Lehre Welche Filme? geeignete Lehrveranstaltungen Einführung in die Kulturwissenschaften Exploring Culture Representation ]                 

Week 7 – Religion and the Supernatural:

• Balinese Cosmology: Gods, Demons and Mortals;
  Film: : “Three Worlds of Bali”
  
• Bali – Temples and Technology;
  Film: “The Goddess and the Computer” by Stephen Lansing
  
• Lab: Discussion: Religion and the Supernatural
  

Week 8 – Religion “High” and “Low”: “Folk Traditions” and “Great Traditions”:

• Guest Speaker Stephen J. Lansing;
  
• “Shamans, Housewives and Other Restless Spirits”;
  Film: “Korean Female Shamans”
  
• Lab: Discussion: Shamans: Shams or Psychology Healers?
  

Week 9 – Culture Contact and Culture Change:

• Personal Change: Filming the Life of N!ai;
  
• Social Change: From Hunter-Gatherers to Welfare;
  
• Lab: The Life History as Research Method.
  Film: “N!ai: The Story of a !Kung Woman” (1980) by John Marshall (IWF-Verleih, DER)
  

Week 10 – Kinship, Gender and Exchange:

• Kinship and Gender;
  
• The Trobriand Islanders: Matrilineal Kinship and Exchange;
  
• Lab Life History as Research Method
  Film: “Trobriand Cricket” by Kim McKenzie (IWF-Verleih)
  

Week 11 – Culture Contact and Exchange:

• Culture Contact and Exchange;
  
• Political Economy in Tribal Societies: Exchange in Highland Papua New Guinea;
  
• Lab: Gender and Exchange in the Trobriand Islands
  Film: “Ongka’s Big Moka” Published in the Granada Disappearing World Series
  

Week 12 – Economy and Exchange:

• Economics in Cross-Cultural Perspective: “Gift” Economies versus Capitalist Economies;
  
• The Diplomacy of Exchange: Making Peace in Yanomamo Society;
  
• Lab: Discussion of “Gift Exchange” and Commodity Exchange
  Film: “The Axe Fight” by Timothy Asch; “Tapir Distribution" (IWF-Verleih, DER)