Anthropology of Africa

Pre-requisites: No prerequisites

Course objectives: The goal of course is to introduce students to scientific research of African cultures, specifically in the anthropological study of cultural contacts, ethno-cultural and religious history of the continent.

Course description: Ethno-cultural history of Africa. Introduction to the anthropological study of Africa. Anthropology of Africa before and after the colonial constellation. The contemporary African culture.

Learning Outcomes: The expected outcome is that of a competent and independent research relevant to the studying of African cultures.

Literature/Reading:

• Kovač, Senka Maska kao znak : tajni jezik zapadnoafričke maske. Beograd : Filozofski fakultet, 1996
• Kovač, Senka Marsel Griol i naučna preispitivanja na kraju dvadesetog veka. Beograd : Muzej afričke umetnosti, 2007
• Appiah, Kwame Anthony 1992 In My Father’s House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture. Oxford University Press, New York.
• Bohannan, Paul and Philip Curtin 1995 Africa and Africans. Prospect Heights, Ill.: Waveland Press
• Martin, Phyllis M. and Patrick O’Meara 1995 Africa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press
• Owusu, Maxwell 1978 Ethnography of Africa: The Usefulness of the Useless. American Anthropologist 80, 2: 310-334
• Parker, Melissa 1995 Rethinking Female Circumcision. Africa 65: 506-523
• Ramsay, Jeffress F. ed. 2006 Global Studies: Africa. Guilford, Conn.: McGraw-Hill