Admission requirements
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Course Description
In this course, we will be investigating how the major shifts in the material culture of Africa over the last 150 years have come about. The main interests will be on the ways in which European forms clothing, housing, furniture, and domestic utensils have been adopted in African households, often as the result of migrant labout.
Further the course will investigate elite conspicuous consumption in relation to the major changes of material culture which have characterised Africa in the 20th century.
Course objectives
Further understanding of Africa, globalisation and the material world.
Timetable
See time table TCA
Mode of instruction
Research Seminar
Assessment method
Paper
Blackboard
Yes
Reading list
Robert Ross, Clothing: a global history
Registration
Exchange and Study Abroad students, please see the Study in Leiden website for information on how to apply
Contact information
Remarks
This research seminar is also offered as part of the MA curriculum in African studies.