Admission requirements
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Description
Titel Course: History; African Studies (TCA) Consumption and material culture in Africa since c. 1850
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
Mode of instruction
Lecture, tutorial, Independent study of academic literature, study visit, field trip, work placement
Assessment method
Paper.
Blackboard
Reading list
Robert Ross, Clothing: a global history;
Registration
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Contact information
Remarks
Language of instruction English.
This research seminar is also offered as part of the MA curriculum in African studies.