Course Details
Country:
Netherlands
Institution:
Free University of Amsterdam Summer School
Course Title:
Ethnographic and Scientific Storytelling
Course Number:
Course Description:
Why do stories matter to academics, scientists and scholars? Do they just “collect” stories, or do they “tell” stories? This course takes a close look at stories and storytelling within the academic framework by introducing students to anthropological methodologies such as ethnographic observation-participation and sensory ethnography (visual, haptic and auditory). In other words, the course discusses how storytelling and story-listening are modes of scientific communication with the world that is studied and analysed. The course stresses ethnography, not in the form of “studying” the world as an otherness but rather, students are invited to reflect on their own positions, how their backgrounds, ways of seeing, sensing and being shapes stories. During the course, students will meet academics, activists, journalists, and refugee scholars who shall share their stories and students will learn from their storytelling. Accordingly, students conduct a mini-fieldwork, practice storytelling and deliver a story essay as their final submission.
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
ANTH 396
