Temat: ciekawy wyklad
Polski Instytut Antropologii serdecznie zaprasza na wykłady z cyklu
Kolokwia Antropologiczne
Odsłona IV: Antropologia tożsamości
prof. Anthony Cohen
A Personal History of the Anthropology of Identity
30 listopada - 3 grudnia 2009, Warszawa - Łódź - Kraków
Program wykładów:
WARSZAWA
30 listopada, godz. 17.00
Uniwersytet Warszawski, Pałac Kazimierzowski, Sala Senatu
ul. Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28
ŁÓDŹ
1 grudnia, godz. 17.00
Uniwersytet Łódzki, Instytut Historii, Sala Rady Wydziału
ul. Kamińskiego 27a
KRAKÓW
3 grudnia, godz. 17.00
Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Instytut Etnologii i Antropologii Kulturowej, sala 19
ul. Gołębia 9 (wejście od ul. św. Anny 6)
Prof. Anthony Cohen o tematyce wykładów:
“In these lectures, I will show how, in the course of my academic lifetime, ‘identity’ has moved from being a neglected (even pariah) topic in British social anthropology, to become a crucial and central subject of ethnographic study. This transformation was implicated in the change of focus from ‘structure’ to ‘culture’, a change which enabled us to reveal the relationship between individual and society as being problematic, rather than mechanical. The concept and process of identity is a key expression of this relationship.
1. (Warsaw) Identity: a neglected issue in British social anthropology
I will briefly review the personal history of British anthropology, from Malinowski to its “golden age” (Barth) after the Second World War, to show how and why the focus on social structure led to the marginalisation of the individual and the neglect of identity. I will then explain how both my personal history and my early ethnographic work in Newfoundland, and later in Shetland, led me to engage with the problem of identity. Finally, I will suggest that social and political change over the last forty years made ‘identity’ a central concern for our subject.
2. (Lodz) From social to personal identity
As anthropology began hesitantly to engage with the ideas of ‘self’, ‘selfhood’ and ‘self consciousness’, it became apparent that there are profound tensions between social identity — the identity which society allocates to a person — and personal identity — the ways in which people ‘know’ themselves and in which they wish others to know them. This tension provides much of the complexity and dynamism of social life. I illustrate this complexity by reference to my long fieldwork in Shetland. The requirement to recognise ethnographically such complexity raises fundamental methodological and philosophical questions about how anthropologists reveal human agency and creativity.
3. (Krakow) From personal to national identity: the case of Scotland
In this final lecture, I will complete the circle, by showing how attention to individuality and selfhood enables us to gain a more sensitive understanding of both the substance and power of collective forms of social identity, such as that of the nation. Using Scotland as an example, I will show how national icons, religious and secular traditions, artistic and cultural forms create an inchoate sense of nation-ness which can mask the social diversity of the nation and which enables national identity to be made meaningful by being personalised. I will finish by discussing critical reaction to this argument, and questioning the future of anthropological concern with identity in a globalised world”.
Anthony Cohen jest honorowym profesorem antropologii społecznej w University of Edinburgh i emerytowanym profesorem antropologii społeczno-kulturowej w Queen Margaret University w Edynburgu. Zajmował się lokalnymi politykami, wiele lat badań poświęcił zagadnieniom tożsamości, sekularnego symbolizmu, samoświadomości. Jest autorem i redaktorem naukowym wielu książek, m.in.: The Management of Myths: the Politics of Legitimation in a Newfoundland Community, The Symbolic Construction of Community, Self Consciousness: an Alternative Anthropology of Identity, Symbolising Boundaries: Identity and Diversity in British Cultures (red.), Anthropological Perspectives on Boundaries and Contested Values (red.).
Projekt „Kolokwia Antropologiczne” realizowany jest dzięki dofinansowaniu Ministerstwa Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego.
Partnerzy projektu:
- Instytut Etnologii i Antropologii Kulturowej Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
- Instytut Etnologii i Antropologii Kulturowej Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
- Instytut Etnologii i Antropologii Kulturowej Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Wstęp wolny.
Informacje:
kolokwia@pia.org.pl
http://pia.org.pl
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