CREOLE AS A MODEL OF CULTURE
- Module code: AN606
- Credits: 5
- Semester: 1
- Department: ANTHROPOLOGY
- International:
 | Overview |
| | This course critically examines recent debates on the nature of culture. In the last several years concepts such as "cultural hybridity" and "creolisation" have come to the fore in anthropological attempts to deal with what appear to be new cultural forms and practices in a post-modern idiom. In an attempt to overcome what were seen as narrowly monolithic conceptions of culture, various models have been advanced which draw on "creole" linguistics and the ethnography of "creole" societies. Types of societies, languages and/or cultures considered "mixed, hybrid, creole," formerly confined to the margins of the ethnographic record, are being brought into the spotlight and even proposed as models for a new understanding of "globalised" humanity. This process has sparked a series of fairly intense debates. Have we been witnessing a process whereby once-pristine cultures are "brought into contact" under modernity, or was the entire concept of (unitary) culture an ideological fiction to begin with? To what extent is the "creole" concept of culture beholden to that which it seeks to displace?. |
 | Learning Outcomes |
| | On successful completion of the module, students should be able to: - As a result of this module, assuming that the student: 1) attends all lectures, diligently taking notes, and 2) completes all assigned readings, studying the concepts in those readings, and 3) completes all assigned work, giving full effort to that work, then it is reasonable to assume that by the end of this module the student will:
- 1) Be able to evaluate the validity of existing anthropological and linguistic research on creolisation, and
- 2) will be able to orally present relevant theoretical and ethnographic data pertaining to hybridity, language and globalisation, and
- 3) will be able to discuss critically, in essay form, recent theoretical and ethnographic works in Anthropology on hybridity, language and globalisation.
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| | Teaching & Learning methods |
| | - Six two-hour classes, comprising 12 hours of lecture and discussion format. Considerable critical reading will be required for this course and the participation mark will be based on preparation as well as participation.
| Delivery methods | Hours | | Lectures | 12 | | Labs / Practicals | 0 | | Tutorials | 0 | | Planned learning activities | 0 | | Independent student activities | 0 | | Total | 12 | |
| | Assessment |
| | - Continuous Assessment detail(s): Continuous assessment, equivalent to 5,000 words
| Assessment type | Weighting | Duration | | Continuous Assessment | 100% | | | University scheduled written examination | 0% | minutes | | Other | 0% | | | Total | 100% | minutes | - Pass standard: 40%
- 40%
- Penalties: Unauthorised late continuous assessments will be penalised.
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| | Repeat options |
| | - Repeat students may submit their continuous assessment work by a certain date in August. Students are responsible for familiarising themselves with this deadline.
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| | Pre-Requisites |
| | - BA 2.1 or permission to matriculate based on other considerations (e.g. experience in the field). All applicants subject to full Departmental approval.
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