A common pitfall for scholars dealing with ethnographic materials and historical sources is that they fail to properly distinguish between the claims made by the scholar (etic) and the claims made by the sources (emic). This seminar invites PhD fellows to reflect upon this relationship in their own texts. As a text development seminar, it is more useful that the participants’ papers include some empirical material (and preferably some analysis of this material) and not only detached reflection on the emic/etic relationship.
Course convener: Professor Einar Wigen.
How do I sign up for the course:
Please send an email to kari.andersen@ikos.uio.no by 9 February.
The seminar is capped at 8 participants.
About the text:
Participants will each present a pre-circulated text of 5 000-10 000 words. All participants are expected to have read all texts, and to be able to say something meaningful about the emic and the etic in them. They will each be assigned as discussant of one text.
Deadline for paper: 16 February
Please send your text to both: kari.andersen@ikos.uio.no and ingrid.eskild@ikos.uio.no
ECTS points: 2
Program
0915 - 1100 Presentation of text with comments
1100 - 1115 Short break
1115 - 1230 Presentation of text with comments
1230 - 1300 Lunchbreak
1300 - 1500 Presentation of text with comments
Further information about the organisation of the seminar will be provided once
the papers are received.
Readings
Kenneth L. Pike (1967) Language in Relation to a Unified Theory of the Structure of Human Behavior, pp 37-72.
Harris, Marvin (1976), "History and Significance of the Emic/Etic Distinction", Annual Review of Anthropology, 5: 329-350
The readings will be distributed as soon as the list of participants is final.