Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Kalpana Ram
Payel Ray
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Credit points |
Credit points
3
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
39cp or admission to GDipArts
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
In this unit a succession of lectures introduce you to India with a power/performance focus in mind. Many lectures will focus on religion as a field of power and performance. We will look at broad cultural themes such as experiences of divinity in different strands of Hinduism, caste and its performance as well as its forms of contestation in pre-modern India as well as in modern India, and the syncretic popular traditions of Islam which historically drew strength from local practices rather than simply seeking to displace them. A special lecture on food traces pleasure and performance of power. We examine Indian cinema in relation not only to 'Bollywood' but a hundred year old history through which we can trace phases of nation building and the workings of gender. The course emphasises bodily experience for students, through the use of visits to temples, to little India for a food experience, and basic lessons in dance moves.
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Name | Weighting | Due |
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Participation | 30% | 2 November |
Summary | 10% | 18 August |
Essay 2 | 30% | 27 October |
Essay 1 | 30% | 8 September |
Due: 2 November
Weighting: 30%
Attendance/participation mark is to be earned throughout the course by
(i) A discussion preparation guide with 2 components: 1 is filled during lecture and handed at end of lecture, containing main points covered in lecture. The second is brought to tutorial filled in based on readings for tutorial except for last page which contains best points raised in class discussion.
(ii) Where there is a class excursion to the temple, class participation mark will be based on a short account of the event, to be handed in to me a week later. See details in relevant week. Worth 5%. The Summary is designed to help student write essay 1. The aim here is to make sure student gains mastery over some concepts of power to use in analysing case studies for Essay 1 and in rest of course.
Due: 18 August
Weighting: 10%
Summary of key concepts on power introduced in lecture 3. To be applied for excursion Week 4 as well as Essay 1.
Due: 27 October
Weighting: 30%
Word length 3000
Use the theories of rasa and darshan to describe and analyse performance and spectatorship in any one area of performance covered in this course: you can choose either to re-explore in more depth what goes on in a Hindu temple or a couple of local dance/ music concerts.. Or choose a couple of films to analyse in detail but be sure to have some opportunities for participant observation. I suggest having a cou0ple of informal group viewings, if you have friends from South Asia, include them in one of the groups, see how differently they may be viewed and engaged with. A focus group discussion after a viewing is also a good idea.
Due: 8 September
Weighting: 30%
Based on the theories and concepts of power you have summarised in Summary 1, examine any one ethnography of gender and caste/class in India
lectures
tutorials
I Learn
E Reserve
A course Reader
Field excursions
Performance based media: dance, music, film, story telling
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22/07/2015 | Assessment dates moved forward by one day to coincide with day of class... |