27091		6:00-8:00	R			MOORMAN
A portion of the above section reserved for majors

This is a graduate colloquium that will interrogate the relationship
between politics and culture in various periods and places in
Africa.  Our primary temporal focus will, however, be on the colonial
period and the varieties of ways in which African men and women re-
thought and re-configured cultural practice and political community.
Our premise is that culture is not epiphenomenal to political and
economic processes but rather constitutive of them.  We will look at
new works and ‘classics’ that study popular cultural practices (e.g.
music, dance, radio, film, dress) as well as cultural practices and
processes that involve spirituality/religion, public discourse and
human-environmental relations.  Course requirements will include
leading discussion and two short papers.