History 384 - Gender,Power,and Oral History in Modern Africa

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Colgate University

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Staff This course explores three related themes in the modern history of Africa: the production and consumption of alcohol, women's social and political roles, and oral poetry and song. Examination of these themes - one might say, of wine, women, and song - focuses on how people exercise power, either to reinforce existing authority or to defy it. The course looks at how colonial rule and policy on alcohol affected African women in largely patriarchal colonial societies, how alcohol consumption has been tied to official and ceremonial displays of power, and how women (and others) have used song and oral poetry to speak out against injustice and hardship in defiance of social norms and state controls that otherwise silence their voices. Recommended: HIST 200. This course is crosslisted as ALST 384

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.colgate.edu

Phone Number:

(315) 228-1000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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