How do stories grip people’s imaginations and shape their lives? How do stories link tellers and listeners, claim status, encode values, sacralize the status quo, and also inspire change by providing imaginative alternatives? How are stories transformed through expression in different media, at different historical moments, and the goals of scholars? This two week intensive course explores oral traditions in South Asia. Studying the social life of stories, the course provides ways to think about region, gender, religion, caste, kinship, social movements, the impact of mass media, and cultural continuities in diaspora. The course also offers methods for identifying, recording, transcribing, writing up and interpreting such genres as folktales, legends, myths, epics, oral histories, family stories, and life histories. While readings will draw largely on South Asian materials, the research project may apply these insights and methods to narratives from elsewhere in Asia or the Pacific.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:
1. Engage with Asia, particularly South Asia, through its diversity of narrative traditions2. Display an understanding of the basic coordinates of cultural diversity in South Asia, in relation to multiple versions of stories
3. Use interdisciplinary theories of narrative to identify how stories selectively reshape materials
4. Demonstrate the skills to lift stories from the flow of conversation or historical data
5. Demonstrate the ability to work collaboratively
6. Communicate knowledge about Asia through narratives and their analysis.
Other Information
In 2016, the face-to-face component of this course will run from 10am to 3pm, on
the following days:
Monday 20 June - Thursday 23 June
Monday 27
June - Thursday 30 June
Indicative Assessment
1. Preparation of two questions on readings to guide discussion for two assigned sessions100-150 words X2 (20%) 1, 2, 3, 5
2.Field collection and transcription of an oral story
500 words (20%) 1, 2, 3, 4
3.15-minute presentation of project in class (10%) 5, 6
4.Final essay expanding on earlier paper and analytically situating the narrative in relation to class readings.
2,000 to 2,500 words (50%) 1, 2, 3, 4, 6
Students will be required to record their own presentations
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Fees
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- Student Contribution Band:
- 1
- Unit value:
- 6 units
If you are an undergraduate student and have been offered a Commonwealth supported place, your fees are set by the Australian Government for each course. At ANU 1 EFTSL is 48 units (normally 8 x 6-unit courses). You can find your student contribution amount for each course at Fees. Where there is a unit range displayed for this course, not all unit options below may be available.
| Units | EFTSL |
|---|---|
| 6.00 | 0.12500 |
Course fees
- Domestic fee paying students
| Year | Fee |
|---|---|
| 2017 | $2856 |
- International fee paying students
| Year | Fee |
|---|---|
| 2017 | $4080 |
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Winter Session
| Class number | Class start date | Last day to enrol | Census date | Class end date | Mode Of Delivery | Class Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6524 | 09 Jul 2018 | 13 Jul 2018 | 13 Jul 2018 | 02 Aug 2018 | In Person | N/A |
