BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.5.8//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news161@ethnologie.philhist.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200917T104459 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200923T161500 SUMMARY:Existential Transformations - Visual and oral pathways into a chang ing lifeworld DESCRIPTION:If you would like to join the Zoom session\, please contact s.b urri@unibas.ch [t3://page?uid=current].\\r\\n \\r\\nWithin a lifetime\, th e life-world of most societies in West Africa has changed tremendously. It affected and still affects all dimensions of life: In many places\, peasa nts can no longer cultivate the crops their parents once cherished\, they can no longer build the thatched houses that had shielded their ancestors for generations as natural building materials are no longer available\, th ey had to give up their rites and ceremonies as the youth migrated to citi es and into other agricultural areas. On the one side\, this change has br ought many locally rooted practices to an end\, but on the other\, it fost ered terrific creativity among those who had to make a living under the ne w conditions of life.\\r\\nEnvironmental change in the West African savann ah has been by far more profound and dramatic than in most European countr ies – and what local peasants have to face today may only be the beginni ng of much deeper transformations. Elderly people still remember when thei r fields produced more yams than they could eat – while the youth begin to doubt that this was ever true. Showing pictures of how landscapes and t he natural environment more generally have changed since the 1970s often p rovokes debates on how such change had been possible and whether that chan ge will ever come to an end. This talk brings visual media and oral testim onials together and shows how the two relate to each other and to the chan ging life-world in the West African savannah.  \\r\\nKeywords: environmen tal change\, social change\, memory\, photography\, oral history\, West Af rica.   X-ALT-DESC:

If you would like to join the Zoom session\, please contact s.burri@unibas.ch.

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W ithin a lifetime\, the life-world of most societies in West Africa has cha nged tremendously. It affected and still affects all dimensions of life: I n many places\, peasants can no longer cultivate the crops their parents o nce cherished\, they can no longer build the thatched houses that had shie lded their ancestors for generations as natural building materials are no longer available\, they had to give up their rites and ceremonies as the y outh migrated to cities and into other agricultural areas. On the one side \, this change has brought many locally rooted practices to an end\, but o n the other\, it fostered terrific creativity among those who had to make a living under the new conditions of life.

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Environmental change in the West African savannah has been by far more profound and dramatic than in most European countries – and what local peasants have to face today may only be the beginning of much deeper transformations. Elderly people still remember when their fields produced more yams than they could eat – while the youth begin to doubt that this was ever true. Showing pictur es of how landscapes and the natural environment more generally have chang ed since the 1970s often provokes debates on how such change had been poss ible and whether that change will ever come to an end. This talk brings vi sual media and oral testimonials together and shows how the two relate to each other and to the changing life-world in the West African savannah.&nb sp\;

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Keywords: environmental change\, social change\, memory\, photography\, oral history\, West Africa.  \;

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