This course will guide you through your first fieldwork experience. You are invited to choose a setting and a place where you will want to engage in encounters with others for six weeks. It may be a simple wooden bench at the entrance of an African railroad station deep in the bush where snacks and drinks are offered to passengers who have to wait for their delayed trains, it may also be a bourgeoise coffee house somewhere in Vienna or Paris, it may be a restaurant of an international fast-food chain in Tokyo, New York or Cape Town. You will be free to identify the place for your project, while experienced lecturers will help you to find a setting where you can successfully conduct such research. Those who will want to work together with other students and to have the opportunity to exchange regularly with experienced anthropologists can do so in the target area of this guided field course, which is Mali, Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire in West Africa.

Interested? Then join the zoom meetin on June 3rd at 12:15h. Please contact ethnologie@unibas.ch for the link.