Ethnology of America: September 2006

Ethnology of America

As MA student of American studies in INAES/ univeristy of Tehran, iam happy to have this opportunity to share my understanding about cultural studies and ethnology of America which is under Dr. Ameli`s instruction (head of the institution )with all of my classmates and also the people who are interested in this subject.Although iam in the very begining but hope that have fruitfull posts for all the visitors.

About Me

Name: Najmeh Mohammadkhani

Location: Tehran, Iran

The very first start of my enthusiasm to American studies goes back to my participation in the dialogue group held in Roros_ Norway in 2005. we had one week class of conflict resolution with American students.since that time i decided to focus my proficiency on American studies...

Saturday, September 30, 2006

What does this course mean to me?

By a glimpse on the course outline, "Cultural Studies and Ethnology of America" contains different cultural studies schools which are helpful tools to have multidimensional understanding about ethnics of America. As Tony Bennett indicated that cultural studies is dealing with relations of culture and power ( Barker, 2000:7), in this course we are going to know about different ethnics in America as different cultures and of course their power and hegemony in the united states. I think Power in America is very significant element especially when it goes to ethnics because ethnicity constitute through power relations between groups (Barker, 2000: 251). As we know America is not a homogeneous society, on contrary ethnical diversities are abundant in the United States. On the whole this course is of the most interesting subjects that I am really eager to know about specially that it is dealing with the concept of culture.

* Barker, Chris ( 2000) Cultural studies: Theory and practice, London, sage