COGNITIVE ANTHROPOLGY

The general aims of course are questioning the human sociality and relationality (human nature) from anthropological statement, as “a study with” of forms and conceptualization which “other” societies and cultures propose about sociality and relationality (in confront with those propose by west society and culture); and, by anti-foundationalist perspective, with experimental evidences about conditions and possibilities of sociality and relationality, in their several and changeable social and cultural forms.

Core arguments:

The Ethnography as product of experience of knowledge about ways of agency and think of others.

Focus:

1. the Cognitive Anthropology as study of process, forms and codes of expression of thought, in relation with the several social forms;
2. the anthropological study of spatial perception and categorization of world in which inhabit.

Core arguments:

Piasere, L., 2012, L’etnografo imperfetto. Cognizione e interpretazione nella conoscenza etnografica, Roma-Bari, Laterza.

Focus:

1. Blount, 2014, «A History of Cognitive Anthropology», p. 11-29; (issue availaible online in Studium, web page of theaching);
2. Caurana, Borghi, 2016, Il cervello in azione, Il Mulino, Bologna (cap. I, II, V, VI),
3. Tallè, C., 2016, Sentieri di parole. Lingua, paesaggio e senso del luogo in una comunità indigena di pescatori nel Messico del sud, Firenze, SEID.