COGNITIVE ANTHROPOLGY

M-DEA/01 - 6 CFU - 2° Semester

Teaching Staff

ALESSANDRO LUTRI


Learning Objectives

The grounding of teaching to address to understood of conditions and posibilities of human life in the world (through epistemological and ontologica questions as the nature of social world, the transcendence, the imagination, the notion of person, the worldview), interpretated by analitic contemporary perspective of Joao De Pina-Cabral.

The in-depth of teaching to address the anthropological view through the ethnographic study of cosmovisions and cosmopolitics of social life in contemporary world.



Detailed Course Content

The grounding of teaching to address to understood of conditions and posibilities of human life in the world (through epistemological and ontologica questions as the nature of social world, the transcendence, the imagination, the notion of person, the worldview), ethnographically interpretated by monistic, realistic and universalistic contemporary perspective of Joao De Pina-Cabral.

 

The in-depth of teaching to address the anthropological view through the ethnographic study of conflictual cosmovisions and cosmopolitics of social life in contemporary world, showing the cultural fundamentals of relations between social and natural domain.

Keep in mind above all both the perspectivist cosmovisions of amazonian people, and technofeticist ideology produced by global industrial capitalism, in the contemporary industrial indian departments.



Textbook Information

Joao De Pina-Cabral, 2017, World. An Anthropological Examination, Chicago University Press;

A text of your choice among:

1) Jamie Cross, 2014, Dream Zones. Anticipatin Capitalism and Development in India, Pluto Press, London;

2) Eduardo Viveiros De Castro, 2014, Cosmological Perspectivism in Amazonia and elsewhere (saggio disponibile in pdf su Studium)

Additional English-language articles, relating to the individual volumes selected, will be made available on Studium.

Please remember that in compliance with art 171 L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.

For further information on sanctions and regulations concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian Association on Copyright).

All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.




Open in PDF format Versione in italiano