Course Description

AN457 Seminar: Cosmology and Modes of Thought, A Cross-Cultural Perspective 0.5

An examination of literature concerning the problems encountered by anthropologists who endeavour to comprehend and to translate the collective representations of non-Western peoples. Topics covered include: the study of systems of classification from Durkheim and Mauss to Lévi-Strauss, Douglas and Bourdieu; the problem of relativity (Lévy-Bruhl, Evans-Pritchard, Whorf, Needham, Winch and Horton); ethnoscience and more recent developments in cognitive anthropology (D'Andrade, Nader).†

Prerequisite: AN371.

Official electronic version updated on November 10, 2000

M. Watson, Editor