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| ANTH0032-1 | Advanced Questions in Cultural Anthropology
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| Duration : | 30h Th |
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| Holder(s) : | Marc Lenaerts |
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| Language : | French language |
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| Course contents : | The course focuses this year on body and person. The subject is wide and we do not aim at a historical approach, nor at a comprehensive overview of the countless variety of local conceptions. Rather, we will start from a detailed analysis of some examples, mostly from Amazonia and Melanesia, in order to present various possible approach levels. They will be discussed both theoretically and methodologically, and systematically related with back insights into the European conceptions and practices. It will include the symbolic construction of bodies and persons, the underlying ontological thoughts, their relationship with perceptual processes and everyday practices, the explicit and the implicit, the universality of European dualisms, the coexistence of distinct, contradictory ontological frameworks. |
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| Course objective : | The course presents a subject particularly open to various approaches and a manifold questioning, which could be used later in many other anthropological fields, both here and elsewhere |
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| Prerequisites : | None |
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| Workshops : | None |
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| Organization : | The course takes place during the second term |
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| Written notes : | Power Point presentations on the ISHS virtual campus, with a short bibliography, and texts to be used either during next courses or as additional reading. |
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| Assessment : | Oral examination |
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| Contacts : | Marc.Lenaerts@ulg.ac.be |
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| Remarks : | Online notes on the ISHS virtual campus:
<http://campus.ishs.ulg.ac.be/> |
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