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| ANTH0057-1 | Anthropology of human-animal relationships - 1st part : theory
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| Duration : | 30h Th |
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| Lecturer : | Véronique Servais |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language |
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Organisation and examination :
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| Teaching in the first semester, review in January |
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Course contents :
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| This year, the theme of the seminar is the anthropology of animals, understood as the anthropology of human-non human relationships. The course is divided in three parts :
1- Setting the basis. The first part discusses the question of the "Great Divide" (Latour) between natural and social sciences. This is achieved through the presentation of historical and contemporary examples (the birth of the scientific study of animal behaviour, evolutionary psychology and how it naturalize the social world, etc.). This first aims also at getting students acquiainted to the explanatory models and thinking of the natural sciences.
2- To conceive the human / non human relationships. The second part presents examples of how animals might be and have been introduced in social sciences
3- Case studies. The last part of the course is devoted to the presentation of specific studies of human-animal interaction and communication systems. Methodological questions arise here. |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| Below the acquisition of new knowledge, the course aims at :
- a better knowledge of the natural sciences's ways of thinking and explaining, in order to be able in the future to collaborate with natural scientists
- be able to identify the epistemological implicit choices and ideological commitment that structure scientific theories (by the practice of reflexivity);
- to question the commonsense human/animal frontier
- to get some flexibility and relativism while learning about other concepts of nature and animals. |
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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| None |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| The course is organized as a 2h per week seminar. It will take place at the first term. Students' active participation is expected. Relevant scientific papers will be provided and should be read before each course. |
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Recommended or required readings :
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| A reading list is given to the students. Each course is based on one to five papers. An additional list of more than 50 papers or books is given. It allows the students to deeper their understanding of many differents points discussed during the seminar. |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| Students must discuss a subject they can choose themselves on the basis of the critical reading of five scientific papers or one book beloging to the bibliography that is given by the teacher. They write their report and then present personnally it to the teacher. |
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Work placement(s) :
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| The course has no exercices but can be followed by the course Antrhopologie de l'animal, partim 2 which is a supervised ethnographic exercice. |
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Organizational remarks :
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Contacts :
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Véronique SERVAIS, chargée de cours
Institut des Sciences Humaines et Sociales
Bd du Rectorat, Bât B31
Sart Tilman
4000 Liège
+ 32 4 366 32 08
E-mail v.servais@ulg.ac.be
Secrétariat
Alexia Mainjot
Tél. 04 3662756 |
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