The Anthropology of Ontology 3102-FAON
This course analyzes the so-called “ontological turn” in anthropology and related themes under the critique of the conceptual divide between nature and culture. It focuses on the theoretical influences and origins of the anthropology of ontology, major themes and discussions, and the methodological implications of this approach. The course also explores the major exponents of this theoretical movement, their similarities and differences. The course familiarizes students with the works of a variety of anthropologists closely related to this trend in anthropology, such as Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Martin Holbraad, Morten Pedersen, Elizabeth Povinelli, Marilyn Strathern, Eduardo Kohn, Bruno Latour, Michael Scott, Peter Skafish, Marisol de la Cadena, and Roy Wagner.
Rodzaj przedmiotu
Tryb prowadzenia
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Efekty kształcenia
At the end of the course, students will identify the main approaches to the ontological turn in anthropology. They will learn how to address the problem of ontological multiplicity, and the theoretical and methodological implications of this anthropological trend, as well as its main criticisms and shortcomings.
Kryteria oceniania
A final exam about one of the course topics, which is worth 90%. Participation in class and exposition of a relevant theme: 10%. Attendance is mandatory.
Literatura
Candea. Matei. 2019. Comparison in Anthropology: The Impossible Method. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Danowski Déborah, and Viveiros de Castro, Eduardo. 2017. The Ends of the World. Cambridge: Polity Press.
De la Cadena, Marisol. 2015. Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice Across Andean Worlds. Durham and London: Duke University Press.
Descola, Philippe. 2013a. The Ecology of Others. Translated by Geneviève Godbout and
Benjamin P. Luley. Chicago: Prockly Paradigm Press.
Descola, Philippe. 2013b. Beyond Nature and Culture. Chicago: The Univesity of Chicago Press.
Holbraad, Martin, and Pedersen, Morten Axel. 2017. The Ontological Turn: An Anthropological Exposition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Khon, Eduardo. 2013. How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Latour, Bruno. 1993. We Have Never Been Modern. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
Laidlaw, James, and Heywood Paolo. 2013. “One More Turn and you Are There.”, in Anthropology of this Century 7, May Issue. http://aotcpress.com/articles/turn/
Povinelli, Elizabeth. 2021. Between Gaia and Ground: Four Axioms of Existence and the Ancestral Catastrophe of Late Liberalism. Durham and London: Duke University Press.
Ramon, Alcida. 2012. “The Politics of Perspectivism”, in Annual Review of Anthropology 41: 481-494.
Sahlins, Marshall. 2022. The New Science of the Enchanted Universe: An Anthropology of Most of Humanity. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press.
Scott, Michael. 2013. “What I´m Reading: The Anthropology of Ontology (Religious Science?), JRAI, (N.S.) 19, 859-872.
Skafish, Peter. 2023. Rough Metaphysics: The Speculative Thought and Mediumship of Jane Roberts. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press
Strathern, Marilyn. 2020. Relation: An Anthropological Account. Durham and London: Duke University Press.
Viveiros de Castro, Eduardo. 2014. Cannibal Metaphysics: For a Post-Structural Anthropology. Minneapolis: Univocal.
Viveiros de Castro, Eduardo. 2015. The Relative Native: Essays on Indigenous Conceptual Worlds. Chicago: HAU Books and The University of Chicago Press.
Wagner, Roy. 1981. The Invention of Culture. Revised and expanded revision. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Wagner, Roy. 2019. The Logic of Invention. Chicago: HAU Books and The University of Chicago Press.
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