University of Kent at Canterbury Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology

LENT TERM DEPARTMENTAL SEMINAR SERIES

14.01.1997 - 25.03.1997

COGNITION AND REPRESENTATION OF LIVING KINDS: TOWARDS A NEW ECOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Convenor: Laura Rival

14 January PHILIPPE DESCOLA
(Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Sociale and EHESS, Paris)
Grateful Preys. The Symbolism of Animals in Amazonian Hunting

21 January TIM INGOLD
(Dpt of Anthropology, University of Manchester)
Environmental Perception and Cognitive Categories

28 January JOHN CLARK
(School of History, Rutherford College)
Social Insects and the Science of Society

4 February CAROLINE HUMPHREY
(Dpt of Anthropology, University of Cambridge)
Perceptions of Mountains and Mountain Cults of the Buriats

11 February PAUL HARRIS
(Dpt of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)
Children's Understandings of Social Exchange

18 February PASCAL BOYER
(CNRS/MRASH University of Lyon, France)
Natural Constraints on religious Categories: Anthropological and Experimental Study of Cultural Representations

25 Februrary GISLI PALSSON
(University of Iceland)
The "Charm and Terror" of Ecology: Human Ecology in the Age of Post-Modernity

4 March CLAUDINE FRIEDBERG
(Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris)
Diversity, Order and the Unity of Life in Folk Knowledges

11 March BRENT BERLIN
(University of Georgia, Athens, USA)
One Mayan Indian's View of the Plant World: How a Folk System of Botanical Classification Can Be Both Comprehensive and Natural

18 March SCOTT ATRAN
(CREA, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris)
Folk Biology and the Anthropology of Science: Cognitive Universals and Cultural Particulars

25 March DAVID AND ANN PREMACK
(Laboratoire de Psychobiologie du Développement, CNRS, Paris)
Title to be announced

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