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
The seminar meets on Tuesdays at 4:30 pm in Eliot Upper Senior Common Room
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
Dr Laura Rival, Eliot College,
University of Kent,
Canterbury,
Kent
CT2 7NS,
UK.
Email
L.M.Rival@ukc.ac.uk
Email
Laura Rival
