Learning outcomes

Knowledge and capacity to understand
At the end of the course, the student should:
- have a basic knowledge of the fundamental epistemological and hermeneutic principles of anthropological ethnography;
- have a basic knowledge of the main cosmological models as reconstructed by ethnographic surveys;
- have a basic knowledge of the stages in the historical development of naturalistic cosmology.

Knowledge and capacity to apply understanding
At the end of the course, the student should be able to:
• consciously apply analogical reasoning in the cultural field;
- recognize the epistemological bases of an ethnographic text;
- recognize the fundamental features of the main forms of cosmology;
- cosmologically position a philosophical theory.

Independent judgment
At the end of the course, the students will have acquired:
• the capacity to critically analyze an anthropological text in relation to its ethnological bases;
• the capacity to anthropologically analyze a vision of the world (or cosmology)
• the capacity to critically analyze the cosmological foundations of a philosophical theory.

Communication skills
At the end of the course, students should be able to:
• consciously use specific terms relating to anthropological ethnography themes;
• speak precisely about the differences and similarities between the various ethnographic theories;
• speak precisely about the cosmological problems involved in the nature-culture relationship.

Capacity to learn
At the end of the course, the students should be able to:
• analyze the quality of an ethnographic research;
• identify and analyze culturally-oriented cosmological constructions.

Program

- Ethnography between epistemology and hermeneutics;
- The problem of experiments in the history of anthropology;
- Ethnography as an experiment of experience;
- The cognitive bases of analogy and analogies in anthropology;
- "Perduction": resonance, empathy and serendipity in ethnography;
- The historical construction of the concept of "nature";
- The historical construction of naturalism;
- The new concept of animism;
- The new concept of totemism;
- Analogism.


Requirements
- basic knowledge of cultural anthropology contents;
- in-depth knowledge of the current principles of western philosophy.

Teaching methods
Lectures with inter-active exchanges with the students.

Examination Methods

Learning levels will be assessed by an oral test. Students must be able to demonstrate:
- to have understood the relevant underlying elements of epistemology and ethnographic hermeneutics;
- to have understood the relevant elements concerning the study of cosmologies as collections with ethnographic methods;
- to be able to express their own reasoning in a precise manner, identifying and selecting the essential elements;
- to be able to critically analyze the relationship between philosophical thought and the cosmological construction on which it is based.
A maximum score of up to 15/30 will be awarded for each of the books to be studied.
Examination methods will be the same for both attending and non-attending students.