Sumários
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16 Março 2022, 16:00 • Rita Sousa
A short story of anthropologists' belief in "belief".
"Folk psychology", conceptualisation and knowledge.
R. Needham's Belief, Knowledge and Experience: issues on religion and cognition, and his influence on Dan Sperber's Le savoir des anthropologues. (see B. Saler's review in LAmerican anthropologist).
Symbolism, belief and rationalism in D. Sperber's text in La fonction symbolique.
To know and to believe, in Jean Pouillon's "Remarques le verbe croire".
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10 Março 2022, 16:00 • Rita Sousa
Workshop, part 1
Content analysis of Dan Serber's book.
E.E: Evans Pritchard, The Nuer
D. Sperber, Le savoir des anthropologues
J. Bureau, Le verdict du Serpent. Mythes, contes et recits des Gamo d'Éthiopie
J. Abink, Review of Le verdict du Serpent. Mythes, contes et recits des Gamo d'Éthiopie
Summary of the Seminar on "Croyances apparament irrationelles"
(chapter 2 of
Le savoir des anthropologues, Dan Sperber)
General synopsis
Division of the text into parts - partial description of arguments:
- introduction
- Critique of intellectualism
- Critique of symbolism
- Critique of Relativism
- Rationalist thesis
- Conclusion
Analysis of the psychological argument proposed by author
Analysis of the construction of the argument - compared with the conclusions of Sec. 1
Analysis of the argument by illustration: dialogue of field notebook and "forgetting"
Question: Interpretation vs. explanation: "Attention! Dragon dangereux."
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9 Março 2022, 16:00 • Rita Sousa
Discussion of Dan Sperber's critical review of C. Lévi-Strauss's model, in Du symbolisme en général
D. Sperber vs T. Ingold and the Psychology / Ethnography debate in the Debated Mind
Maurice Bloch's connectivist stand in How we think they think
On AI and connectionism:
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24 Fevereiro 2022, 16:00 • Rita Sousa
Meaning, culture, categorisation.
Concepts and symbols. The ethnocentric wrongs of view both dualistic and substantivistic.
Positive Reason: a cultural category? The inescapability of Paradox and Reversibility. The example of mathematical discourse: Gödel's indefinity theorem, and a reading of L. Carrol and D. Hofstadter: J. C. Gomes da Silva.
A critical perspective on semiology and its influence in anthropology.
The issue of meaning and absurdity in G. Deleuze
Bibliography:
P. Blundel-Jones, Meaning and the use of meaning
G. Deleuze, La logique du sens
L. Carrol, Through the looking-glass
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23 Fevereiro 2022, 16:00 • Rita Sousa
The indefinition problem in what's proper to language and proper to thought: E. Benveniste's reading of the Categories, by Aristote.
Detailed reading of the text.
Sylvia Scribner's critical review of sylogism, in Ways of Thinking, Ways of Speaking
A way forward from the linguistic-based, static and taxonomic models in ethnographic observation and in anthropological writing: Edmund Leach, Maurice Bloch, J.C. Gomes da Silva.
Bibliography:
E. Benveniste, Categories de la langue, categories de la pensée
Maurice Bloch, How we think they think
Edmund Leach, Political systems of Highland Burma
Edmund Leach, Rethinking Anthropology
J. C. Gomes da Silva, O Discurso contra si próprio
J. Lave. Savagery of domesticated thought
West, Science for the West, Myth for the rest?