Workshop, part 2

Content analysis of Dan Serber's book.

Aditional reading:

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

Workshop, part 1

Content analysis of Dan Serber's book.

Aditional reading:

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."

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:

Deep learning

Deep moving

Society of mind
Connectivism vs Modularity

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".