Examination procedure
<p>Seminar presentation</p><p><br></p>
Prerequisites
No prerequisites are required.
Syllabus
Beyond nature and culture?
The course aims to present and discuss some authors of the contemporary debate (Philippe Descola, Bruno Latour, Tim Ingold, Gísli Pálsson) who question, from different disciplinary perspectives, the Nature/Culture divide. The aim is to provide participants with the theoretical tools to investigate, in an interdisciplinary way, the theoretical consequences of a different recomposition of the traditional dualism.
Bibliographical references
Charbonnier P., La fin d’un grand partage. Nature et societé de Durkheim à Descola, CNRS Editions 2015
Descola P. (a cura di), Les natures en question, Odile Jacob 2018
Descola P., L’écologie des autres. L’anthopologie et la question de la nature, Editions Quae 2011
Dwyer P.D., The invention of Nature, in R. Ellen, F. Katsuyoshi (a cura di), Redefining nature, Berg 1996
Ingold T., Palsson G. (a cura di), Biosocial becomings. Integrating social and biological anthropology, Cambridge University Press 2013
Latour B., Non siamo mai stati moderni, Elèuthera 2009
Palsson G., Nature, Culture, and Society. Anthropological Perspectives on Life, Cambridge University Press 2015