2026/2027
Антропология веры и знания
Статус:
Майнор
Кто читает:
Департамент истории
Где читается:
Санкт-Петербургская школа гуманитарных наук и искусств
Охват аудитории:
для всех кампусов НИУ ВШЭ
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
5
Контактные часы:
76
Course Syllabus
Abstract
Anthropology of belief and knowledge seek an understanding of an understanding: it aims at grasping what people across cultures admit to be true. How various systems of knowledge and belief distinguish the rational and the irrational? What is sense and senselessness? How are knowledge, belief, intuition and revelation distinguished in different social and cultural contexts? How are epistemologies related to aesthetics, ethics, moral order and everyday knowledge practices, and how are they embedded in forms of society that that articulate and constitute? We consider these questions by drawing on detailed ethnographies of science and religion. Cases that we explore range from studies of witchcraft and shamanism to laboratory and computer science, from conspiracy theories to knowledge about climate change and different religions.
Learning Objectives
- be able not only read key ethnographies, but also make an individual research, based on the unique ethnographic experience, applying the skills learnt through the course.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- able to formulate statements about scientific notions of inequality and support them with arguments and examples from the readings discussed at tutorials
- reflects on difference between magic, sciece and religioin
- reflects on the concept of language games
Course Contents
- Anthropology since the 1980s.
- Language games.
- Natural resources and technologies: commons and struggles of communities
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Bielo, J. S. (2016). A companion to the anthropology of religion. Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale, 24(1), 103–106. https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12247
- Ingold, T. (2018). Anthropology : Why It Matters. Medford: Polity. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1801558
- Nonini, D. M. (2014). A Companion to Urban Anthropology (Vol. First edition). Chichester, West Sussex, UK: Wiley-Blackwell. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=733788
- Spickard, J. V. (2017). Alternative Sociologies of Religion : Through Non-Western Eyes. New York: NYU Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1367277
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- James S Bielo. (2015). Anthropology of Religion: The Basics. Routledge.