Theories & Debates: Culture vs. Ontology

4.0 credits

A survey of anthropological and philosophical debates over how to explain the apparently irrational beliefs of other people in terms of their different cultural perceptions of the same natural world, or in terms of their different experiences of ontologically different worlds. Readings include works by Durkheim, Evans-Pritchard, Levi-Strauss, Latour, Descola, Ingold, Willerslev, and Kohn.