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 ====== ANTH 4102: The anthropology of mind and experience ====== ====== ANTH 4102: The anthropology of mind and experience ======
  
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 This honours seminar is a survey of different developments within a theory of culture as a system of thought, and considers the influence on and relevance for questions of the contemporary world. The purpose of anthropology is and always has been to expand what people understand to be the nature of humanity. It does this most visibly in its documentation of the diverse ways of life that different communities have created. Yet perhaps more importantly, anthropology has also created a theoretical language with which we can contest and critique the power of normative conceptions of the human and the nature of human society. Furthermore, by claiming a position from which to see all of humanity, anthropology is best placed to see the forms of oppression engendered when a single model of the human, its relationships, and its social life is imposed. In many respects, we are all using anthropology’s vocabulary to talk about the contemporary world, to understand its order, and to formulate possible future, genuinely cosmopolitan orders. This honours seminar is a survey of different developments within a theory of culture as a system of thought, and considers the influence on and relevance for questions of the contemporary world. The purpose of anthropology is and always has been to expand what people understand to be the nature of humanity. It does this most visibly in its documentation of the diverse ways of life that different communities have created. Yet perhaps more importantly, anthropology has also created a theoretical language with which we can contest and critique the power of normative conceptions of the human and the nature of human society. Furthermore, by claiming a position from which to see all of humanity, anthropology is best placed to see the forms of oppression engendered when a single model of the human, its relationships, and its social life is imposed. In many respects, we are all using anthropology’s vocabulary to talk about the contemporary world, to understand its order, and to formulate possible future, genuinely cosmopolitan orders.
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