Anthropology of Experience
Course code
HIA6332.HT
old course code
Course title in Estonian
Kogemusantropoloogia
Course title in English
Anthropology of Experience
ECTS credits
6.0
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Examination
lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester
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lecturer of 2024/2025 Spring semester
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Course aims
This course will examine ‘the perceptual’ as a social, political, and cultural phenomenon, which is continually undergoing transformations throughout history. The course will consider how perception is experienced, shapes relations between persons, and structures the way we encounter and perceive the world.
Brief description of the course
We will study the sensorium (understood as the entire perceptual apparatus) as a continuously shifting social and historical construct that is variable both within and across cultural groups and not simply a matter of cognitive and neurological mechanisms. The course will also review the assumptions that propose that the senses are limited to the Aristotelian categories of sight, smell, touch, taste, and hearing. Instead the course materials will examine perception as a corporeal experience.
Learning outcomes in the course
Upon completing the course the student:
- has developed an understanding of how anthropologists have approached perception;
- is able to relate these approaches to other fields of research;
- has developed basic skills in critical analysis of transdisciplinary texts.
- has developed an understanding of how anthropologists have approached perception;
- is able to relate these approaches to other fields of research;
- has developed basic skills in critical analysis of transdisciplinary texts.
Teacher
Carlo Cubero Irizarry
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