Bi4224 Environmental anthropology

Přírodovědecká fakulta
jaro 2022
Rozsah
1/0/0. 2 kr. Ukončení: zk.
Vyučující
Paride Bollettin, MSc., Ph.D. (přednášející)
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Paride Bollettin, MSc., Ph.D.
Ústav antropologie – Biologická sekce – Přírodovědecká fakulta
Kontaktní osoba: Paride Bollettin, MSc., Ph.D.
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Ústav antropologie – Biologická sekce – Přírodovědecká fakulta
Rozvrh
Pá 19:00–20:30 online
Předpoklady
The course does not require any prerequisite.
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je nabízen i studentům mimo mateřské obory.
Mateřské obory/plány
Cíle předmětu
The course aims at making students able to observe, study, and discuss the complex interactions intermingling humans and their biosocial environments.
Výstupy z učení
Trough the course, students will acquire basic knowledge on:
1) the diverse ways of situate human-environment relations along the history of anthropological debates;
2) alternative, culturally grounded, forms of experiencing the environment in diverse societies;
3) current debates on the complexity of human-environment interactions with an eye on the ecological crisis.
Osnova
  • 1. Nature-Culture
    Readings:
    Descola, Philippe. 2009. The two natures of Lévi-Strauss. In B. Wiseman (Ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Lévi-Strauss, 103-117. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
    Ingold, Tim. 2013. Dreaming of dragons: on the imagination of real life. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 19: 734-752.

    Additional reading:
    Ortner, Sherry B. 1974. Is female to male as nature is to culture? In M.Z. Rosaldo and L. Lamphere (Eds.). Woman, culture, and society, 68-87. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

    2. Humans and the others in intermingled worlds
    Readings:
    Candea, Matei. 2010. “I fell in love with Carlos the meerkat: Engagement and detachement in human-animal relations. American Ethnologist 37(2): 241-258.
    Tsing, Anna L. 2018. Nine provocations for the study of domestication. In A.H. Swanson, M.E. Lien and G.B. Ween (Eds.). Domestication gone wild, 231-251. Durham: Duke University Press.

    Additional reading:
    Haraway, Donna. 2006. Encounters with Companion Species: Entangling Dogs, Baboons, Philosophers, and Biologists. Configurations 14(1/2): 97-114.

    3. Ethnography beyond the “human”
    Readings:
    Gibson, Diana. 2018. Towards plant-centred methodologies in anthropology. Anthropology Southern Africa 41(2): 92–103.
    Kirksey, S. Eben, and Stefan Helmreich. 2010. The emergence of multispecies ethnography. Cultural Anthropology 25(4): 545–576.

    Additional reading:
    Hartigan Jr, John. 2017. ‘How to Interview a Plant: Ethnography of Life Forms’. In Care of the Species: Races of Corn and the Science of Plant Biodiversity, 253–81. Minneapolis [et al.]: University of Minnesota Press.

    4. “Eat”, “think”, and “live” the environment
    Readings:
    Calkins, Sandra. 2019. ‘Bananas, Humanitarian Biotech, and Human-Plant Histories in Uganda’. Medicine Anthropology Theory 6 (3): 29–53.
    Freidberg, Susanne. 2003. ‘French Beans for the Masses: A Modern Historical Geography of Food in Burkina Faso’. Journal of Historical Geography 29 (3): 445–63.

    Additional reading:
    Harris, Marvin et al. 1966. The Cultural Ecology of India’s Sacred Cattle. Current Anthropology 7(1): 51-66.

    5. Cultural views of the environment
    Readings:
    Krenak, Ailton and Duarte, Andreia. 2021. Silence of the World: Scenic Experiment Script. TDR 65(4): 67-76.
    Prihandoko. Sanjatmiko. 2021. Multispecies ethnography: reciprocal interaction between residents and the environment in Segara Anakan, Indonesia. South East Asia Research 29(3): 384-400.
    Vianello, Rita. 2021. Venetian Lagoon Mussel farming Between Tradition and Innovation. An Example of Changes in Perception and Multispecies Relation”. Lagoonscapes. The Venice Journal of Environmental Humanities 1(2): 315-336.

    Additional reading:
    Meneley, Anne. 2021. ‘Eating Wild: Hosting the Food Heritage of Palestine’. PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 44 (2): 207–222.

    6. Political environments
    Readings:
    Howard, Penny McCall. 2018. ‘The Anthropology of Human-Environment Relations: Materialism with and without Marxism’. Focaal 2018 (82): 64–79.
    Reis-Castro, Luisa. 2021. Becoming Without: Making Transgenic Mosquitoes and Disease Control in Brazil. Environmental Humanities 13(2): 323-347.

    Additional reading:
    Brown, Kate. 2019. Learning to Read the Great Chernobyl Acceleration. Current Anthropology 60(20): 198-208.
    Calkins, Sandra. 2021. ‘Toxic Remains: Infrastructural Failure in a Ugandan Molecular Biology Lab’. Social Studies of Science, April, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1177/03063127211011531.
Výukové metody
The classes will be held online (platform will be indicated), with introducing presentations and collective discussions.
Metody hodnocení
Students will be asked to produce a brief paper (max 10 pages) describing an ethnographic case of their own choice to be discussed using the course bibliographic materials.
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
Informace učitele
Paride Bollettin: https://www.muni.cz/en/people/247100-paride-bollettin
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