New Anthropology

Saturday, September 03, 2005

Sites for New Direction

Two ways to express what I call New Anthropology.

1. The new theoretical concern should be highlighted: A Cognitive Turn!

Dan Sperber's website
http://www.dan.sperber.com/

Maurice Bloch's public lecture at LSE
Title: Where did anthropology go? Or The Need for "Human Nature"
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/LSEPublicLecturesAndEvents/pdf/20050224-Bloch-Anthropology.pdf

2. The new learning methods should be applied: Timeless and remote learning on the net!!

Cambridge D-Space for Social Anthropology
https://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/1470

The Ancestors of anthropologists Website
http://www.alanmacfarlane.com/ancestors/audiovisual.html



Week 1: Religion, Belief and Cognition (1) http://cltwebs.lse.ac.uk/coursemedia/lectures/anthropology/an301_01/an301_01_files/Default.htm
Week 2: Religion, Belief and Cognition (2) http://cltwebs.lse.ac.uk/coursemedia/lectures/anthropology/an301_02/lecture%202_files/Default.htm
Week 3: Witchcraft and Theory of Mind http://cltwebs.lse.ac.uk/coursemedia/lectures/anthropology/an301_03/lecture%203_files/Default.htm
Week 4: What is Ritual? http://cltwebs.lse.ac.uk/coursemedia/lectures/anthropology/an301_04/lecture%204_files/Default.htm
Week 5: Sacrifice, Asceticism and Deference http://cltwebs.lse.ac.uk/coursemedia/lectures/anthropology/an301_05/lecture%205_files/Default.htm
Week 6: Religion, Classification and Cosmology. http://cltwebs.lse.ac.uk/coursemedia/lectures/anthropology/an301_06/lecture%206_files/Default.htm
Week 7: Religion, Cosmology and Science http://cltwebs.lse.ac.uk/coursemedia/lectures/anthropology/an301_07/lecture%207_files/Default.htm
Week 8: Myth http://cltwebs.lse.ac.uk/coursemedia/lectures/anthropology/an301_08/lecture%208_files/Default.htm
Week 9: Religion and the State http://cltwebs.lse.ac.uk/coursemedia/lectures/anthropology/an301_09/AN301_09_files/Default.htm
Week 10: The Big and Little Tradition http://cltwebs.lse.ac.uk/coursemedia/lectures/anthropology/an301_10/an301_10_files/Default.htm

Friday, September 02, 2005

Toward a New Anthropology

We have so-called traditional anthropology for such a terrific long time.

It is the time to reflect what has misled us into the perils.