Anthropology of Symbolic systems : Religion, Nature and Virtual Worlds

lantr2020  2019-2020  Louvain-la-Neuve

Anthropology of Symbolic systems : Religion, Nature and Virtual Worlds
Note from June 29, 2020
Although we do not yet know how long the social distancing related to the Covid-19 pandemic will last, and regardless of the changes that had to be made in the evaluation of the June 2020 session in relation to what is provided for in this learning unit description, new learnig unit evaluation methods may still be adopted by the teachers; details of these methods have been - or will be - communicated to the students by the teachers, as soon as possible.
4 credits
20.0 h
Q1
Teacher(s)
Servais Olivier;
Language
French
Main themes
Through lectures and reading exercise the course will encounter authors such as : Douglas, Hallowell, Turner, Gauchet, Lévi-strauss, De Certeau, Leenhardt, Van der Leeuw, Dumezil, Malinowski, Leach, Goody, Otto, Van Gennep, Descola, Viveiros de Castro, Bastide, Girard, Frazer. Following subject and concepts such as : Myth, mythology, ideology, ritual, the symbolic, the belief, the conversion, the religion, the religious, the sacred, the secularization, totemism, animism, naturalism, the magic, the sorcery, shamanism, phenomenological approaches, structuralism and symbolic functionalism.
Aims

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

1. Understand the main trends and great authors of symbolic systems anthropology. 
 
2. Develop a personal point of view about these trends.
 

The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.
Content
The course Methodology : 1. Lecture of introduction (first lesson) 2. Previous article readings 3. Collective analysis and feedback about reading exercise 4. Final lecture: conclusion and synthesis.
Teaching methods
Active pedagogy with strong student involvement. Each course uses a different didactic or pedagogical method.
Evaluation methods
Students are evaluated on the basis of their participation and a final collective and individual work.
Other information
Pre-requisite : A first course in anthropology. Evaluation : Students' work will be appraised according to the jury system (cf. Master in Anthropology) Materials course : Texts portfolio will be distributed.
Faculty or entity
PSAD


Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)

Title of the programme
Sigle
Credits
Prerequisites
Aims
Master [120] in History of Art and Archaeology : General

Master [120] in Population and Development Studies

Master [120] in Anthropology

Certificat universitaire en sciences des religions

Master [120] in Ethics

Master [120] in Sciences of Religions

Master [120] in Philosophy

Master [60] in Philosophy

Master [60] in Sociology and Anthropology