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"Culture, Mind &Cognition"

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Course ID:	WH-KON-CULTURE
Erasmus code / ISCED:	(unknown) / (unknown)
Course title:	"Culture, Mind &Cognition"
Name in Polish:	"Culture, Mind &Cognition"
Organizational unit:	Faculty of Humanities
Course groups:	Courses at UKSW
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	6.00 Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load.
Language:	English
Subject level:	elementary
Learning outcome code/codes:	enter learning outcome code/codes
Short description:	(in Polish) The course offers brief overview of theories focused on mental models of culture defined as mind, knowledge and consciousness. Our objective is to discover what is a “cultural cognitive structure”, “cultural conceptual system” and “cultural cognitive representation”. We’ll start with cognitive anthropology of Goodenough , D’Andrade, claims of Lacoff and Johnson, and we’ll come to contemporary theory of Eric Gans Generative Anthropology in reference to... neuroscience.
Full description:	(in Polish) 1. Areas and synonyms of cognitive anthropology: "ethnoscience", "ethnosemantics", "componential analysis", "lexical semantic analysis", "ethnographic semantics" or "new ethnography". 2. Cognitive contexts of definitions of culture. 3. The emergence of cognitive anthropology. 4. Cognitive anthropology in diachronic perspective-chosen hypothesis 5. Pre-existing cultural schemas and cultural task solutions. 6. Words or being- what contains "pointers" to schemas ? 7. Culture as cognition, culture as consciousness. 8. Language and culture in analogical reference- structures, codes, concepts. 9. Language and culture as systems of cognitive representation. Idiolect and "pro prospect". 10. Culture as sets of standards and body of knowledge. Emic nad ethic. 11. Construction of cognitive mental models of the relevant cultures. 12. Cultural mental actions in narrative transfers. 13. Phenomenal and ideational definition of culture. 14. Prototypes, schemas and networks of folk models in reasoning- how do people use and organize ordinary knowledge. 15. Metaphorical nature of of conceptual systems.
Bibliography:	(in Polish) B.G. Blount, A History of Cognitive Anthropology [in]: A Companion to Cognitive Anthropology, Ed. by David B. Kronenfeld, Giovanni Bernardo.., Willey-Blackwell, Oxford 2011, pp. 11-24 Naomi Quinn, The History of the Cultural Models School Reconsidered: A Paradigm Shift in Cognitive Anthropology [in]: A Companion to Cognitive Anthropology, Ed. by David B. Kronenfeld, Giovanni Bernardo.., Willey-Blackwell, Oxford 2011 , pp. 30-47 Jurg Wassmann, Christian Kluge, and Dominik Albrecht, The Cognitive Context of Cognitive Anthropology [in]: A Companion to Cognitive Anthropology, Ed. by David B. Kronenfeld, Giovanni Bernardo.., Willey-Blackwell, Oxford 2011, p. 47-60 James Boster, Data, Method, and Interpretation in Cognitive Anthropology,[in]: A Companion to Cognitive Anthropology, Ed. by David B. Kronenfeld, Giovanni Bernardo.., Willey-Blackwell, Oxford 2011, 131-153 Ward Goodenough, “Cultural Anthropology and Linguistics” : [in] Report of the Seventh Annual Roundtable Meeting on Linguistics and Language Study, Ed. by Paul L. Garvin, Washington , DC, Georgetown University, 1957 Ward H. Goodenough, Culture, Language, and Society, University of Pennsylvania The Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company, Inc. Menlo Park, California Reading, Massachusetts London..., Edition:2nd, 1981 D'Andrade, Roy G. (1995) The Development of Cognitive Anthropology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK D'Andrade, Roy G. (2001). "A cognitivist's view of the units debate in cultural anthropology." Cross-Cultural Research, 35(2), 242 - 257. George I.akoff and Mark Johnson, (1980) Metaphors we live by, University of Chicago Press, Chicago Magdalena Złocka-Dąbrowska, Cratos as Cognition, Gans and Dumezil in Dialog on Language and Violence, “Anthropoetics: The Journal of Generative Anthropology” XXII, no.1, Fall 2016, www.anthropoetics. ucla.edu. (Open Access Journal -University of California in Los Angeles) http://anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap2201/2201mzd/

Classes in period "Winter semester 2022/23" (past)

Time span:	2022-10-01 - 2023-01-31	Selected timetable range: weekly course term Navigate to timetable MO TU W KON TH FR
Type of class:	Conversatorium, 30 hours more information
Coordinators:	Joanna Zajkowska, Magdalena Złocka-Dąbrowska
Group instructors:	Magdalena Złocka-Dąbrowska
Students list:	(inaccessible to you)
Examination:	Course - graded credit Conversatorium - graded credit
(in Polish) E-Learning:	(in Polish) E-Learning (pełny kurs)
Type of subject:	obligatory
(in Polish) Grupa przedmiotów ogólnouczenianych:	(in Polish) nie dotyczy

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