24.01.2020 06.02.20, AnthroLab-Vortrag: Anthropology of life - When Science and Technology Studies meet Amerindian Ethnology

Vortrag im Rahmen des AnthroLabs

Recent scientific and technological advances have led to profound changes to humans’ outlook on life and to their relationships to the living. Thus the definition of life becomes a crucial issue for the social sciences, not only the natural sciences. Research done in the field of Science and Technology Studies has shown that cultural contexts play an important role in how biology is practiced and/or in how knowledge from it is used. But until now there has been an insufficient effort to articulate this field with the growing number of ethnological works which investigate understandings of life found in traditional societies. In order to establish a dialogue between disciplines that tend to follow their own separate paths, this presentation proposes showing how the ethnology of Amerindian societies (Mesoamerica, Andes, Amazonia) can contribute to the definition of life.

Referierende: Prof. Dr. Perig Pitrou, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Collège de France Paris

Wann: 06. Februar 2020, 18:15  Uhr

Wo: Hör-/Lehrsaal 109 (+1/1090) in der Deutschhausstrasse 3 

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