ANT 362 Cognition, Culture, and Cultivation
This course will focus on the literatures in anthropology that concern how humans learn about their natural environments in both a cognitive-categorical manner and in a contextual, meaningful manner. Readings will pull from the subdisciplines of ethnobiology, political ecology, and globalization studies. As part of the course, students will participate with local gardeners (or people in other agricultural or landscape-based occupations) and will produce reflections on their process of acquiring knowledge about natural kinds in a contextual manner as a result of interacting with plants in a social setting.