Cognitive and medical anthropology

Pre-requisites: Without preconditions.

Course objectives: Enabling students to master the theoretical and methodological apparatus of scientific information and scientific explanations relevant to the culture understood as an idea-based cognitive system, as well as the study of blood and sexually transmitted diseases and comprehension of the phenomena given in the context of contemporary society and culture.

Course description: Theoretical lessons: 1. Cultural cognition 2. Social epidemiology

Learning Outcomes: Setting the basis for the conceptual and practical elaboration of the possible application of knowledge in terms of developing cultural expertise in the social and cultural engagement of understanding other cultures.

Literature/Reading:

• Rita Astuti (2002), Are We All Natural Dualists? A Cognitive Developmental Approach, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Vol. 7 No. 3, 429-447
• Frederik Barth (2002), An Anthropology of Knowledge, Current Anthropology Vol. 43 No. 1, 1-18
• Ronald Barrett, Christopher W. Kuzawa, Thomas McDade, and George J. Armelagos (1998), Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases: The Third Epidemiologic Transition, Annual Review of Anthropoogy 27,
• Roy G. D’Andrade (1995), The Development of Cognitive Anthropology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1-252
• Paul Farmer (1996), Social Inequalities and Emerging Infectious Diseases, Emerging Infectious Diseases Vol. 2, No. 4, 259-269
• Linda Garro (1988), Explaining High Blood Pressure: Variation in Knowledge About Illness, American Ethnologist 15: 98-119
• Tim Rhodes (2002), The “Risk Environment”: A Framework for Understanding and Reducing Drug-Related Harm. International Journal of Drug Policy 13, 85–94
• Tim Rhodes, Bojan Žikić, Ana Prodanović, Elena Kuneski, Sarah Bernays (2008), Hygiene and uncertainty in qualitative accounts of hepatitis C transmission among drug injectors in Serbia,
• Bojan Žikić (2006.a), Antropološka analiza HIV/HCV-vulnerabilnosti i rizičnog ponašanja u Beogradu, Svakodnevna kultura u postsocijalističkom periodu u Srbiji i Bugarskoj, Zbornik radova Etnografskog i
• Bojan Žikić (2006.b), Antropologija AIDS-a. Rizično ponašanje intravenskih korisnika droge, Filozofski fakultet i Srpski genealoški centar, Etnološka biblioteka knj.19, Beograd, 73-240
• Bojan Žikić (2008.a), Rizik i nasilje. Antropološko proučavanje seksualnog rada u Beogradu, Srpski genealoški centar i Odeljenje za etnologiju i antropologiju Filozofskog fakulteta u Beogradu, Etnološka b
• Bojan Žikić (2008.b), Kako složiti babe, žabe i električne gitare: uvod u kognitivnu antropologiju, Antropologija 6, 114-136