[Anthropgrad] FW: [Asia_news] South Asia Seminars Series

[Robert Attenborough]

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SOUTH ASIA SEMINAR SERIES
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, ANU College of Asia and
the
Pacific

30 April 2008, Wednesday, 2.00-3.30pm, Seminar Room A, Coombs Bldg, ANU

Charles W. Nuckolls, Professor of Psychological Anthropology, Brigham
Young
University (USA)

Paradox and Causal Thinking in a South Indian Fishing Village

Divinatory practices in South India reveal the existence of intractable
dilemmas in the logic of causal explanation.  Such dilemmas have their
origin in the dynamics of kinship.  However, they bear a resemblance to
the
"antinomies" said by Kant to inspire the dialectics of pure reason.
Here I
explore the relevance of Kant to the understanding of divination, and to
the
social dialectics that give rise to the paradoxes of causal reasoning in
a
Telugu fishing village.


Dr Barbara Nelson
Research Assistant to the Director
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
The Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200 Australia
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