Spotkanie dwóch światów. O różnicach kulturowych w percepcji rzeczywistości

Sara Szweda

doi:10.26881/etno.2022.8.11

Authors

Sara Szweda University of Gdansk https://orcid.org/0009-0008-1051-3084

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26881/etno.2022.8.11

Keywords:

cognitive anthropology, theory of reasoning, Peruvian Amazon, auditory perception, anthropology of the senses

Abstract

In this essay, I present and analyze differences in the perception of the world by two people who are representatives of two different cultures and societies. The first one is the anthro- pologist Fernando Santos-Granero and the second is a man from the Amazonian Yanesha group named Matar. Focusing on the description of a specific event that happened during the ethnographic fieldwork, I deal with the differences in its interpretation. Referring to the interactionist theory of reasoning proposed by Dan Sperber and Hugo Mercier and on Anil Seth’s research on perception, I assume that these differences are the result of each person’s individually shaped perceptions and ways of reasoning. In this paper I seek to explain how perception and reasoning influence the formation of representations that arise in the human mind in relation to cultural as well as environmental phenomena.

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Author Biography

Sara Szweda, University of Gdansk

Cultural anthropologist, graduate in ethnology at the Institute of Anthropology, University of Gdańsk
Research Interests: anthropology of Amazonia, animism, medical anthropology, herbal medicine, traditional healing methods

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