ANTROPOLOGIA DEL MONDO CONTEMPORANEO

Lessons, seminars and presentations

The grounding of teaching to address the students to study of worlding elaborated by Joao de Pina-Cabral. This heuristic perspective would be beyond the traditional relativistic (the several representations of the world) and constructive (the study of process of social construction), viewing through the universalistic and realistic way.

The aims in-depth of teaching to provide a reflection about how traditionally the anthropology conceived the time in the cultures and societies of own interest, and how the contemporary anthropology thinking the temporalities (past-present-future). The focus of course is above all about how specificic orientations of future (anticipation, expectation, hope, potentiality, speculation, destiny) may orient our individual and social present life, focusing about the anthropology of energies and climate change.

Joao De Pina-Cabral, 2017, World. An Anthropological Examination, Chicago University Press, pp. 1-190 (volume disponibile nella Biblioteca del Dipartimento);

(Chi non ha sostenuto un corso di Antropologia nel suo corso di studi Triennale, porterà, al posto di questo testo, il volume di Matthew Engelke, 2018, Pensare come un antropologo, Einaudi, Torino, pp. 1-240)

Antropologia delle temporalità

Nancy Munn, 1992, « The cultural anthropology of Time », in Annual review of Anthropology, pp. 93-123 (disponibile in pdf su Studium)

Bryant, R., Knight, D., 2019, Anthropogy of Future, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-200;

Appadurai, A., 2016, Il futuro come fatto culturale, Raffello Cortina, Milano

A scelta:

Uno degli articoli contenuti nella dispensa sull’antropologia delle temporalità (disponibile su Studium)