CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Lessons, seminars, audiovisual materials

The core course introduces the students to the mental laboratory of the anthropologist, who through the ethnographic practice observes, participates and interprets the social life of particular subjects from the inside, including their ideas, behaviours, worldviews, practices.

The seminar propose a methodological focus on the transformations of ethnographic research style and ethnographic writing. We will consider some contemporary ethnographic monographies which propose a new view of anthropological knowledge project, characterized by a critique of contemporary world, an analysis of inequalities and power dynamics, and a reflexive take on the role, legitimacy, and authority of an anthropologist in fieldwork.

Matthew Engelke, 2018, Pensare come un antropologo, Einaudi, Torino ;

Tim Ingold, Conoscere dall’interno (articolo disponibile online su Studium) ;

One of these books:

Thomas Hylland Heriksen, 2017, Fuori controllo. Un’antropologia del cambiamento accellerato, Einaudi, Torino ;

Sharham Khosravi, 2019, Io sono confine, Eleuthera, Milano;

Giuliana Sanò, 2018, Fabbriche di plastica, Ombre Corte, Verona, pp. 200