CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY

This teaching course aims to:

1) know the aims, the concepts and the analytical instruments which define the anthropological study of human life, compared to others social sciences (sociology, philosophy, history, economy, etctera);

2) widen one’s own mental/social horizons and own worldview;

3) deconstructing the stereotypes;

4) developing the critical thinking;

5) understand the inequalities and the hierarchies inherent in social relations, including of kinship and gender;

6) understand the making of global and local cultures;

7) understand the ethnic and religious violences.

Lectures, presentation of audiovisual materials, seminars.

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 focus course reflect about the transformations of ethnographic research style and ethnographic writing, considering 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.

Obbligatori:

Tim Ingold, 2020, Antropologia. Ripensare il mondo, Meltemi, Milano, pp. 110

Matthew Engelke, 2018, Pensare come un antropologo, Einaudi, Torino, pp. 260

Uno a scelta tra i seguenti volumi:

Sharham Khosravi, 2019, Io sono confine, Eleuthera, Milano, pp. 220

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

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