SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY

This teaching module has the aim to facilitate the acquisition of the basic elements of cultural and social anthropology, allowing the student to better understand some of the most significant phenomena about contemporary global world: memory systems and the political making of heritages, ethnic and religious conflicts, urban life, the configurations of kinship. Thus it encourages awareness of concepts such as culture, ethnicity, identity, otherness, etc.

The course introduces students to anthropology of contemporary world, to address relevant questions about own and others’ societies; the power disequalities inside and outside societies; dialogues between cultures; the reification processes of cultures; interethnic and religious conflicts. The course introduces students to anthropological analitical domains which will be analized with more relevant historical and contemporary approaches.

• Fabio Dei, 2016, Antropologia culturale (second edition), Il Mulino, Bologna (chapters. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15), pages 260.

• Maurizio Ambrosiani, Richiesti e respinti: l’immigrazione in Italia: come e perché, Il Saggiatore, Milano 2010.

Please remember that in compliance with art 171 L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.

For further information on sanctions and regulations concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian Association on Copyright).

All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.