SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Academic Year of enrolment:

2016/2017

Type of Course:

Basic

Optional/Mandatory:

Compulsory

Degree:

Bachelor's Degree Programme in SOCIAL WORK

Disciplinary Sector:

Population Studies, Ethnography and Anthropology

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

LAI Franco Marcello

Obligatory attendance:

Yes

Minimum hours of attendance:

22.5

Hours of classroom activity:

Prerequisites:

Prerequisites are not required.

AF code:

40001309

Assessment Methods

Verification of learning:

The verification will take place according to a conventional oral examination about course topics.

Teaching period

First semester

Objectives

The course will provide basic knowledge concerning the main theories, methodological guidelines and a representative overview of the research themes in contemporary anthropology.
The course will provide the basic tools for understanding social and cultural processes of the contemporary world in relation to the educational purpose of the degree courses, particularly the service sector: social work, cultural mediation, and tourism.

Contents

In short the course contents of Social anthropology are as follows:
1) the anthropological perspective;
2) the anthropological research tools;
3) the fieldwork;
4) the cultural diversity;
5) the human communication;
6) games, arts, myths, rituals.
7) religions;
8) material life;
9) livelihood strategies;
10) kinship models;
11) family models;
12) social inequalities;
13) the ealth;
14) globalization, human rights, migrations.

Recommended Bibliography

L39 – SOCIAL WORK:
1) Emily A. Schultz, Robert H. Lavenda, Antropologia culturale, Zanichelli, Bologna, edizione del 2015.
2.1) Anthony Elliott, John Urry, Vite mobili. Un salto nel futuro?, in Anthony Elliott, John Urry,Vite mobili, il Mulino, Bologna, 2013, pp. 13-45;
2.2) Rosa M. Meloni, Vivere in transito. La mobilità pendolare nel lavoro di cura delle migranti romene nel nord Sardegna, in F. Bachis, A. M. Pusceddu, a cura di, Storie di questo mondo, CISU, Roma, 2013, pp. 197-217.
2.3) Federico Scarpelli, La memoria e l’emergenza, in F. Scarpelli, a cura di, Il rione incompiuto. Antropologia urbana dell’Esquilino, CISU, Roma, 2009, pp. 65-115.

ATTENDING STUDENTS L15 – CULTURAL TOURISM STUDIES
1) Emily A. Schultz, Robert H. Lavenda, Antropologia culturale, Zanichelli, Bologna, edizione del 2015.

NOT ATTENDING STUDENTS L15 – CULTURAL TOURISM STUDIES
1) Emily A. Schultz, Robert H. Lavenda, Antropologia culturale, Zanichelli, Bologna, edizione del 2015.
2) Franco Lai, Nadia Breda, a cura di, Antropologia del «Terzo Paesaggio», CISU, Roma, 2011, pp. 11‐48, 75‐ 143. 

ATTENDING STUDENTS L12 – LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL MEDIATION:
1) Emily A. Schultz, Robert H. Lavenda, Antropologia culturale, Zanichelli, Bologna, edizione del 2015.

ATTENDING STUDENTS L12 – LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL MEDIATION:
1) Emily A. Schultz, Robert H. Lavenda, Antropologia culturale, Zanichelli, Bologna, edizione del 2015.
2) Adriano Favole, La bussola dell’antropologo. Orientarsi in un mare di culture, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2015.

Teaching Methods

The extensive use of Power Point presentations and other audiovisual aids characterizes the course of Social Anthropology.

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