SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Conventional oral exam regarding the course topics.
The course intends to provide basic knowledge of the main theories, methodological guidelines and a representative overview of contemporary social anthropology research topics
The course also aims to provide a basic knowledge for later courses in the same disciplines as part of master studies.
The course aims to provide the basic tools for understanding the social and cultural processes of the contemporary world in relation to the training objectives of the three-year degree courses: social services, cultural mediation and tourism.
Course L39, Social Service - 9 CFU:
1 – Branches of ethnological and anthropological studies;
2 – Race, culture, ethnicity;
3 – Ethnocentrism, relativism, human rights;
4 – The fieldwork;
5 – Theoretical paradigms;
6 – How anthropology explains / understands / interprets social phenomena;
7 – Popular culture and mass culture;
8 – Ethnography of cultural consumption;
9 – Body, health, illness;
10 – Social memory and history;
11 – Political economy and gift;
12 – Globalization and local cultures;
13 – Spaces, places, cities;
14 – War and forms of violence and genocide;
15 – Kinship, family, and gender;
16 – Work and forms of mobility in the contemporary world;
17 – The economic crisis and its impact on Italian society.
Courses L12, L15, L24 - 6 CFU:
1 – Branches of ethnological and anthropological studies;
2 – Race, culture, ethnicity;
3 – Ethnocentrism, relativism, human rights;
4 – The fieldwork;
5 – Theoretical paradigms;
6 – How anthropology explains / understands / interprets social phenomena;
7 – Popular culture and mass culture;
8 – Ethnography of cultural consumption;
9 – Body, health, illness;
10 – Social memory and history;
11 – Political economy and gift;
12 – Globalization and local cultures;
13 – Spaces, places, cities;
14 – War and forms of violence and genocide;
15 – Kinship, family, and gender;
Course L39, Social Service - 9 CFU:
1) Fabio Dei, Antropologia culturale, il Mulino, Bologna, seconda edizione, 2016 (chapters 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, pages 19-64, 101-116, 139-305).
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, pages 197-217.
3) Anthony Elliott, John Urry, Vite mobili. Un salto nel futuro?, in Anthony Elliott, John Urry, Vite mobili, il Mulino, Bologna, 2013, pages 13-45.
3) Amalia Signorelli, La vita al tempo della crisi, Einaudi, Torino, 2016.
ATTENDING STUDENTS COURSES L12, L15, L24 - 6 CFU:
1) Fabio Dei, Antropologia culturale, il Mulino, Bologna, seconda edizione, 2016 (chapters 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, pages 19-64, 101-116, 139-305).
NOT ATTENDING STUDENTS COURSES L12, L15, L24 – 6 CFU:
1) Fabio Dei, Antropologia culturale, il Mulino, Bologna, seconda edizione, 2016 (the whole book).
Large use of Power Point presentations and other audiovisual materials characterizes the course of Media Anthropology