Courses L12, L15 (30 hours, 6 CFU)

The course will cover the following topics:
- origin and sense of social and cultural anthropology;
- themes, methods and essential feature of social and cultural anthropology;
- race, genes and culture;
- historical forms of adaptation;
- orality and writing;
- interpretations of magic and mythological thinking;
- identity, body, person; sex, gender, emotion;
- castes, social classes and ethnic groups;
- kinship;
- religious practices;
- rites;
- globalization and new cults, media, politics, fundamentalism;
- cultural creativity and “tribal” arts in western countries;
- power and economic resources: forms of economic organization and politics.

Course L39 (45 hours, 9 CFU)

The course will cover the following topics:
- origin and sense of social and cultural anthropology;
- themes, methods and essential feature of social and cultural anthropology;
- race, genes and culture;
- historical forms of adaptation;
- orality and writing;
- interpretations of magic and mythological thinking;
- identity, body, person; sex, gender, emotion;
- castes, social classes and ethnic groups;
- kinship;
- religious practices;
- rites;
- globalization and new cults, media, politics, fundamentalism;
- cultural creativity and “tribal” arts in western countries;
- power and economic resources: forms of economic organization and politics;
- anthropology of schooling in a globalized world.