CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Academic Year of enrolment:

2020/2021

Type of Course:

Related/Supplementary

Optional/Mandatory:

Optional

Degree:

Bachelor's Degree Programme in HUMANITIES

Disciplinary Sector:

Population Studies, Ethnography and Anthropology

Language:

Italian

Credits:

Programme Year:

Hours of classroom activity:

Prerequisites:

There are no specific prerequisites.

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CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY

CULTURAL HERITAGE SCIENCES

AF code:

40001308

Assessment Methods

Verification of learning:

The exam can be carried out in a oral form or, optionally, in a mixed written/oral form. Students who choose the second option will take a written pre-exam that will focus exclusively on the Fabietti handbook (text 1) and will consist of multiple choice questions and two open questions (3 hours). The remaining texts will be examined in the next oral exam, according to the scheduled calendar. The written pre-exam must be taken in the same session as the oral exam.

Teaching period

Second semester

Objectives

The course aims to offer students the basic notions and tools of cultural anthropology, providing the analytical-interpretative keys of the discipline regarding themes and fields of investigation that historically typical (culture, race, gender, cultural relativism and ethnocentrism etc.) that deeply question contemporary global issues (environmental crisis, migration, circulation and consumption of commodities, etc.), with particular reference to the human-environment relationship and heritage processes. At the same time, the course aims to provide the basic knowledge and skills for conducting an ethnographic investigation.

NOTE: taking into consideration the workload necessary for the study of the bibliography indicated for the exam (both 6 and 12 CFU), it is specified that the student will not be asked to have a refined and meticulous preparation on ethnographic details and particular cases, but a 'broad' preparation that demonstrates competence and awareness in the use and exposition of concepts, themes and methods of the discipline.

Contents

The course aims to offer students the basic knowledge of the demo-ethno-anthropological disciplines by introducing them to the main methods, fields, notions and perspectives of investigation (Nature/Culture divide, ethnocentrism/cultural relativism, main authors and currents of the 20th century, ethnography and field research, identity-otherness, race-racism, gender, plurality of forms of social, political, economic and religious life, migration, etc.). Subject of specific study and reflection will be: 1) ethnographic field research (observer/observed relationship, the relationship between field experience, textualization and other documentation techniques, participatory research methods etc.), (2) the relationship between forms of human life and living environments and (3) the relationship between humans and objects artifacts), in the framework of the so-called “Anthropocene” and of the Heritage processes (both of “cultural” and “environmental” heritage), in a perspective open to comparison with non-Euro-Mediterranean contexts (mostly American and Oceanian indigenous contexts).

Recommended Bibliography

For all students (6 CFU and 12 CFU program)
1) Fabietti, U., 2015, Elementi di antropologia culturale, Mondadori (excluding part three)
2) Pennacini, C., 2011, La ricerca sul campo in antropologia. Oggetti e metodi, Carocci (introduction + 6 chapters of your choice)

For 12 CFU program, in addition to 1) and 2), one text chosen from one of the two topic 3) o 4), for e total of three texts:
3) Human-environment relationship (only one text chosen among the following)
- Descola, P., 2013, L’ecologia degli altri. L’antropologia e la questione della natura, Linaria
- Ingold, T., 2016, Ecologia della cultura, Meltemi
- Moore J., 2015, Ecologia-mondo e crisi del capitalismo. La fine della natura a buon mercato, Ombre Corte
- Sahlins, M., 2010, Un grosso sbaglio. L’idea occidentale di natura umana, Elèuthera

4) Human-artifacts relationship (only one text chosen among the following)
- Dei, F., Meloni, P., Antropologia della cultura materiale, Carocci - Domenici., D., 2017, Il senso delle cose. Materialità ed estetica nell’arte mesoamericana, Bononia University Press
- Paini, A., Aria, M., (a c. di), 2015, La densità delle cose. Oggetti ambasciatori tra Oceania e Europa, Pisa, Pacini editore (Introduzione, Parte Prima capitolo 1, Parte Seconda: tutta, Parte Terza: capitolo 1 e 2, Epilogo)
- Price, S., 2015 (1989), I primitivi traditi. L’arte dei «selvaggi» e la presunzione occidentale, Johan & Levi

Non-attending students (6 CFU program):
In addition to 1) Fabietti and 2) Pennacini, one text chosen among those of group 3) or 4)
3 TEXTS IN TOTAL.

Non-attending students (12 CFU program):
In addition to 1) Fabietti and 2) Pennacini, one text chosen among those of group 3) and one among those of group 4)
4 TEXTS IN TOTAL.

Methods of Provision

Conventional

Teaching Methods

The teaching will basically be provided through frontal teaching with the support of PowerPoint, audio-visual materials and the viewing of documentaries/films. During the lessons, participatory and active involvement methods of students may be adopted, both individually and as a group (oral and written exercises, debates, focus groups etc.).

Contacts/More Information

From February to May the office hours for students will take place on Fridays from 13.30 to 14.30 (Palazzo Segni), by appointment.

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