SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Academic Year of enrolment:

2014/2015

Type of Course:

Basic

Optional/Mandatory:

Compulsory

Degree:

Bachelor's Degree Programme in SOCIAL WORK EUROPE ORIENTED

Disciplinary Sector:

Population Studies, Ethnography and Anthropology

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

LAI Franco Marcello

Hours of classroom activity:

Prerequisites:

None

AF code:

40001309

Assessment Methods

Verification of learning:

Oral

Teaching period

First semester

Objectives

The objectives of the course are: the main theories and methods of anthropological research, some issues of contemporary anthropological research. In particular, the course aims to provide tools for understanding consumer cultures and contemporary material culture.

Contents

The course contents are: the main theoretical and methodological models; the research about social and economic, political and cultural phenomenons (cultural consumption, body, memory, tgift economy, cultural globalization, landscape, urban spaces, warfare). The course investigates social life of things, material culture and consumption.

Recommended Bibliography

1) Fabio Dei, Antropologia culturale, il Mulino, Bologna, 2012, pp. 13-73, 91-106, 127-251.
2) Silvia Bernardi, Fabio Dei, Pietro Meloni, a cura di, La materia del quotidiano. Per un'antropologia degli oggetti ordinari, Pacini Editore, Pisa, 2011, pp. 5-57, 83-101, 125-144, 159-181.
3) Mary Douglas, Baron Isherwood, Il mondo delle cose. Oggetti, valori, consumo, il Mulino, Bologna, pp. 5-14, 17-78, 105-124, 161-195.

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