SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Academic Year of enrolment:

2015/2016

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

Obligatory attendance:

Yes

Minimum hours of attendance:

Hours of classroom activity:

Prerequisites:

None

AF code:

40001309

Assessment Methods

Verification of learning:

Oral examination.

Teaching period

First semester

Objectives

This course provides the basic knowledge relating to the main theories, methodological guidelines and a representative overview of the research topics.
The course aims at basic knowledge to deal with studies of the same scientific sector.
The selected handbook is very useful as a study tool for beginning students in Anthropology. The text contains illustrations (photos, thematic maps), a final summary in each chapter and a general glossary.
ONLY FOR STUDENTS COURSE L39: The course includes a educational study for Social Service students: the mobility of population in relation to globalization.

Contents

In summary, the course contents are:
1) beginning and the development of the anthropological thought;
2) ethnographic method;
3) cultures and cultural diversity;
4) ritual;
5) religion;
6) material culture;
7) family and kinship;
8) economic and political organizations
9) body;
10) political economy, society, culture and globalization.

ONLY FOR L39 STUDENTS:
11) with regard to the item 10 the course includes a study on the social and cultural aspects of population mobility in relation to work and migration.

Recommended Bibliography

STUDENTS COURSE L39 - SOCIAL SERVICE STUDENTS

1) Emily A. Schultz, Robert H. Lavenda, Antropologia culturale, Zanichelli, Bologna, edizione del 2015.
2) Le letture di approfondimento verranno fornite nel corso delle lezioni. In particolare verranno presi in considerazione i seguenti testi:
I) Anthony Elliott, John Urry, Vite mobili. Un salto nel futuro?, in Anthony Elliott, John Urry,Vite mobili, il Mulino, Bologna, 2013, pp. 13-45;
II) i seguenti saggi tratti da Francesco Bachis, Antonio M. Pusceddu, a cura di, Storie di questo mondo, CISU, Roma, 2013:
- Dionigi Albera, Simboli religiosi e costruzione di identità diasporiche nel Midi francese, pp. 135-154;
- Rosa M. Meloni, Vivere in transito. La mobilità pendolare nel lavoro di cura delle migranti romene nel nord Sardegna, pp. 197-217.

ATTENDING STUDENTS, COURSES L15 AND L12:

Emily A. Schultz, Robert H. Lavenda, Antropologia culturale, Zanichelli, Bologna, edizione del 2015.

NON ATTENDING STUDENTS, COURSE L15:

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. 

NON ATTENDING STUDENTS, COURSE L12:

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.

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