The teaching proposes a recognition of the themes of cultural and social anthropology: from the overcoming of the“race” and of every form of exclusion and discrimination; to the concept of culture through the relativism/ethnocentrism debate; in the complexity of ethnic identity, with the analysis of the historic process of diversity to the sociocultural realities of globalization, as migration, gender and body, together with new parental and family realities.
- Knowledge and understanding:
will become familiar with the basic concepts of social cultural anthropology, knowing the different interpretative theories of socio-cultural phenomena related to diversity.
- Applying knowledge and understanding:
it will be able to orient itself critically between the different representations of cultural plurality, reconstructing its historical-anthropological paths and analyzing its contradictions.
- Applying knowledge and understanding:
it will be able to orient itself critically between the different representations of cultural plurality, reconstructing its historical-anthropological paths and analyzing its contradictions.
- Communication skills:
on diversity it will be able to distinguish the plan of rhetoric from that of empirical research
- Knowledge and understanding:
will become familiar with the basic concepts of social cultural anthropology, knowing the different interpretative theories of socio-cultural phenomena related to diversity.
- Applying knowledge and understanding:
it will be able to orient itself critically between the different representations of cultural plurality, reconstructing its historical-anthropological paths and analyzing its contradictions.
- Applying knowledge and understanding:
it will be able to orient itself critically between the different representations of cultural plurality, reconstructing its historical-anthropological paths and analyzing its contradictions.
- Communication skills:
on diversity it will be able to distinguish the plan of rhetoric from that of empirical research
scheda docente
materiale didattico
2. A. Appadurai, N. Alexander, 2020, Fallimento, Raffaello Cortina, Milano.
Programma
The 6 credits course offers a survey of central themes and problems of cultural and social anthropology. After retracing some research points - the concept of culture, the overcoming of "race", relativism / ethnocentrism, ethnic identity, the analysis of the historical-social processes of contact that from the colonial situation reach the current realities of globalization, some lines of research will then be explored: the first related to the dynamics of contact creolization and transculturation, then to the analysis of some terrains of globalization, related to the contradictions of the dynamics related to network technologies, new work identities and economic models of success/failure.Testi Adottati
1. F. Pompeo, 2018, Elementi di antropologia critica, Meti, Torino.2. A. Appadurai, N. Alexander, 2020, Fallimento, Raffaello Cortina, Milano.
Modalità Valutazione
The mode is distance written examination through GOMP portal: : students will be evaluated through multiple choice questionnaire with two open questions on the texts. All provisions regulating the mode of teaching and assessment of students* with special needs will be implemented.