Programme

The main course of 6 credits in presence proposes a survey of themes and central problems of cultural and social anthropology. After having retraced some hubs of research - the concept of culture, the overcoming of the "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 research lines will therefore be studied in depth: the first is related to gender and body, a second one dedicated to migration and citizenship also in relation to services, in which the results of a research in a peripheral Roman territory will be presented, finally the third connected to the analysis of new parental and family realities. This program is integrated with the 3 cfu Ethnography Laboratory partly at a distance, through seminar meetings and with the analysis of a chosen anthropological essay included in the list published below.

Core Documentation

1. F. Pompeo, 2018, Elementi di antropologia critica, Meti, Torino, (Fourth edition revised and extended)
2. M. Fusaschi, 2018, Corpo non si nasce, si diventa. Antropo/logiche di genere nella globalizzatione, Cisu, Roma (Revised and enlarged second edition).

one to choose from the two routes

a) migrations and services. F. Pompeo, (edited by) Pigneto-Banglatown, Meti, Torino 2011 + research materials Municipio V (the materials correspond to a lesson of the autumn course; they will be presented again in a special lesson on 11 April 2019)

b) new kinship / family forms: C. Mattalucci (edited) Antropologia e riproduzione, Edizioni libreria Cortina, Milano 2017

for the Laboratory:

1) Cappelletto F., 2010, edited by, Vivere l'etnografia, Firenze, Seid.

2) a text of your choice on the list found on this site, to be communicated to the docen

Type of delivery of the course

The teaching takes place mainly in the traditional way, in addition to seminar meetings and some online materials.

Attendance

optional

Type of evaluation

The general mode is the oral examination; the writing is optional and can be requested.