The course aims to:
a) Introduce students to different fields of Anthropology in understanding socio-cultural diversity in the processes of globalization.
b) Reconstructing the path and the contemporary critical debate on basic anthropological issues as identity, culture and ethnicity, in relation to the dynamics of transnationalism, mobility, creolization and cultures traffic
c) Highlight the various approaches of ethnographical practice, starting from participant observation and fieldwork, up to the multi-sited and multi-scalar perspective, analyzing and assuming different postures (gender ethnography in the local and global contexts).
a) Introduce students to different fields of Anthropology in understanding socio-cultural diversity in the processes of globalization.
b) Reconstructing the path and the contemporary critical debate on basic anthropological issues as identity, culture and ethnicity, in relation to the dynamics of transnationalism, mobility, creolization and cultures traffic
c) Highlight the various approaches of ethnographical practice, starting from participant observation and fieldwork, up to the multi-sited and multi-scalar perspective, analyzing and assuming different postures (gender ethnography in the local and global contexts).
teacher profile teaching materials
2. A Appadurai, N. Alexander, 2020, Fallimento, Raffaello Cortina, Milano
3. M. Fusaschi, 2011, Quando il corpo è delle altre, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino
Programme
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 linked to technological transformation and the notion of crisis, the second dedicated to genres, body and humanitarian discourse.Core Documentation
1. F. Pompeo, 2018, Elementi di antropologia critica, Meti, Torino,2. A Appadurai, N. Alexander, 2020, Fallimento, Raffaello Cortina, Milano
3. M. Fusaschi, 2011, Quando il corpo è delle altre, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino
Reference Bibliography
1. F. Pompeo, 2018, Elementi di antropologia critica, Meti, Torino, 2. A Appadurai, N. Alexander, 2020, Fallimento, Raffaello Cortina, Milano 3. M. Fusaschi, 2011, Quando il corpo è delle altre, Bollati Boringhieri, TorinoType of delivery of the course
The teaching takes place mainly in the traditional way, in addition to seminar meetings and some online materials.In the event of an extension of the health emergency from COVID-19, all the provisions governing the methods of carrying out teaching activities and student evaluation will be implemented.Type of evaluation
The general mode is the oral examination: students will bring the expected program and will be assessed through an interview on the texts (one / two questions for each text for a maximum duration of 20 minutes). The written, or multiple choice questionnaire is optional and can be requested or proposed in relation to large numbers. In the event of an extension of the health emergency from COVID-19, all the provisions governing the methods of carrying out teaching activities and student evaluation will be implemented.