20710487 - CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY

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Mutuazione: 20710487 ANTROPOLOGIA CULTURALE in Scienze storiche, del territorio e per la cooperazione internazionale L-42 GRIBALDO ALESSANDRA MARGHERITA MATILDE

Programme

The first part of the course is an introduction to cultural anthropology, starting from the different subjects of anthropological knowledge in a historical view. The basic features of anthropological reasoning, the notions of relativism, culture, ethnic identity, and ethnographic method will be introduced.
The second part focuses on kinship and the diverse forms of family making, highlighting the multiple of practices and meanings involved through European and extra-European ethnographic studies. Issues addressed: the given dimension, the cultural costruction and the social practices of kinship and gender, the notions of motherhood and fatherhod, the construction of "race", the concepts related to reproduction and relatedness, genealogy, filiation and alliance, relevant changes in contemporary family making.


Core Documentation

Testi d’esame:

Pompeo, Francesco, Elementi di Antropologia Critica, Meti Edizioni, 2018 (Quarta edizione riveduta e ampliata).
Fabietti, Ugo, Elementi di Antropologia Culturale, Mondadori, 2015, (disponibile anche in versione digitale), le seguenti pagine: parte prima (pp. 34-53), parte sesta: cap. 1: La parentela come relazione e come rappresentazione (pp. 213-243) e cap. 3: La parentela come pratica sociale (pp. 250-270).

Più un testo a scelta tra i seguenti:

Gribaldo, Alessandra, La Natura scomposta. Riproduzione assistita, genere, parentela. Luca Sossella editore, 2005.
Ribeiro Corossacz, Valeria, Il corpo della nazione. Classificazione razziale e gestione sociale della riproduzione in Brasile. CISU 2004.

Gli studenti non frequentati dovranno aggiungere:
Remotti, Francesco, Contro Natura. Una lettera al papa. Laterza, 2008 (da pag. 71 a p. 222)



Type of delivery of the course

Students involvement is particularly welcome through critical remarks and comments, starting from specific case studies and the literature. In order to involve students frontal teaching and collegial discussions will alternate. Articles and essays to read and comment together will be shared during classes. Students' participation will be evaluated for the grade of the final exam.

Attendance

Participation is recommended

Type of evaluation

Oral evaluation