Programme

After briefly introducing the different objects of anthropological knowledge from a historical perspective, the course will focus on the themes of the supernatural, magic and witchcraft between history, power, body, disease and society. In particular, the lessons will focus on rationality and belief systems, on the role of the historical and colonial dimension, on the symbolic, on power relations, on the notion of contagion in its social and cultural implications.

Core Documentation

Testi d’esame (gli studenti che hanno già sostenuto un esame di antropologia culturale possono concordare con la docente un testo alternativo):

Fabietti, Malighetti, Matera, Dal tribale al globale. Introduzione all'antropologia, Bruno Mondadori, 2012 (disponibile anche in versione digitale).

Più un testo a scelta tra i seguenti:

Bellagamba, Alice, L'Africa e la stregoneria. Saggio di antropologia storica, Laterza, 2008.
Evans-Pritchard, Edward, Stregoneria, oracoli e magia tra gli Azande, Raffaello Cortina, 2002.
Douglas, Mary, Purezza e pericolo, Il Mulino, 1996.
Kitta, A. The Kiss of Death: Contagion, Contamination, and Folklore, Utah State University Press, 2019.
Quaranta, I. Corpo, potere e malattia. Antropologia e Aids nei Grassfields del Camerun, Meltemi, 2006.
Taussig, Michael T., Il diavolo e il feticismo della merce, Derive Approdi 2017.

For those attending, it is possible to replace the text of your choice with 4 essays (which the teacher will make available to the students during the course) of which one or two will be chosen and presented by the attending student and discussed collegially in class.

Non attending students will add:
Fabietti, Ugo, Elementi di antropologia culturale, Mondadori, 2015: parte quarta (sistemi di pensiero) e parte settima (dimensione religiosa, esperienza rituale).

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. One or two film documentaries will be screened. 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. Classes will be held in the classroom with the possibility of following remotely on Teams. They will not be recorded.

Type of evaluation

Students' participation will contribute to the mark of the final exam.

Programme

After briefly introducing the different objects of anthropological knowledge from a historical perspective, the course will focus on the themes of the supernatural, magic and witchcraft between history, power, body, disease and society. In particular, the lessons will focus on rationality and belief systems, on the role of the historical and colonial dimension, on the symbolic, on power relations, on the notion of contagion in its social and cultural implications.

Core Documentation

Testi d’esame (gli studenti che hanno già sostenuto un esame di antropologia culturale possono concordare con la docente un testo alternativo):

Fabietti, Malighetti, Matera, Dal tribale al globale. Introduzione all'antropologia, Bruno Mondadori, 2012 (disponibile anche in versione digitale).

Più un testo a scelta tra i seguenti:

Bellagamba, Alice, L'Africa e la stregoneria. Saggio di antropologia storica, Laterza, 2008.
Evans-Pritchard, Edward, Stregoneria, oracoli e magia tra gli Azande, Raffaello Cortina, 2002.
Douglas, Mary, Purezza e pericolo, Il Mulino, 1996.
Kitta, A. The Kiss of Death: Contagion, Contamination, and Folklore, Utah State University Press, 2019.
Quaranta, I. Corpo, potere e malattia. Antropologia e Aids nei Grassfields del Camerun, Meltemi, 2006.
Taussig, Michael T., Il diavolo e il feticismo della merce, Derive Approdi 2017.

For those attending, it is possible to replace the text of your choice with 4 essays (which the teacher will make available to the students during the course) of which one or two will be chosen and presented by the attending student and discussed collegially in class.

Non attending students will add:
Fabietti, Ugo, Elementi di antropologia culturale, Mondadori, 2015: parte quarta (sistemi di pensiero) e parte settima (dimensione religiosa, esperienza rituale).

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. One or two film documentaries will be screened. 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. Classes will be held in the classroom with the possibility of following remotely on Teams. They will not be recorded.

Type of evaluation

Students' participation will contribute to the mark of the final exam.

Programme

After briefly introducing the different objects of anthropological knowledge from a historical perspective, the course will focus on the themes of the supernatural, magic and witchcraft between history, power, body, disease and society. In particular, the lessons will focus on rationality and belief systems, on the role of the historical and colonial dimension, on the symbolic, on power relations, on the notion of contagion in its social and cultural implications.

Core Documentation

Testi d’esame (gli studenti che hanno già sostenuto un esame di antropologia culturale possono concordare con la docente un testo alternativo):

Fabietti, Malighetti, Matera, Dal tribale al globale. Introduzione all'antropologia, Bruno Mondadori, 2012 (disponibile anche in versione digitale).

Più un testo a scelta tra i seguenti:

Bellagamba, Alice, L'Africa e la stregoneria. Saggio di antropologia storica, Laterza, 2008.
Evans-Pritchard, Edward, Stregoneria, oracoli e magia tra gli Azande, Raffaello Cortina, 2002.
Douglas, Mary, Purezza e pericolo, Il Mulino, 1996.
Kitta, A. The Kiss of Death: Contagion, Contamination, and Folklore, Utah State University Press, 2019.
Quaranta, I. Corpo, potere e malattia. Antropologia e Aids nei Grassfields del Camerun, Meltemi, 2006.
Taussig, Michael T., Il diavolo e il feticismo della merce, Derive Approdi 2017.

For those attending, it is possible to replace the text of your choice with 4 essays (which the teacher will make available to the students during the course) of which one or two will be chosen and presented by the attending student and discussed collegially in class.

Non attending students will add:
Fabietti, Ugo, Elementi di antropologia culturale, Mondadori, 2015: parte quarta (sistemi di pensiero) e parte settima (dimensione religiosa, esperienza rituale).

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. One or two film documentaries will be screened. 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. Classes will be held in the classroom with the possibility of following remotely on Teams. They will not be recorded.

Type of evaluation

Students' participation will contribute to the mark of the final exam.

Programme

After briefly introducing the different objects of anthropological knowledge from a historical perspective, the course will focus on the themes of the supernatural, magic and witchcraft between history, power, body, disease and society. In particular, the lessons will focus on rationality and belief systems, on the role of the historical and colonial dimension, on the symbolic, on power relations, on the notion of contagion in its social and cultural implications.

Core Documentation

Testi d’esame (gli studenti che hanno già sostenuto un esame di antropologia culturale possono concordare con la docente un testo alternativo):

Fabietti, Malighetti, Matera, Dal tribale al globale. Introduzione all'antropologia, Bruno Mondadori, 2012 (disponibile anche in versione digitale).

Più un testo a scelta tra i seguenti:

Bellagamba, Alice, L'Africa e la stregoneria. Saggio di antropologia storica, Laterza, 2008.
Evans-Pritchard, Edward, Stregoneria, oracoli e magia tra gli Azande, Raffaello Cortina, 2002.
Douglas, Mary, Purezza e pericolo, Il Mulino, 1996.
Kitta, A. The Kiss of Death: Contagion, Contamination, and Folklore, Utah State University Press, 2019.
Quaranta, I. Corpo, potere e malattia. Antropologia e Aids nei Grassfields del Camerun, Meltemi, 2006.
Taussig, Michael T., Il diavolo e il feticismo della merce, Derive Approdi 2017.

For those attending, it is possible to replace the text of your choice with 4 essays (which the teacher will make available to the students during the course) of which one or two will be chosen and presented by the attending student and discussed collegially in class.

Non attending students will add:
Fabietti, Ugo, Elementi di antropologia culturale, Mondadori, 2015: parte quarta (sistemi di pensiero) e parte settima (dimensione religiosa, esperienza rituale).

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. One or two film documentaries will be screened. 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. Classes will be held in the classroom with the possibility of following remotely on Teams. They will not be recorded.

Type of evaluation

Students' participation will contribute to the mark of the final exam.