20710688-1 - MODULO 1

The course aims to forming an anthropologist who measures herself with the issues related to the needs of the environment, in relation to the multiplicity of cultures and how they interact with the habitat that contributes to their constitution. On the one hand, measuring oneself with variety and multiplicity, on the other hand, imagining ways to make the world more and more liveable, for a future corrected by the errors and vices of the past. This means working collectively to read, interpret and transform the world, within a plural society where all identities and otherness are represented. Starting from a non-hegemonic, plural and dialogical ethnography, governed by a positive confrontation with others and by an anthropology that is not only an analysis of the present but also a project for a sustainable future. Listening to the voices that make up the present is indispensable for imagining a livable world from the plurality of paradigms of existence that compose it.
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Programme

I think the fundamental issue is to start considering the consequences of everyone's actions and behaviour. And to be aware of our actions. And to put this into the perspective of the context in which we live. A context that is no longer the one immediately surrounding us, but concerns the habitat, the entire planet.
Anthropology is indispensable for rethinking all of this in order to make it clear that another world is possible and that no one can prevent us not only from thinking about it, but also from trying to achieve it.


Core Documentation

1. A textbook for the general part:
Jared Diamond, Il mondo fino a ieri, Torino, Einaudi, 2013.

2. The monographic part includes:
Stefano De Matteis, Il dilemma dell’aragosta. La forza della vunerabilità, Milano, Meltemi, 2021.


Type of delivery of the course

Face-to-face lessons, showing of a selection of films and documentaries, field practice.

Type of evaluation

Oral examination.