2014/2015

2016/2017

DM270

M-DEA/01 (POPULATION STUDIES, ETHNOGRAPHY AND ANTHROPOLOGY)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

PHILOSOPHY

PERCORSO COMUNE

3°

1st semester (26/09/2016 - 11/01/2017)

6

36 lesson hours

ITALIAN

ORAL TEST

CANEVARI MATTEO (titolare) - 6 ECTS

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The course critically discusses the theories and practices of cultural anthropology.
It analyzes the dynamics of representation of identity and its political uses in the contemporary world.
The students are expected to know the theoretical and political components on the anthropology in order to comprehend the processes of identity and difference constructions in the contemporary world.

The course of Cultural Anthropology will develop different arguments. A part of the lessons will be dedicated to the methodological and epistemological questions about the main anthropological concept of “culture” in his historical evolution. The original approach of Clifford Geertz, called hermeneutical approach, will be analyzed in the news perspectives of research it will offer. We’ll consider also the theory of anthropology as cultural critic and the new reflections about the contemporary world of Marc Augé, Ulf Hannerz and Arjun Appadurai. Finally we’ll examine the theatrical paradigm in social sciences moving from the reflections of Victor Turner.
The course will be improved with slides and other materials showed by the teacher during the lessons.

Lectures

The students who don't read Italian can retrieve some texts in original language and can arrange a program with the teacher

For all the students:

- U. Fabietti, Antropologia Culturale. L'esperienza e l'interpretazione, Laterza.
- S. Borutti, Filosofia delle scienze umane. La categorie dell'Antropologia e della Sociologia, Bruno Mondadori (solo capitoli 1 e 2)
- M. Canevari, Lo specchio infedele. Prospettive per il paradigma teatrale in antropologia, Mimesis
- Others materials showed by the teacher during the lessonsmust be asked to the teacher


For the students in Filosofia, Scienze Politiche, Musicologia, Lettere Classiche.

- S. Borutti, Filosofia delle scienze umane. La categorie dell'Antropologia e della Sociologia, Bruno Mondadori, cap. 3 "Antropologia"

For students in Lingue, Linguistica, CIM, Lettere Moderne
S. Borutti, La Babele in cui viviamo. Traduzioni, Riscritture, Culture, Bollati Boringhieri, cap. 3 e 4

For all the students, a text to choice:

- A. Appadurai, Modernità in polvere, Raffaello Cortina
- M. Augé, L'antropologia e il mondo globale, Raffaello Cortina
- M. Augé, Storie del presente. Per un'antropologia dei mondi contemporanei, Il Saggiatore
- E. De Martino, La terra del rimorso. Contributo a una storia religiosa del Sud, Il Saggiatore
- E. De Martino, Sud e magia, Feltrinelli
- C. Geertz, Antropologia interpretativa, Il Mulino
- U. Hannerz, La diversità culturale, Il Mulino
- M. Leiris, La possessione e i suoi aspetti teatrali presso gli Etiopi di Gondar, Ubublibri
- V. Turner, Antropologia della performance, Il Mulino
- V. Turner, Dal rito al teatro, Il Mulino
- V. Turner, Il processo rituale, Morcelliana

Oral exmination

Oral exmination