Learning objectives
<br /> <br /> <br /><br /> The course has been designed to offer, as a primary goal, a basis in the history of knowledge and demo-ethno-anthropological studies. As a result of the development of the course syllabus, it has been decided to emphasize the notion of material culture by examining the value of objects as culturally significant units. Of these, their constitution, values, relationship between production and memory and material and symbolic function are examined .
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Course unit content
<br /><br />The symbolic constitution of an object<br />Anthropology of material culture and patrimonialisation processes.<br /> <br />In this course, special emphasis is given the symbolic constitution of the object and, as a result, its involvement in the dynamics of a rite, its portrayal and identity.<br /> <br />Towards this end, the course has been divided into three sections:<br /> <br />The anthropological approach<br />Knowledge of anthropologists. Research, description, ethnographic writing. Research methods: from cataloguing procedures to ethnological reflection. Anthropology of the present. <br /> <br />Traces of symbol and rite<br />The symbolic constitution of an object examined through the identification of traces that can probe the substance of its involvement in the realm of “Passage” (life cycle) and “Dwelling”. <br /> <br />Museums and places of interpretation<br />Anthropological museums and museum anthropology. Material culture and patrimonialisation processes. Museums of material culture as spaces for interpretation<br /> <br /> <br /><br />The course is supplemented by a seminar entitled “Itinerary of the object”, divided into two parts: The object and how it is seen. Images and the image of the object, Objects and museums. Show, display, depict. In addition, further study is also arranged at a number of ethno-anthropological collections in the province of Parma. <br /> <br /><br /> <br />
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Bibliography
<br /><br /><br /><br />BIBLIOGRAPHY: <br /> <br />- Marc Auge, Non Luoghi. Introduzione ad una antropologia della surmodernita, Milano, Eleuthera, 1996 <br />- Emanuela Rossi. Pietro Clemente , Il terzo principio della museografia. Antropologia, contadini, musei, Roma, Carocci, 1999<br /><br /> .
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