Learning objectives
KNOWLEDGE: To provide basic knowledge of anthropological questions in relation to the main contents and current debates on social and cultural issues.
COMPETENCE: to apply acquired knowledge in everyday and professional contests.
Course unit content
After having addressed the fundamental concepts and methods of the discipline, the course focuses on some particularly significant themes for the students' educational path through a critical perspective on the heritage production and "cultural objectification" processes. The insights will give students the opportunity to learn to "use" anthropology to understand the contexts in which they live, act and work.
Full programme
Introduction to main concepts and methods of the anthropological disciplines. The specificities of the anthropological discipline as 'intercultural par excellence' will be highlighted and particular attention will be paid to the "decentralization of the gaze" which produces a critical perspective. It will then go on the deconstruction of categories (such as culture, ethnicity, tradition) and on the analyses of the “cultural objectification" and of "heritagization” processes. Thanks to the discussion of ethnographic cases and seminars, it will be possible to understand how concepts, categories and processes operate both in Italy and on a global scale, and how they are incorporated and reproduced by both citizens and heritage professionals.
Bibliography
1. Fabietti, U., Elementi di antropologia culturale, Mondadori, 2015 (only some chapters that will be communicated during the course)
2. Lectures, Essays and Video online on Elly platform.
4. A book among the following ones:
- Bellatalla D., Mongolia. La terra degli inseguitori di nuvole, Oltre edizioni, Sestri Levante, 2018.
- Cangi, N., Piccinelli, B., Veri, L., (a cura di) Lontana terra. Diari di toscani in viaggio, ed. Terre di mezzo, Milano, 2005.
- Cecconi, A., I sogni vengono da fuori. Esplorazioni sulla notte nelle Ande Peruviane, Editpress, Firenze, 2012.
- Clemente, P., Tra musei e patrimonio. Prospettive demoetnoantropologiche nel nuovo millennio, a cura di E. Rossi, Ed. Museo Pasqualino, Palermo, 2021.
- Clemente, P., Mugnaini, F., (a cura di), Oltre il folklore. Tradizioni popolari e antropologia nella società contemporanea, Carocci, Roma, 2001.
- De Martino, E., Sud e magia, Feltrinelli, Milano, 2001.
- Guermandi, M. P., Decolonizzare il patrimonio. L’Europa, l’Italia e un passato che non passa, Castelvecchi, Roma, 2021.
- Harrison, R., Il patrimonio culturale : un approccio critico, a cura di V. Matera e L. Rimoldi , Pearson, Milano, 2020.
- Palumbo, B., L'UNESCO e il campanile. Antropologia, politica e beni culturali in Sicilia orientale, Meltemi, Milano, 2006.
- Turner V., Antropologia della performance, il Mulino, 1993.
Teaching methods
Blended method: Lessons and seminars; Lectures and discussions, Q&A, Documents and videos on Elly Platform.
Assessment methods and criteria
Oral examination.
The evaluation will be the following: the student will answer the questions correctly using an appropriate language, communication skills, and showing an excellent ability to apply, make connections, autonomy of judgment and critical re-elaboration of concepts (from 28 to 30 e Lode); the student will answer correctly the questions using an appropriate language, communication skills, and showing a good ability to apply, sufficient autonomy of judgment and critical re-elaboration of the concepts (from 25 to 27); the student will answer the questions correctly using a sufficiently appropriate language (from 21 to 24); the student will answer correctly at least a part of the essential questions using a sufficiently appropriate language (from 18 to 20).
Other information
Possibility of examination for non-italian speakers in English or French
