Study-unit CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
| Course name | Sciences of education |
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| Study-unit Code | 35080606 |
| Curriculum | Educatore professionale socio-pedagogico |
| Lecturer | Pietro Meloni |
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| CFU | 6 |
| Course Regulation | Coorte 2021 |
| Supplied | 2021/22 |
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| Learning activities | Base |
| Area | Discipline filosofiche, psicologiche, sociologiche e antropologiche |
| Sector | M-DEA/01 |
| Type of study-unit | Obbligatorio (Required) |
| Type of learning activities | Attività formativa monodisciplinare |
| Language of instruction | Italian |
| Contents | In the first part of the course, the theoretical foundations and the main concepts of the discipline, with brief notes on the history of Anthropology – as well as classic and contemporary ethnographic cases – will be illustrated. In the second part, referring to the key concepts of the scientific debate, we will try to reflect – opening the discussion in the classroom – on complex issues such as: culture, economy, religion, family, gender, tradition, transmission of knowledge, heritage. In the third part attention will be paid to studies on everyday life and consumption. |
| Reference texts | 1. Ugo Fabietti, Elementi di antropologia culturale (terza edizione), Milano, Mondadori, 2015. 2. Pietro Meloni, Antropologia del consumo. Doni, merci, simboli, Carocci, Roma, 2018. |
| Educational objectives | Expected learning outcomes: knowledge and comprehension skills; analysis, synthesis and argumentation skills; critical and interdisciplinary connecting skills; autonomy of judgment; ability of diachronic data organization, personal evaluation and synchronic use of the acquired skills. Communication skills: ability to communicate knowledge in an appropriate anthropological language. Learning skills: acquisition of a critical learning method. |
| Prerequisites | No |
| Teaching methods | Lectures |
| Other information | No |
| Learning verification modality | oral verification and/or test |
| Extended program | In the first part of the course, the theoretical foundations and the main concepts of the discipline, with brief notes on the history of Anthropology – as well as classic and contemporary ethnographic cases – will be illustrated. Specifically we will address the following topics: - Introduction to the anthropological perspective - cultural anthropology in the frame of human sciences - Origins of Anthropology - The anthropological definition of the “concept of culture”. In the second part, referring to the key concepts of the scientific debate, we will try to reflect – opening the discussion in the classroom – on complex issues such as: culture, economy, religion, family, gender, tradition, transmission of knowledge, heritage. Specifically we will address the following topics: - The construction of “race” concept. - The deconstruction of the concept of “race”. - The notion of relativity: questions of method and ethics. - The concept of culture: definitions and etymology. Essentialist conceptions and processual conceptions. Some anthropological definitions of the concept of culture. - The relational notion of “identity”: “us” and “them”. - New forms of separation. Forms of racism. Institutional racisms. Cultural relativism and ethnocentrism. Critical ethnocentrism. - “Biological” and “socio-cultural”: gender, gender and sexuality. Family-families. Contextualization of the family concept. Specifically we will address the following topics: - Ethnography; anthropological research methodologies and looks on the world. - The relationship between food and culture. - The common sense. - Theories of consumption. - Media and digital culture. |