The first part of the course will be dedicated to the presentation of the distinctive elements - theoretical and methodological - of cultural anthropology and some of the disciplinary areas in which it exercises its critical vocation. Among the topics covered: notes on the history of anthropology; objects and methods of the discipline; distinctive features of the anthropological perspective; notions of race, culture and ethnicity; relativism and ethnocentrism; ethnographic methods, participant observation and theoretical paradigms; folklore, popular culture, mass culture and ethnography of cultural consumption; time, memory and history; global and local cultures; anthropology of violence and genocide; kinship and relatedness.
The second part of the course will focus on the contribution provided by anthropology to the analysis and implementation of cultural heritage making processes.

1. Dei F., Antropologia culturale, Seconda edizione, Il Mulino 2016
2. Lattanzi V., Musei e antropologia. Storia, esperienze, prospettive, Carocci 2021
3. Grechi G., Decolonizzare il museo. Mostrazioni, pratiche artistiche, sguardi incarnati, Mimesis 2021
4. Materials available in the Moodle section of the course