Teacher
|
MALTESE STEFANO
(syllabus)
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 outline the debate on decolonization in the framework of contemporary heritage-making processes.
(reference books)
1. Dei, F., 2016, Antropologia culturale, seconda edizione, il Mulino 2. Lattanzi V., 2021, Musei e antropologia. Storia, esperienze, prospettive, Carocci 3. Guermandi, M.P., 2021, Decolonizzare il patrimonio. L'Europa, L'Italia e il passato che non passa, Castelvecchi 4. Materials made available in the Moodle page of the course
|