Educational goals
To know in depth the main themes and conceptual apparatus that found the discipline. Acquire skills aimed at encouraging communication between different socio-cultural realities in a perspective of relationship, mediation and identification of shared values. To analyse pluralisms and expressive dynamisms of local / global level. To observe the expressive activities of a context, exposing its political, relational and social functions. To analyze the socio-cultural processes, overcoming the simplifying image that wants a single meaning for each place, a single identity.
Contents
The course offers an overview of cultural anthropology, illustrating its method, theory and languages. The intent is not so much to privilege a history of studies or to propose a traditional thematic exhibition, but to address the subject by focusing on problematic issues and interpretative categories that make cultural anthropology an instrument of fundamental and advanced reflection for the understanding of the complexities of the contemporary world. Main topics: the construction of anthropological knowledge; anthropological positivisms; structure, interpretation, dialogue; changes, conflicts, transformations. Race, racism and migration; the anti-racism of Franz Boas; the "race question" in the UNESCO and Lévi-Strauss documents; post-colonial studies, gender dynamics and structural violence; neo-racism and cultural differences; migrants, medical anthropology; universalism; the family in anthropological studies. Intercultural dynamics in the school: an anthropological look. Migration processes, socio-cultural inclusion and school contexts. Folklore, popular culture, mass culture: themes and problems of an applied anthropology of the contemporary through an ethnography of popular culture.
Bibliographic material
Manuela Tassan, Antropologia per insegnare. Diversità culturale e processi educativi, Bologna, Zanichelli, 2020,
Lia Giancristofaro, Valentina Lapiccirella Zingari, Patrimonio culturale immateriale e società civile, Roma, Aracne, 2020.
Lia Giancristofaro, Religione, famiglia e potere nell'opera di Giovanni Verga, Palermo, Edizioni Pasqualino, 2022.
Alessandra Broccolini, Pietro Clemente, Lia Giancristofaro, Patrimonio in comunicAzione. Nuove sfide per i musei DemoEtnoAntropologici, Palermo, Edizioni Pasqualino, 2021.
Final verification:
Oral and written exam with marks out of 30, aimed at verifying the ability to expose the topics presented during the course with clarity and autonomy of judgment.
PAY ATTENTION: the students of Letters Degree for 6 CFU must study only 3 books:
Manuela Tassan, Antropologia per insegnare. Diversità culturale e processi educativi, Bologna, Zanichelli, 2020.
Lia Giancristofaro, Valentina Lapiccirella Zingari, Patrimonio culturale immateriale e società civile, Roma, Aracne, 2020.
Lia Giancristofaro, Religione, famiglia e potere nell'opera di Giovanni Verga, Palermo, Edizioni Pasqualino, 2022.
