ETHNOLOGY
ETNOLOGIA
| A.Y. | Credits |
|---|---|
| 2015/2016 | 9 |
| Lecturer | Office hours for students | |
|---|---|---|
| Francesca Declich |
Assigned to the Degree Course
| Date | Time | Classroom / Location |
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Learning Objectives
The course aims at bringing students to a basic understanding of the main anthropological issues, including the approaches used by the different anthropological schools, the British Social Anthropology, French structuralism, cultural anthropology and cultural and North American school of personality. Issues of cultural relativism, ethnicity and race will be addressed.
Program
The course will be devoted to introduce cultural anthropology, ethnology and social anthropology. Following an introduction of theoretical basic principles of anthropology, research methods and characteristics of field work, the course will include specialized seminars different each year.
Bridging Courses
There are no prerequisites. It is important to know that training in this subject enables a broad vision about the diverse societies and the diversity of cultures in the world.
Learning Achievements (Dublin Descriptors)
- Basic knowledge in the field of cultural anthropology and ethnology (concepts, definitions, models, theories, history of concepts);
- Basic theoretical knowledge about the most debated issues in anthropology (functionalism, structuralism, culturalism, cultural materialism, the Marxist approach);
- Basic skills to read and understand correctly the basic meanings of manuals and ethnographic monographs;
- Basic skills to apply anthropological knowledge of an ethnographic case.
Teaching Material
The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it
Supporting Activities
Series of seminars are planned every years: "Seminar of Ethnology and Anthropology in honor of Margaret Mead and Elizabeth Colson" or "Seminars in Anthropology and History of Africa." The seminars involve presentation of research carried out by researchers and professors from other universities. Students are strongly encouraged to parteciapare.
Teaching, Attendance, Course Books and Assessment
- Teaching
Direct lessons and seminars. Those who attend classes can write assigned papers.
- Attendance
Those who attend at least 75% of the classes will study a book less, with the exception of textbooks. The attendance is verified through attendance signatures.
- Course books
Per tutti il manuale:
1) Richard Robbins, 2014, Antropologia Culturale, Bologna: UTET.Per gli studenti Scienze Politiche:
2) Ugo Fabietti, Storia dell’antropologia, Zanichelli, Bologna.
3) Laetitia Atlani-Duault, 2015, Per il bene degli altri. Antropologia dell'aiuto umanitario, Liguori Editori, Napoli.
4) Declich Francesca, 2003, I Bantu della Somalia, Franco Angeli, Milano5) Vandana Shiva, Terra madre. Sopravvivere allo sviluppo
oppure
Stefano Liberti, Land Grabbing, Minimumfax.
6) Declich Francesca, 2012, Il mestiere dell’antropologo, Carocci, Roma
Per gli studenti di Scienze Umanistiche
2) Ugo Fabietti, Storia dell’antropologia, Zanichelli, Bologna.
3) Vanessa Maher, Questioni di Etnicità, Rosenberg and Sellier.oppure
Amselle J. L.; M'Bokolo E., 2008, L’invenzione dell’etnia, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino.
4) Vandana Shiva, Terra madre. Sopravvivere allo sviluppo, Novara: UTET (collana frontiere)oppure
Stefano Liberti, Land Grabbing, Minimumfax.
Lettura leggera consigliata agli studenti di tutte le scuole:Manuel Scorza, 2009, Rulli di tamburo per rancas, Feltrinelli, Milano
Additional Information for Non-Attending Students
- Course books
Per tutti il manuale:
1) Richard Robbins, 2014, Antropologia Culturale, Bologna: UTET.Per gli studenti Scienze Politiche:
2) Ugo Fabietti, Storia dell’antropologia, Zanichelli, Bologna.
3) Laetitia Atlani-Duault, 2015, Per il bene degli altri. Antropologia dell'aiuto umanitario, Liguori Editori, Napoli.
4) Declich Francesca, 2003, I Bantu della Somalia, Franco Angeli, Milano5) Vandana Shiva, Terra madre. Sopravvivere allo sviluppo
oppure
Stefano Liberti, Land Grabbing, Minimumfax.
6) Declich Francesca, 2012, Il mestiere dell’antropologo, Carocci, Roma
Per gli studenti di Scienze Umanistiche
2) Ugo Fabietti, Storia dell’antropologia, Zanichelli, Bologna.
3) Vanessa Maher, Questioni di Etnicità, Rosenberg and Sellier.oppure
Amselle J. L.; M'Bokolo E., 2008, L’invenzione dell’etnia, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino.
4) Vandana Shiva, Terra madre. Sopravvivere allo sviluppo, Novara: UTET (collana frontiere)oppure
Stefano Liberti, Land Grabbing, Minimumfax.
Lettura leggera consigliata agli studenti di tutte le scuole:Manuel Scorza, 2009, Rulli di tamburo per rancas, Feltrinelli, Milano
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