26380 - Landscape, an anthropological approach

Learning outcomes

This course is aimed at promoting an awareness of the organization of space within a culturally appropriate dimension, seen as human expression, inseparable from the symbolic construction of any social formation.
It also intends to present an interpretation, from a historical perspective, emphasising the epoch-making passage from a traditional culture, static and enclosed, based on the community and environmental awareness to the advent of modernity and up to the the present day culture which is liquid and simultaneous.

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Course contents

The period of time we are going through seems to be  charaterized by a plural logic. There is a broad range of languages and expressions to express the world, cultures that are strictly connected, as such as open windows looking at the world, images that are simultaneously visualized on distant places (and non-places). This course intends to offer, as it follows,  some stimulations regarding different points of views and thematics on the antropological landscapes, they reflect this trand, full of contaminations and based on uncertainty, between the conflicting dissonance and the coexistence of different cognitive and expressive styles:

- the landscape as seen like a theatre with its status and roles, the stage and the backstage with actors and an active public, the theatre of nature and the theatre of history,, from the transposition of the cosmic order up to the reflection of the human kind; the civilization of Places in the central Italy with its particular respect to the sharecropping culture: structural aspects and material culture, the family seen as a productive unity, the symbolic universe, times and places tied up sacramentally

Readings/Bibliography

F.La Cecla, Mente locale. Per un antropologia dell'abitare , Eleuthera, Milano 1993

M.Augé, Non luoghi. Introduzione ad una antropologia della surmodernità, Eleuthera, Milano 1993

M.Ilardi, Il tramonto dei non luoghi. Fronti e frontiere dello spazio metropolitano, Meltemi, Roma 2007

E.Turri, Il paesaggio come teatro , Marsilio, Venezia 1998

L.Caravaggi, Paesaggi di paesaggi, Meltemi, Roma 2002

M.Jacob, Paesaggio e tempo, Meltemi, Roma 2009

M.Jacob, Il Paesaggio, il Mulino, Bologna 2009

I.Chambers, Paesaggi migratori.Cultura e identità nell'epoca postcoloniale, Meltemi, Roma 2003

R. de Rubertis, La città mutante. Indizi di evoluzionismo in architettura, FrancoAngeli, Milano 2008

M.Canevacci, R.De Angelis, F.Mazzi (a cura di), Culture del conflitto. Giovani Metropoli Comunicazione, Costa & Nolan, Genova 1995

U.Hanners, Esplorare la città. Antropologia della vita urbana, il Mulino, Bologna 1992

A.Mela, Sociologia delle città, Carocci, Roma 2002

L.Davico, A.Mela, L.Staricco, Città sostenibili.Una prospettiva sociologica, Carocci, Roma 2009

Z.Bauman, Modernità liquida, Laterza, Bari-Roma, 2003

Z.Bauman, Voglia di comunità, Laterza, Bari-Roma, 2003

Z.Bauman, Dentro la globalizzazione. Le conseguenze sulle persone, Laterza, Bari-Roma, 2006

M.Maffessoli, Del nomadismo.Per una sociologia dell'erranza, Franco Angeli, Milano 2000

H.Popitz, Verso una società artificiale, Editori Riuniti, Roma 1996

M.McLuhan, Gli strumenti del comunicare, il Saggiatore, Milano 1967

G.Sartori, Homo videns, Laterza, Bari-Roma 2004

J.D.Bolter, R.Grusin, Remediation. Competizione e integrazione tra media vecchi e nuovi, Guerini, Milano 2002

M.Castells, La nascita della società in rete, Bocconi Egea, Milano 2002

M.Castells, La città delle reti, Marsilio, Venezia 2004

M.Gerosa, Second life, Meltemi, Roma 2007

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