00045 - Cultural Anthropology

Academic Year 2011/2012

  • Docente: Bruno Riccio
  • Credits: 5
  • SSD: M-DEA/01
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in EXPERT IN SOCIAL AND CULTURAL EDUCATION (cod. 0995)

Course contents

The course is subdivided into two parts. The first introductory part will focus on the definition and history of the anthropological studies. We will take into account the transformation of concepts such as culture and ethnicity together with the main theoretical and methodological problems faced by the discipline. The second part aims at introducung various anthropologicl fields, ranging from urban to development anthropology, from gender to migration studies. Relying on empirical researches on the "second generation", we will focus on the anthropological study of multiculturalism and citizenship.

Readings/Bibliography

Signorelli, A. Antropologia culturale, Milano: McGraw-Hill, seconda edizione, 2011 (esclusi cap 2 e 7)

Guerzoni, G., Riccio, B. (a cura di) Giovani in cerca di cittadinanza. I figli dell'immigrazione tra scuola e associazionismo, Rimini: Guaraldi, 2009

Teaching methods

Lectures, discussions and work in groups

Assessment methods

Written exam

Teaching tools

Overhead projector, board

Office hours

See the website of Bruno Riccio