00045 - Cultural Anthropology

Learning outcomes

Students will learn the main themes and conceptual approaches of the discipline. They will also take part in critical discussions concerning the main intellectual schools of thought which have shaped the theoretical methodological paradigms with which to investigate various human realities from a historical and cultural point of view.

Course contents

Students are strongly advised to check the section “avvisi” in the professor’s home page for all information regarding the programme and the exam.

The course is organized into two modules. In the first module, the theoretical approaches and the basic concepts of the discipline will be illustrated, with particular focus on their application in the domain of performance practices. In the second module, classical and contemporary ethnographic case studies and the basic methodological problems will be introduced.

Timetable

Lectures will begin on the 1st February 2017, according to the following timetable:

Wednesday 11-13 aula III, Via Zamboni, 38

Thursday 15-17 aula III, Via Zamboni, 38

Friday 15-17 aula III, Via Zamboni, 38

Readings/Bibliography

THIS IS THE 2016-2017 PROGRAMME, AND REFERS TO THE COURSE THAT WILL TAKE PLACE BETWEEN FEBRUARY AND MAY 2017. BEFORE THE END OF THE COURSE, THIS PROGRAMME WILL BE NOT ACCEPTED.

6 CFU programme (for attending and non-attending students)

1. Fabietti U., Elementi di antropologia culturale, Milano, Mondadori, 2010 (third edition).
2. Natali C., Percorsi di antropologia della danza, Milano, Libreria Cortina, 2009 (available at the Trame bookshop, via Goito 3/c, tel. 051 233333).

12 CFU programme (for attending and non-attending students)

1. Fabietti U., Elementi di antropologia culturale, Milano, Mondadori, 2010 (third edition).
2. Natali C., Percorsi di antropologia della danza, Milano, Libreria Cortina, 2009 (available at the Trame bookshop, via Goito 3/c, tel. 051 233333).
3. Evans-Pritchard E., Stregoneria, oracoli e magia tra gli Azande, Milano, Cortina, 2002.
4. One of the following volumes: Allovio, S., Riti di iniziazione. Antropologi, stoici e finti immortali, Milano, Raffaello Cortina, 2015; Appadurai A., Il futuro come fatto culturale, Milano, Cortina, 2014; Mangiameli G., L’origine plurale. Miti di fondazione kassena, Edizioni Libreria Cortina, 2017; Remotti F., L’ossessione identitaria, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2010.

Teaching methods

Lectures with interactive components and Power Point presentations.

Assessment methods

Students are strongly advised to check the section “avvisi” in the professor’s home page for all information regarding the programme and the exam.

The exam consists in a 3-hour (for 12 cfu) or a 1hr. 45mn. (for 6 cfu) written test. For each volume, there will be a question with open answer.

Students are requested to show good knowledge of the bibliography, critical analytic skills and appropriate linguistic communicative ability.

The mark will be assigned taking into account the following evaluation levels:

30 cum laude: excellent performance showing soundness of knowledge, rich discursive articulation and appropriate expression;

30: very good performance, complete and appropriate knowledge, well articulated and appropriately expressed;

29-27: good performance, more than satisfactory knowledge, well-expressed;

26-24: standard performance, essential knowledge, but not comprehensive and/or not always correctly expressed;

23-21: sufficient performance, general but superficial knowledge, often inappropriately expressed showing confused articulation;

20-18: poor performance, with just acceptable expression and articulation with significant gaps;

<18: Insufficient performance, absent or very incomplete knowledge, lack of orientation in the discipline.

Students can consult exams dates and register at the following URL [http://www.unibo.it/Portale/Guida/AlmaEsami.htm].

Teaching tools

Attending students are kindly invited to subscribe to the following mailing list in order to receive information about possible variations in lecture timetable and rooms: cristiana.natali.Antropologia-culturale.

Office hours

See the website of Cristiana Natali

See the website of Gaetano Mangiameli