- Docente: Davide Domenici
- Credits: 10
- SSD: M-DEA/01
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Anthropological Sciences (cod. 0344)
Course contents
The Native Mesoamerican Civilizations course is aimed to offer informations useful to analyze the historical, social and cultural reality of Native Mesoamerican civilization. This requires analytical tools spanning in the fields of archaeology, ethnohistory and ethnography in order to investigate elements of continuity and discontinuity between the pre-colonial past and the modern and contemporary eras.
Specifically, the course will deal with the relationship between men and landscape in various Mesoamerican civilizations, with a special focus on ritual forms of interaction and their political meanings. If the study of Pre-Hispanic cases will be mainly based on archaeological data, the analysis of written documents and ethnographic reports will permit the study of the changes occurred in the men-landscape relationship during Colonial and Modern Era.
Course starts on Wednesday, September 30th 2009
Days, Hours and Classroom:
Wednesday, 11-13 hrs, Aula C, via Centotrecento, 18.
Thursday, 11-13 hrs, Aula III, via Zamboni 38.
Friday, 11-13 hrs, Aula III, via Zamboni 38.
Readings/Bibliography
5 credits program:
Domenici Davide, I linguaggi del potere. Arti e propaganda nell'antica Mesoamerica, Jaca Book-Clueb, Milano-Bologna 2005.
Botta Sergio, La religione del Messico antico, Carocci, Roma 2006.
6 credits program:
Domenici Davide, I linguaggi del potere. Arti e propaganda nell'antica Mesoamerica, Jaca Book-Clueb, Milano-Bologna 2005.
Botta Sergio, La religione del Messico antico, Carocci, Roma 2006.
Arnold Philip P., L'occupazione del paesaggio. Aztechi ed Europei nella Valle del Messico, Jaca Book, Milano 2009.
10 credits program:
Domenici Davide, I linguaggi del potere. Arti e propaganda nell'antica Mesoamerica, Jaca Book-Clueb, Milano-Bologna 2005.
Botta Sergio, La religione del Messico antico, Carocci, Roma 2006.
Arnold Philip P., L'occupazione del paesaggio. Aztechi ed Europei nella Valle del Messico, Jaca Book, Milano 2009.
Todorov Tzvetan, La conquista dell'America. Il problema dell'«altro», Einaudi, Torino 1992.
12 credits program:
Domenici Davide, I linguaggi del potere. Arti e propaganda nell'antica Mesoamerica, Jaca Book-Clueb, Milano-Bologna 2005.
Botta Sergio, La religione del Messico antico, Carocci, Roma 2006.
Arnold Philip P., L'occupazione del paesaggio. Aztechi ed Europei nella Valle del Messico, Jaca Book, Milano 2009.
Todorov Tzvetan, La conquista dell'America. Il problema dell'«altro», Einaudi, Torino 1992.
Giraudo Laura, La questione indigena in America Latina, Carocci, Roma 2009.
Teaching methods
The frontal lessons, in which discussion of new findings and publication will be stimulated, will be integrated by discussion sessions and speeches aimed to inform the students about the ongoing field researches.
Assessment methods
The final exam will be an oral one, with questions aimed to verify the student's knowledge of the themes discussed during frontal lessons as well as those treated in the program's texts.
To take the exam, please sign yourself in the list corresponding to the chosen date at: http://66.71.178.156/bacheca/iscrizioni_paleo.asp
Teaching tools
The frontal lessons will be supported by Power Point presentations in order to visualize elements that, due to their "exotic" character, are scarcely known to the students. During the lessons we will use images and data proceeding from the field research project directed by the professor, in order to stimulate students' participation and favour their perception of field research methodologies.
Office hours
See the website of Davide Domenici