20731 - Demoethnoanthropological Subjects

Learning outcomes

At the end of the teaching, the student will acquire the knowledge and ability to understand, regarding the cultural ecosystem of women and the birth event, the specific issues of a multiethnic society.

Course contents

The course aims to provide the student with central concepts for anthropological analysis of cultural plurality in professional nursing and midwifery contexts. In particular, it will put under critical lens the cultural notions of body/bodyhood, the social construction of health and illness, and the relationship between nursing/obstetric care and migratory experiences of foreign users.

First, the course offers introductory tools for anthropological understanding of the cultural construction of notions of body, person and motherhood. Through ethnographic literature, different cultural models of reproductive health will be presented in comparative perspective.

Second, the course addresses cultural plurality in the birth event by providing keys to critical reflection on midwifery knowledge and practices. Through research cases, interactions between midwives and migrant women in maternal and child health services will be examined, identifying critical issues and resources for the development of multicultural competencies.

Readings/Bibliography

Required texts

Tarabusi F. (2017), Quando nasce una madre. Cura, servizi e maternità nelle esperienze delle donne migranti: un approccio etnografico, AG-About Gender. Rivista Internazionale di Studi sul Genere, Vol. 6 n. 12, pp. 240-84.

Marchetti M. (2019), Operare nello scarto. Un contributo antropologico alla realizzazione di itinerari di inclusione socio-sanitaria con richiedenti asilo nigeriane, L’Uomo, vol. IX, n. 2, pp. 41-60.

Reading texts

Capelli Irene, Concetti globali per categorie socialmente impreviste. Le politiche di «salute sessuale e riproduttiva» rivolte alle madri non sposate in Marocco, EtnoAntropologia, 7 (1), 2019, pp. 19-36.

Cozzi Donatella, Legami in diaspora: madri, figli e genere nelle famiglie transnazionali. Alcune riflessioni sulla migrazione delle donne rumene in Italia, EtnoAntropologia, 7 (1), 2019, pp.37-61

Gallotti Cecilia (2009), Le Mutilazioni Genitali Femminili come posta in gioco nei processi di cambiamento culturale. Migranti nigeriane e servizi socio sanitari in Emilia-Romagna, in: D. Carrillo e N. Pasini (a cura di), Migrazioni Generi Famiglie. Pratiche di escissione e dinamiche di cambiamento in alcuni contesti regionali, Milano, Franco Angeli-Fondazione Ismu, pp. 185-265.

Greco Milena, Percorsi di salute e maternità fra immigrate filippine e ucraine. Reti, possibilità e barriere, EtnoAntropologia, 7 (1) 2019, pp. 87-105

Mattalucci Claudia, Riannodare le fila del tempo. L’attesa, la perdita e il lutto, EtnoAntropologia, 7 (1) 2019.

Quagliariello Chiara, Generazione C: gravidanza e parto ai tempi della pandemia, Supplemento n.9, Illuminazioni», n. 53, luglio-settembre 2020, pp. 147-163.

Quagliariello Chiara, Genere, migrazioni e nascite de-territorializzate. Uno studio del parto a Lampedusa, Erreffe. La ricerca folklorica, 75, 2020, pp. 29-42.

Quattrocchi Patrizia, Violenza ostetrica. Le potenzialità politico-formative di un concetto innovativo, EtnoAntropologia, 7 (1) 2019, pp.125.147.

Teaching methods

Lectures, group discussion, case analysis.

Assessment methods

The exam is oral.

Among the criteria used to assess the preparation of students, the following are particularly highlighted: a) the ability to understand nursing and midwifery care processes related to health issues and the functioning of health and social systems and with particular reference to cultural diversity; b) the ability to accurately use anthropological language; c) the ability to decline theories and tools proper to anthropology and ethnography to critically read contexts, issues and practices inherent to one's specific professional field.

Teaching tools

Slides available on Virtuale, bibliographic materials, case studies.

Office hours

See the website of Cecilia Gallotti