93595 - ANTROPOLOGIA POLITICA E DELLA COMUNICAZIONE

Academic Year 2023/2024

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Ravenna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Mediterranean Societies and Cultures: Institutions, Security, Environment (cod. 5696)

Learning outcomes

The course aims to present the basic theoretical concepts useful for studying and analyzing the different forms that power assumes in human social organizations and the ways in which it manifests itself and is consolidated thanks to different communication tools, in addition to the consequences that this causes in terms of stratification, discrimination, hierarchies. The course aims to present the classical ethnographic cases of literature to strengthen a broad capacity to recognize the historical character of the processes of construction of power and the ideological character of the representations that legitimize it, starting from different conditions of social life. At the end of the course the student acquires the ability to identify and theoretically frame the dynamics that run through societies in terms of competition for power and legitimate (or not) use of force, control of communication and orientation of consciences and construction of consensus. and legitimation of political structures.

Course contents

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Readings/Bibliography

A. Dal Lago, M. Traversari, A cosa servono le scienze sociali, 2023, Ronzani Editore (obbligatorio)

U.Fabietti, Materia Sacra, R. Cortina Editore, Milano, 2015 (Obbligatorio)

M. Traversari, Antropologia dell'etnonazionalismo nei Paesi Baschi, 2021, Ledizioni, Milano

AA.VV, Epistemologie, Milano 2023, Mimesis

A. Dal Lago, Sangue nell'ottagono, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2022

Chapoutout, Le leggi del sangue, Einaudi, 2022

R.Guolo, Una salvezza impossibile, Alfred Metraux, tra antropologia e vita,Meltemi, 2023, Milano

Teaching methods

Frontal lesson

Assessment methods

Oral examination

Office hours

See the website of Marco Traversari