- Docente: Bruno Riccio
- Credits: 6
- SSD: M-DEA/01
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Cesena
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Psychological sciences and techniques (cod. 8774)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course the students will know the main
theoretical and methodological approaches in cultural anthropology; the
evolution of concepts such as culture, ethnicity, ethnocentrism,
racism; and, finally, how to use some theoretical perspectives in
the analysis of social processes such as migration, exclusion and social suffering
Course contents
The course will take place during the first semester (from October
to November 2017) at the Cesena Campus of the Department of Psychology (address: p.zza A. Moro, 90). The course 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. We will discuss
the relativist critique of human rights and its limitations, the
evolution of ethnographic research and the different theoretical
paradigms characterising the anthropological thought. In the second part, relying on empirical examples, we will also
focus on the study of multicultural societies, citizenship and transnational
mobility.
Readings/Bibliography
- Dei, F. Antropologia culturale, Il Mulino, Bologna 2016
- Baumann, G. L'Enigma Multiculturale, Il Mulino, Bologna 2017
- One volume among the following edited books:
Guerzoni, G., Riccio, B. (eds.) Giovani in cerca di cittadinanza, Guaraldi, Rimini 2009
Riccio, B. (ed.) Mobilità. Incursioni etnografiche, Mondadori, Milano 2019
Teaching methods
Lectures, workshops, visual projection + discussion
Assessment methods
The written exam last 2 hours when the students have to answer to
three open ended questions within a limited space (one page per
question). Books and chapters cannot be consulted during the exam.
The aim of the exam is to asses the understanding and assimilation of the main
concepts introduced during lectures and discussed in the readings, together with an evaluation of the logical
consequentiality with which they are treated.
Teaching tools
Some of the didactic material will be available to students on IOL.
Office hours
See the website of Bruno Riccio
SDGs
This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.