66946 - History of Anthropology (1) (A-L)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, students will know the conceptual framework that characterizes the discipline and will be able to understand its different intellectual schools of thought.

Course contents

The course (12 cfu) is composed by two integrated modules that cannot be divided (Cultural Anthropology and History of Anthropology).

The course aims at presenting an introduction to the main concepts and theories that characterize cultural anthropology. Particular attention will be dedicated to the limits and potentialities of different conceptualizations of the concept of culture, to the nature/culture relationship, to the ethnographic method, to the contemporary challenges for anthropological knowledge .

Lectures will begin in November.

Even though attendance is not mandatory, it is strongly suggested.

Readings/Bibliography

Students will have to prepare the following four volumes

For the first module "Cultural Anthropology" (1):

1. Emily A. Schultz e Robert H. Lavenda (2015/2021), Antropologia culturale, Zanichelli, Bologna (Indifferentemente Terza o Quarta edizione italiana). [Ediz. Orig., Cultural Anthropology. A Perspective on the Human Condition, Ninth or tenth edition, 2013/2017, Oxfrod University Press, Oxford].

2. Thomas Hylland Eriksen (2017), Fuori controllo. Un’antropologia del cambiamento accelerato, Einaudi, Torino. [Ediz. Orig., Overheating. An Anthropology of Accelerated Change, 2016, Pluto Press, London].

For the second module "History of Anthropology" (1):

3. Mary Douglas (2014), Purezza e pericolo. Un'analisi dei concetti di contaminazione e tabù. Il Mulino, Bologna. [Ediz. Orig., Purity and danger. An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo, 1966, Routledge, New York].

4. Ugo Fabietti (2011/2020), Storia dell'antropologia, Zanichelli, Bologna (Indifferentemente Terza o Quarta edizione).

Teaching methods

Formal lectures with audio-visual support (when appropriate).

In each lecture, students will be engaged in order to verify the proper understanding of the issues discussed.

Assessment methods

Students will have to answer one question for each of the four volumes indicated above. The specific exam modalities will be indicated soon.

Proper language and the ability to make connections between the books' content will lead to a good/excellent final grade.

Acceptable language and the ability to resume the books' content will lead to a sufficient/fair grade.

The exam is failed if students:

- do not demonstrate to master the "learning outcomes" of the course;

- show insufficient linguistic proficiency and fragmentary knowledge of the books' content;

- do not answer all the exam questions.

Students with special needs are kindly invited to contact the lecturer in order to define together the proper assessment method.

Students can consult Exams dates and register at the following URLhttp://www.unibo.it/Portale/Guida/AlmaEsami.htm

Teaching tools

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Office hours

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