- Docente: Marco Traversari
- Credits: 12
- SSD: M-DEA/01
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Ravenna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Mediterranean Societies and Cultures: Institutions, Security, Environment (cod. 5696)
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from Feb 06, 2023 to Apr 27, 2023
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
This year's course will deal with the relationship between violence and the construction of the sacred. The theme will be addressed through the analysis of some concepts elaborated by the anthropology of religion and politics. In particular we will work on the themes of sacrifice and rituality as founding structures of the concept of community. Furthermore, some aspects of the media spectacularization of some social practices based on the physical clash between bodies and social groups will be examined, from the phenomenon of supporters to mixed martial arts as an expression of the construction of the political subjectivity of social actors
Readings/Bibliography
U.Fabietti, Materia Sacra, R. Cortina, Milano, 2015
A. Dal Lago, Sangue nell'ottagono, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2022
U. Fabietti, Identità etnica, Carocci Editore, Roma, 2015
E.Durkheim, Le forme elementari della vita religiosa, Morcelliana,Brescia, 2020
Teaching methods
Frontal lesson
Assessment methods
Oral examination
Office hours
See the website of Marco Traversari