00045 - Cultural Anthropology

Academic Year 2009/2010

  • Docente: Bruno Riccio
  • Credits: 5
  • SSD: M-DEA/01
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in EXPERT IN SOCIAL AND CULTURAL EDUCATION (cod. 0995)

Course contents


The course is subdivided into two parts. The first introductory part 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. The second part aims at introducung various fields of anthropological application such as migration, aid and development, the different approaches to multiculturalism and the multiple relations between the local and the global.

Readings/Bibliography


Augé, M., Colleyn, J-P L'antropologia del mondo contemporaneo, Elèuthera, Milano 2006

Riccio, B., Villano, P. "Cultura: da essenza a processo" in Villano, P., Riccio, B. , Culture e mediazioni, Bologna: Il Mulino 2008

Riccio, B. Politiche, associazioni e interazioni urbane, Rimini: Guaraldi, 2008

and one between the following two:

Riccio, B. (a cura di) Migrazioni transnazionali dall'Africa, Torino: UTET 2008

Riccio, B. "Toubab" e "vu cumprà". Transnazionalità e rappresentazioni nelle migrazioni senegalesi in Italia, Padova: CLEUP, 2007

Teaching methods

Lectures, discussions and work in groups

Assessment methods

Written exam

Teaching tools

Overhead projector, board

Office hours

See the website of Bruno Riccio