00045 - Cultural Anthropology

Academic Year 2012/2013

  • Docente: Ivo Quaranta
  • Credits: 12
  • SSD: M-DEA/01
  • Language: Italian

Learning outcomes

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

Course contents

Lectures begin on the 3rd of October 2012

Lectures timetable:

Tuesday h. 15-17

Thursday h. 17-19

Friday h. 13-15

Room "D",Viale BertiPichat, n.6/2

Course title:

Rethinking the culture concept.

Students who must take the 6 cfu course will refer to Prof. Quaranta's module. Those who must take the 12 cfu course will follow both: Prof. Quaranta's and Prof. Franceschi's modules.


Readings/Bibliography

Students who attend lectures for 6 credits must study the two following texts:
Fabietti U ., "Elementi di antropologia culturale", Milano, Mondadori, 2010 (SECONDA EDIZIONE).

RemottiF.,"Cultura. Dalla complessità all'impoverimento", Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2011.

Those who take the exam without attending lectures, in addition, must also study the following volume:

Matera V. (a cura), “Discorsi sugli uomini. Prospettive antropologiche contemporanee”. Novara, Utet Università, 2008.


Students who take the 12 credits course must also follow the module in History of Anthropology, held by Prof. Zelda Franceschi, and will study the four following texts:


-Fabietti U., "Elementi di antropologia culturale", Milano, Mondadori, 2010 (SECONDA EDIZIONE).

-RemottiF., "Cultura. Dalla complessità all'impoverimento", Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2011.

-Fabietti U. , "Storia dell'antropologia", (TERZA EDIZIONE), Bologna, Zanichelli, 2011.

-One volume among the following:

Favole A.,Oceania: isole di creatività culturale, Bari, Laterza, 2010.

Franceschi Z.A.,Etno-grafie. La scrittura come testimonianza tra i Wichí, Emil, Bologna, 2008.

Natali C.,Sabbia sugli dèi. Pratiche commemorative tra le Tigri tamil (Sri Lanka), Il Segnalibro, Torino, 2006.

Peveri V.,L'albero delle donne. Etnografia nelle piantagioni e cucine d'Etiopia, Emil, Bologna, 2012.


Those who take the 12 credits exam without attending lectures, in addition to the previous four volumes, must also study the following text:

-Matera V.(a cura), “Discorsi sugli uomini. Prospettive antropologiche contemporanee”. Novara, Utet Università, 2008.




Assessment methods

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

Teaching tools

Students are kindly invited to subscribe to the following mailing list in order to receive information about possible variations in lectures timetable and rooms: ivo.quaranta.Antropologia_Culturale

Office hours

See the website of Ivo Quaranta

See the website of Zelda Alice Franceschi