Zelda Alice Franceschi

ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE AMERICAS BACHELOR'S DEGREE

• Indigenous contexts in the Americas, with particular attention to the lowlands of South America

• History of indigenous movements

• Material culture in the Americas, with particular attention to women's weaving and ceramics

• “Indigenous art” in “traditional” American contexts and in contemporary art markets

• Education in indigenous contexts

• Legal anthropology in indigenous contexts of land claims

• Life and works of anthropologists who worked in the American context (e.g. Franz Boas, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Alfred Métraux, Curt Nimuendajú, Pierre Clastres, Erland Nördeskiold, Guido Boggiani)

• Native anthropologies. Contemporary writing by Native American populations

ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH TECHNIQUES BACHELOR'S DEGREE

• Proposed fieldwork (lasting a minimum of 4-6 months) already begun during the course in Ethnographic Research Techniques, which the degree thesis will refine both in terms of fieldwork and bibliographic material

HISTORY OF WOMEN'S ANTHROPOLOGY MASTER'S DEGREE

• Life and works of anthropologists who did not enter the “canonical history” of the discipline

• Ethnographic writing

• Diaries, letters, photographs, field notes. How to reconstruct the history of the discipline through autobiographical materials.

• Anthropology of women and European and non-European feminisms

• The history of women and female anthropologists

ANTHROPOLOGY OF FOOD MASTER'S DEGREE

• Anthropology of food & gender

• Anthropology of food & power

• Anthropology of food & obesity

• Anthropology of food & malnutrition

• Anthropology of food & food transitions

• Anthropology of food & ethnobotanical studies

• The construction and restitution of recipe books in indigenous contexts