Learning outcomes

To provide a basic introductory knowledge of general anthropology in terms of content, the main debates in the course of the history of the discipline, the methods and ethical questions.

Program

Contents Course: As an introduction to anthropological knowledge, the main threads of the history of the discipline will be analysed, in particular the development of schools in Great Britain, France, Germany and the United States. The development of anthropological thought will be interpreted within the wider topic of alterity beginning with a case study on the “invention” of gypsies. One part of the course will deal with anthropology of history and students will be assisted in reading and personally analysing specific works on some areas of the discipline.

Texts:

Compulsory texts

F. Barth et alii, Storie dell’Antropologia, SEID, Firenze, 2010.
L. Piasere, La stirpe di Cus. Costruzioni e storie di un’alterità, CISU, Roma, 2011. Eccetto i capitoli 6 e 7.

One of the following:

C. Geertz, Opere e vite. L’antropologo come autore, Il Mulino (qualsiasi edizione).
E. S. Tiberini, La vita nelle mani. Arte e società in Haida Gwaii, CISU, Roma, 2003.
A. Lutri ed altri (a cura di), “Umano, troppo umano”. Riflessioni sull’opposizione natura/cultura in antropologia, SEID, Firenze, 2009.
L. Guadagnucci, Parole sporche. Clandestini, nomadi, albanesi: il razzismo nei media e dentro di noi, Altreconomia, Milano, 2010.

Note
Those student who have to take from 3 cfu will only need to study:
F. Barth et alii, Storie dell’Antropologia, SEID, Firenze, 2010.

Didactic Methods: Lectures, discussion.

Examination Methods