Learning outcomes

Knowledge and capacity to understand
At the end of the course, the student should:
- have a basic knowledge of the main stages of socio-cultural anthropological thought since 1850;
- have a basic knowledge of the main themes and methods developed in anthropology over the same period;
- have a knowledge of the main ethnic stereotypes regarding Roma populations developed by modern philosophical thinking.

Knowledge and capacity to apply understanding
At the end of the course, the student should be able to:
- place anthropological texts and reflections within the history of anthropology;
- identify anthropological-cultural materials and reflections in a philosophical text.
Independent judgement
At the end of the course, the students will have acquired:
- the capacity to critically analyze an anthropological text;
- the capacity to critically interpret a philosophical text that uses anthropological-cultural themes.
Communication skills
At the end of the course, the students should be able to:
• consciously use specific terms relating to anthropological-cultural themes;
• precisely explain the differences and similarities between the various anthropological theories;
• speak precisely about the theme of cultural alterity.
Capacity to learn
At the end of the course, the students should be able to:
- identify and analyze the way in which the theme of cultural diversity is dealt with in the principal modern philosophical theories;
- find the necessary sources to develop an interdisciplinary cultural anthropology and philosophy analysis modality.

Program

1. History of contemporary anthropology:
- The history of contemporary anthropology as a moment in the history of alterity;
- Progress and degeneration in nineteenth-century pre-evolutionary anthropology;
- Evolutionary anthropology;
- Diffusionism;
- French ethno-sociology;
- American cultural anthropology;
- Malinowski and the ethnographic method;
- Structural-functionalism;
- Structuralism;
- Interpretive and dialogical anthropology.

2. The influx of Roma presences in Europe in the writings of some modern and contemporary philosophers and thinkers (from Luther, Agrippa, Montaigne, Thomasius, Voltaire, Diderot, Mallet, Kant, Herder, Kraus, Schopenhauer, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Husserl, de Unamuno, Spengler, Gramsci, Benjamin, Adorno, Jankélevitch, Canetti, de Martino, de Certeau, Deleuze e Guattari, Derrida, Tugendhat, Agamben, Žižek) , with an analysis of the emblematic case of Adam Smith.

Examination Methods

Learning levels will be assessed by an oral test. Students must be able to demonstrate:
- to have understood the relevant elements on which the main anthropological theories are based;
- to be able to express their own reasoning in a precise manner, identifying and selecting the essential elements;
- to be able to critically analyze the ideas of some modern and contemporary philosophers in their reading-matter on Roma presences in Europe.

Attending students: the exam will focus on the notes and on part of the texts shown in the programme, which the teacher will point out during the lessons.
Non-attending students: the exam will focus on the texts shown.
NB: Attending students are those who attend at least 70% of the lesson hours (signatures will be take