Teaching code

4S012293

Teacher

Stefania Pontrandolfo

Coordinator

Stefania Pontrandolfo

Credits

6

Also offered in courses:

• Epistemology and Hermeneutics of Ethnographic Research of the course Master's degree in Philosophy

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

M-DEA/01 - DEMOLOGY, ETHNOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY

Period

Sem. 1B dal Nov 11, 2024 al Dec 21, 2024.

Courses Single

Authorized

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars 0

Learning objectives

The educational objectives of the course are: Knowledge and understanding: at the end of the course the student will have to know the epistemological and hermeneutic bases of anthropological field research; know the main cosmological models as reconstructed by ethnographic investigations. Ability to apply knowledge and understanding: at the end of the course the student will be able to apply the ethnographic method in different cultural contexts; consciously apply analogical reasoning in the cultural context; knowing how to identify and analyze culturally oriented cosmological constructions; knowing how to recognize and cosmologically place a philosophical theory. Judgment autonomy: at the end of the course the students will have acquired the ability to critically analyze an anthropological text regarding its ethnographic bases; ability to anthropologically analyze a vision of the world (or cosmology); ability to critically analyze the cosmological foundations of a philosophical theory. Communication skills: at the end of the course the students will have to know how to consciously use the specific vocabulary relating to the themes of anthropological ethnography; be able to precisely communicate differences and similarities between various cosmological theories and practices.

Prerequisites and basic notions

No special prerequisites required

Program

The course content regards:
- Ethnography between epistemology and hermeneutics;
- The problem of experiments in the history of anthropology;
- Ethnography as an experiment of experience;
- The cognitive bases of analogy and analogies in anthropology;
- Fuzziness: resonance, empathy and serendipity in ethnography;
- Ethnography as practice of theory: classic and recent ethnographic fieldwork

Bibliography

Didactic methods

Lectures in presence in which numerous ethnographic examples will be presented to support the teaching/learning of the basic concepts; intervention of invited ethnographers.
Texts to study:
Piasere, L. 2002, L'etnografo imperfetto. Esperienza e cognizione in antropologia, Roma-Bari, Laterza (to be studied the whole book except chapter 7)
Another text to be agreed with the teacher.

Learning assessment procedures

Learning levels will be assessed by an oral exam.
The assessment method will be NO different for attending and non-attending students.

Evaluation criteria

Students must be able to demonstrate:
- to have understood the relevant underlying elements of epistemology and ethnographic hermeneutics;
- to have understood the relevant elements concerning the study of cosmologies as collections with ethnographic methods;
- 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 relationship between philosophical thought and the cosmological construction on which it is based.

Criteria for the composition of the final grade

The results of the examination will be given on a scale of thirty.

Exam language

Italiano

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