Learning outcomes

Knowledge and capacity to understand
At the end of the course, the student should:
- have a basic knowledge of the fundamentals of socio-cultural anthropology;
- have a basic knowledge of the themes and main methods;
- have a basic knowledge of the main anthropological thoughts about the globalization phenomenon;
- have a basic knowledge of the fundamental principles that anthropological knowledge can bring to the study of emergency governance and especially of contemporary migrations.

Knowledge and capacity to apply understanding
At the end of the course, the student should be able to:
- propose anthropological reflections in terms of globalization phenomena;
- interpret a state of crisis, particularly in relation to migrations, with an anthropological-cultural angle;
- apply the method of cultural relativism.
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Independent judgment
At the end of the course, the students will have acquired:
- the capacity to critically analyze situations in which there is a considerable presence of culturally diverse people;
- the capacity to critically interpret behaviours based on diverse or opposing cosmologies.

Communication skills
At the end of the course, the students should be able to:
• consciously use specific terms relating to anthropological-cultural themes;
• speak precisely about the theme of cultural alterity;
• consciously use specific anthropological-cultural terms relating to migratory themes.

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 phenomena linked to globalization;
- find the necessary sources to develop an interdisciplinary cultural anthropology and political-juridical study analysis modality on crisis states.

Program

1. Outlines of general anthropology:
- What the anthropological perspective is;
- The anthropological concept of culture and cultural relativism;
- Ethnographic research;
- The concept of cosmology or vision of the world: cultural symbols and metaphors;
- Relatedness systems: comparisons between European and non-European societies;
- Matrimonial and family structures: comparisons between European and non-European societies;
- Anthropology of inequalities: the cultural construction of genus, class, caste, "race", ethnicity, nationalism;
- Cultural imperialism and cultural hybridization;
- The debate on human rights and cultural diversity;

2. Anthropology of migrations:
- Migration cultures;
- Transit migrations;
- Concepts of "frontier" and "boundaries" in anthropology;
- Diasporas, refugees, asylum seekers and asylum policies;
- Anthropology of work and migrations;
- Anthropology of religion and migrations;
- Multi-culturalism policies;
- Racism, cultural integralism and xenophobia;
- Return migrations and co-development practices.

Requirements

- basic knowledge of contemporary history;
- basic knowledge of political geography.

Teaching methods
Lectures with inter-active exchanges with the students.

Examination Methods

Learning levels will be assessed by an oral test. Students must be able to demonstrate:
- to have understood the basic elements of socio-cultural anthropology;
- to know the specific concepts of anthropology of migrations;
- to be able to express their own reasoning in a precise manner, identifying and selecting the essential elements.
A maximum score of up to 15/30 will be awarded for each of the books to be studied.
Examination methods will be the same for both attending and non-attending students.

Teaching materials e documents

•   programma e testi consigliati (engl)   (octet-stream, it, 18 KB, 06/10/17)
•   programma e testi consigliati (ita)   (octet-stream, it, 17 KB, 06/10/17)