Unit Socio-cultural Anthropology
- Course
- Social service
- Study-unit Code
- 10990109
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Fiorella Giacalone
- Teachers
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- Fiorella Giacalone
- Hours
- 63 ore - Fiorella Giacalone
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2016
- Offered
- 2018/19
- Learning activities
- Base
- Area
- Discipline storico-antropologiche-filosofico-pedagogiche
- Sector
- M-DEA/01
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- International students and Erasmus are invited to attend the course. Readings are also available in English; oral exams can be supported in English, French and Spanish.
- Contents
- We will be analyzed methods and techniques of cultural anthropology in its historical-critical evolution. The second part of the course will focus on the problematic nature and dynamics of integration of the second generation.
- Reference texts
- F.Giacalone (a cura di) Il tempo e la complessità. Teorie e metodi dell’antropologia culturale, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2017
Falteri-Giacalone (a cura di), Migranti involontari, Perugia, Morlacchi, 2011
R.Salih, Musulmane rivelate, Roma, Carocci, 2008.
For those who do not attend, in addition, either:
U.Hannerz, La diversità culturale, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2001 - Educational objectives
- The course aims to provide students with:
- The theoretical and methodological principles of anthropology,
- The size and ethnographic field research,
- A reflection on the dynamics of globalization and the cultural complexity
- A reflection on the dynamics of immigration and the problems relating to the second generation.
The main skill will be to discuss the cultural dynamics and process of power-point for those who decide to work on the laboratory concerning the second generation of immigrants. - Prerequisites
- The course does not have, but it should be that students have already passed the exams in sociology and history .
- Teaching methods
- The course consists of: - lectures, - seminar with students attending classes with power-point presentation with a slide number not exceeding 20 per student.
- Other information
- The teacher is available to give lectures and materials for anyone who wants to deepen the topics covered. Carrying out a term paper it is evaluated for the exam.
- Learning verification modality
- The exam includes an oral and exposure in power-point texts analyzed in the working groups (participation is voluntary and not mandatory, because it is related to the frequency).
The oral examination consists of a discussion of about 15-20 minutes, aimed at ascertaining the level of knowledge and understanding reached by the student on the theoretical and methodological implications mentioned in the program. The oral exam will also test the communication skills of the student with properties of language and autonomous organization of the exposure on the same topics in theoretical content. - Extended program
- The first module will be of theoretical and methodological perspective. Will be examined some key concepts of social and cultural: inculturation, acculturation, ethnocentrism, individual and society, social structures and forms of power, forms settlement, city and social institutions. It will be analyzed the specific size of ethnographic research. We will briefly discuss some anthropological theories: evolutionism, the socio-French ethnography, functionalism, culture and personality, De Martino, structuralism, the 'interpretive anthropology, the turning post-colonial. Further reflection will focus on anthropology and urban medical anthropology.
The second part of the course will focus on migration dynamics and the issues and dynamics of integration of the second generation, with particular reference to Muslim youth.
On these fields students are involved in a laboratory for examining specific issues, on which to perform group work, with the introduction of power-point.