Unit CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
- Course
- Primary teacher education
- Study-unit Code
- GP004455
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Daniele Parbuono
- Teachers
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- Daniele Parbuono
- Hours
- 48 ore - Daniele Parbuono
- CFU
- 8
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2022
- Offered
- 2022/23
- Learning activities
- Base
- Area
- Discipline sociologiche e antropologiche
- Academic discipline
- M-DEA/01
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- In the first part of the course, the theoretical foundations and the main concepts of the discipline with brief hints to the history of Anthropology, as well as to classical and contemporary ethnographic cases, will be illustrated. In the second part, attention will be paid to problems and methods of research with particular reference to the anthropology of education and educational contexts. The third part will be dedicated to the group works conceived around the central thematic of “diversity”. In the last lesson, the main topics will be discussed, reflecting about the results of the course. Students will have access to the UniStudium teaching platform and will be able to consult the teaching material, interacting with each other on the topics of the course.
- Reference texts
- - Kottak C.P., Antropologia culturale (III edition), italian edition edited by Laura Bonato, Milano, McGraw-Hill Education, 2022.
- Aime M., Una bella differenza. Alla scoperta della diversità del mondo, Torino, Einaudi, 2009. - Educational objectives
- At the end of the course the students must acquire basic knowledge on the perspectives and methods of Social and Cultural Anthropology with particular reference to educational contexts. They will also learn how to relate them in a complex way with the concept of “diversity”.
- Prerequisites
- No
- Teaching methods
- Lectures with a strong interaction and group works.
- Other information
- No
- Learning verification modality
- Oral examination.
The exam focuses on the following aspects:
· Knowledge and understanding - Ability to apply knowledge and understanding: Summary
· Knowledge and understanding - Ability to apply knowledge and understanding: Detail
· Autonomy of judgment, understood as the ability to produce autonomous judgments, arriving at coherent reflections on social, scientific or ethical issues;
· Communication skills, conceived as the ability to communicate information, ideas, problems and solutions to other interlocutors;
· Learning ability, understood as the necessary skill to advance in studies with a high degree of autonomy - Extended program
- 1. Presentation of the course: didactic calendar; program, textbooks and readings. Introduction to the use of the UniStudium platform. Illustration of the examination methods.
2. Introduction to the anthropological perspective: points of view; looks; relatedness; listening skills; creative management of conflicts; methodologies of the encounter. The “cultural frames” in which we are immersed.
3. Anthropologies: cultural anthropology in the frame of human sciences; the physical anthropology areas of relevance. The construction of “race” concept.
4. Origins of Anthropology: Evolutionism between innovation and Eurocentrism. Evolutionism and the search for constants: the psychic unity of the human race and the unilineal conception of history. Theory of evolutionary stages. Survivals.
5. The first anthropological definition of the “concept of culture”: Edward B. Tylor. Critics to Tylor. The deconstruction of the concept of race as the variants of the human species ordering criterion: the two anthropological schools (United States and Great Britain); the Genetics and progress of Biology.
6. Diversity Workshop. Brainstorming groups and elaboration.
7. Historical particularism and American anthropology: the primacy of diversity and contextualization. The notion of relativity: questions of method and ethics. Franz Boas.
8. Introduction at the Culture and Personality School.
9. (in collaboration with Dr. Federica Lanzi) The Culture and Personality School: transmission and learning. The “basic personality” and “status”.
10. The common belonging to the human species. Readings from M. Aime, “Una bella differenza”. Global cultural flows and hybridizations. The planetary circulation of goods, messages and people. The question of migrations in educational contexts.
11. The English functionalism: Bronislaw Malinowski and ethnography. Participating observation in fieldwork and educational contexts.
12. French Socio-ethnology: Marcel Mauss and the “total man” between biological, psychic and cultural. Structuralism and the research of the universals of human thought: the relationship between differences and similarities; the comparison with cultural models that we do not agree.
13. Anthropology, beliefs and religions. Van Gennep: the “rites of passage” theory.
14. The concept of culture: definitions and etymology. Essentialist conceptions and processual conceptions. Some anthropological definitions of the concept of culture.
15. Transmission and cultural change. How culture is produced, how culture is transmitted. Inculturation and acculturation. Social and cultural hierarchies: the relationship between dominant cultures and subaltern cultures. “Intercultura”. Cultural criticism.
16. The relational notion of “identity”: “us” and “them”. Identity strategies and social organization of difference. Political uses of the concept of “identity”. New forms of separation. Forms of racism. Institutional racisms. Cultural relativism and ethnocentrism. Critical ethnocentrism. Introduction to decentralization.
17. “Biological” and “socio-cultural”: gender, gender and sexuality. Family-families. Contextualization of the family concept.
18. Ethnography; anthropological research methodologies and looks on the world. Ethnography and educational contexts.
19. (in collaboration with Dr. Francesca Pascolini) “Attitudinal and ideological ethnocentrism”. The educational value of decentralization
20. Diversity Workshop: student groups expose their work on the concept of diversity in 15 minutes. Each speech will be followed by 10 minutes of debate moderate and enriched by the teacher.
21. Diversity Workshop: student groups expose their work on the concept of diversity in 15 minutes. Each speech will be followed by 10 minutes of debate moderate and enriched by the teacher.
22. Diversity Workshop: student groups expose their work on the concept of diversity in 15 minutes. Each speech will be followed by 10 minutes of debate moderate and enriched by the teacher.
23. Reconstruction of the path. Thematic lines discussed, common reflections, considerations, conclusions.