Unit CULTURAL AND SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY
- Course
- Cultural heritage
- Study-unit Code
- A000117
- Curriculum
- Antropologia
- Teacher
- Pietro Meloni
- Teachers
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- Pietro Meloni
- Hours
- 36 ore - Pietro Meloni
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2018
- Offered
- 2020/21
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline relative ai beni storico-archeologici e artistici, archivistici e librari, demoetnoantropologici e ambientali
- Academic discipline
- M-DEA/01
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The course is divided into two parts.
In the first part of the course, we will introduce the main themes of social and cultural anthropology.
In the second part, themes related on anthropology of heritage and European ethnology will be illustrated.
Will try to reflect on issues such as culture, society, social class, identity, cultural heritage, material culture. - Reference texts
- PARTE GENERALE
Un libro a scelta tra:
- Ciabarri Luca (a cura di), 2018. Cultura materiale. Oggetti, immaginari, desideri in viaggio tra mondi. Milano: Raffaello Cortina. (l’introduzione più 5 saggi a scelta).
OPPURE
- Allovio Stefano, Ciabarri Luca, Mangiameli Gaetano. 2018. Antropologia culturale. I temi fondamentali. Milano: Raffaello Cortina. (introduzione più i saggi di: Appadurai, Ingold, Fabietti, Olivier de Sardan, Descola, Herzfeld, Godelier, Mintz, Amselle).
PARTE MONOGRAFICA
- Meloni Pietro, 2013. Il tempo rievocato. Antropologia del patrimonio e cultura di massa in Toscana. Milano: Mimesis. - Educational objectives
- The main knowledge that students will acquire will be:
- Critical analysis of social and cultural phenomena
- The “view from afar” and the “view from near”
- Methodologies of anthropological research
- Knowledge of the cultural and political uses of heritage, time and identities
The main skills that allow to apply the acquired knowledge will be:
- Ability to deconstruct common sense
- ability in data analysis and reporting research results
- ethnographic writing - Prerequisites
- no
- Teaching methods
- The course is organized as follows:
- Frontal lesson
- Discussion groups
- Meetings with scholars - Learning verification modality
- oral verification
- Extended program
- The course is divided into two parts.
In the first part of the course, we will introduce the main themes of social and cultural anthropology.
Specifically we will address the following topics:
- Fieldwork in social and cultural anthropology
- The main theories
- The common sense
- The relationship between nature and culture
- The reflexive anthropology
- The “view from afar” and the “view from near”
In the second part, themes related on anthropology of heritage European ethnology will be illustrated.
Specifically we will address the following topics:
- The Anthropology at home
- European Ethnology
- Cultural intimacy
- Anthropology and Nostalgia
- Ecomuseums
- Folklore studies
- Heritage studies