Unit CULTURAL AND SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY
- Course
- Cultural heritage
- Study-unit Code
- A000117
- Curriculum
- Antropologia
- Teacher
- Alexander Koensler
- Teachers
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- Alexander Koensler
- Hours
- 36 ore - Alexander Koensler
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2020
- Offered
- 2022/23
- 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
- This year's course focuses on visual anthropology. It therefore offers the tools to analyze visual representations and the contexts in which they are produced: who represents whom and by what means? In the first part, general themes relating to the representation of cultural diversity will be introduced. In the second part he reflects through specific cases on imaginaries, stereotypes and resistances through ethnographic films, documentaries and experimental cinema.
- Reference texts
- Pennacini, Cecilia (2005), Filmare le culture. Un'introduzione all'antropologia visiva. Milano: Carrocci
Canevacci, Massimo (2017 ) Antropologia della comunicazione visuale. Esplorazioni etnografiche attraverso il feticismo metodologico. Roma: Postmedia Books- pp. 63-85 - Educational objectives
- The main knowledge that students will acquire will be:
knowledge of approaches and methods;
knowledge of the relationship between anthropology and forms of governance;
knowledge of tools and techniques for the interpretation of socio-cultural processes - Prerequisites
- n/a
- Teaching methods
- The course is organized as follows:
frontal lessons;
meetings with the authors of the study texts;
discussion groups;
vision of ethnographic audiovisual materials as integration of the frontal lessons - Learning verification modality
- Standard exame
- Extended program
- This year's course focuses on visual anthropology. It therefore offers the tools to analyze visual representations and the contexts in which they are produced: who represents whom and by what means? In the first part, general themes relating to the representation of cultural diversity will be introduced. In the second part he reflects through specific cases on imaginaries, stereotypes and resistances through ethnographic films, documentaries and experimental cinema.