Unit ETNOLOGY
- Course
- Political sciences and international relations
- Study-unit Code
- 10006909
- Curriculum
- Relazioni internazionali
- Teacher
- Riccardo Cruzzolin
- Teachers
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- Riccardo Cruzzolin
- Hours
- 63 ore - Riccardo Cruzzolin
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2023
- Offered
- 2025/26
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- M-DEA/01
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- italian
- Contents
- The course is intended to introduce students to the theories and methods of ethnology. They will come initially analyzed some basic concepts such as cultural models, ethnocentrism and inculturation, the relationship between biology and culture. Some authors and the relative currents of history will then be examined of ethnology. In particular, the following will be treated: evolutionism (Tylor, Frazer, Morgan), the functionalism (Malinowski, Radcliffe-Brown, Evans-Pritchard, Douglas), historical particularism and the school of culture and personality (Boas, Benedict, Mead), the French demoethnology (Mauss, Durkheim, Van Gennep, Griaule), Levi-Strauss structuralism, the Manchester School (Gluckman, Epstein, Barth, Turner), De Martino's historicism, dynamist anthropology (Bastide, Balandier), Marxist anthropology (Meillassoux, Godelier, Harris) and the debate between formalists and substantivists, C. Geertz's interpretive anthropology, perspectivism.
- Reference texts
- Fabietti U., Storia dell'antropologia, Bologna, Zanichelli plus two texts of your choice from the following Benedict R., Modelli di cultura, Roma-Bari, Laterza Clifford J., I frutti puri impazziscono, Torino, Bollati Boringhieri De Martino E., La terra del rimorso, Milano, il Saggiatore Douglas, M., Purezza e pericolo, Bologna, Mulino Evans Pritchard E., Stregoneria, oracoli e magia tra gli Azande, Milano, Raffaello Cortina Evans Pritchard E., I Nuer. Un’anarchia organizzata, Milano, Franco Angeli editore Turner, V., Il processo rituale: Struttura e anti-struttura, Brescia, Morcelliana Geertz C., Interpretazione di culture, Bologna, Mulino Levi-Strauss C., Tristi Tropici, Milano, il Saggiatore Mead M., Sesso e temperamento, Milano, il Saggiatore Comaroff, Comaroff, Teoria dal sud del mondo, Torino Rosenberg and Sellier Abu-Lughod, Lila Sentimenti Velari. Onore e poesia in una società beduina, Torimo. Rosemberg ans Sellier Holmes, Douglas. Integralismi europei. Capitalismo veloce, multiculturalismo, neofascismo, Roma, Meltemi Herzfeld, Michael, Sfrattati dall'eternità. La ristrutturazione neoliberista a Roma, Roma, Meltemi Viveiros de Castro, Eduardo, Prospettivismo cosmologico in amazzonia e altrove, Macerata, Qodlibet Lowenhaupt Tsing Anna, Il fungo alla fine del mondo, La possibilità di vivere nelle rovine del capitalismo, Rovereto, Keller Kohn Eduardo. Come pensano le foreste. Antropologia oltre l'umano, Milano, Nottetempo
- Educational objectives
- Ethnology, in addition to having produced a knowledge of non-Western cultures, also has stimulated a reflection on the dynamics of confrontation and encounter between colonizers and colonized. It can therefore facilitate an understanding of the current relations between rich and poor countries
- Prerequisites
- The exam does not foresee any prerequisites, but it is advisable, for the topics covered, to have carried out the examination of sociology and contemporary history.
- Teaching methods
- Frontal lessons
- Learning verification modality
- Oral examination
- Extended program
- The course is intended to introduce students to the theories and methods of ethnology. They will come initially analyzed some basic concepts such as cultural models, ethnocentrism and inculturation, the relationship between biology and culture. Some authors and the relative currents of history will then be examined of ethnology. In particular, the following will be treated: evolutionism (Tylor, Frazer, Morgan), the functionalism (Malinowski, Radcliffe-Brown, Evans-Pritchard, Douglas), historical particularism and the school of culture and personality (Boas, Benedict, Mead), the French demoethnology (Mauss, Durkheim, Van Gennep, Griaule), Levi-Strauss structuralism, the Manchester School (Gluckman, Epstein, Barth, Turner), De Martino's historicism, dynamist anthropology (Bastide, Balandier), Marxist anthropology (Meillassoux, Godelier, Harris) and the debate between formalists and substantivists, C. Geertz's interpretive anthropology, perspectivism.