Course 2021-2022 a.y.

• Campi dell’antropologia.
• La ricerca antropologica, i suoi fondamenti teorici e le sue basi metodologiche.
• Il concetto antropologico di cultura.
• Diversità culturale e politiche culturali.
• Comunicazione e significato.
• Potere e risorse.
• La competizione per le risorse economiche e materiali.
• Dono, scambio, merce.
• Modelli di consumo culturale.
• L’arte come sistema culturale.
• Identità, sviluppo e globalizzazione.

• Conoscere in modo adeguato i concetti e i metodi basilari dell'antropologia culturale.
• Comprendere i rapporti culturalmente significativi che si instaurano tra individui o tra comunità.
• Comprendere il collegamento esistente tra lo scambio e l'uso di immagini, di oggetti, di merci, di doni e le forme di relazione sociale improntate a fattori quali uguaglianza, disuguaglianza, gerarchia in rapporto a dinamiche di tipo economico, religioso, interetnico ecc.

• Utilizzare strumenti antropologici adeguati per collocare le conoscenze acquisite nel contesto dell'iter formativo previsto dal corso di laurea, in riferimento soprattutto agli aspetti socio-culturali connessi con gli eventi artistici e culturali e con speciale attenzione per la comunicazione inter-culturale.

• Lezioni frontali
• Analisi casi studio / Incidents guidati (tradizionali, multimediali)

• Lezioni frontali con utilizzo di software e/o tecnologia innovativa.
• Discussioni di teorie e/o casi di studio anche in riferimento ad etnografie condotte in prima persona dal docente.

Il docente attraverso domande accerta la conoscenza  e comprensione dei contenuti del corso (la bibliografia dell'esame comune a  studenti frequentanti e non frequentanti, ma che per questi  ultimi prevede un testo aggiuntivo). Gli studenti frequentanti devono anche dimostrare la conoscenza e comprensione degli specifici argomenti  trattati in aula.

Fabietti U., Storia dell'antropologia, Zanichelli, Bologna, 2020

Bargna I., a cura, Mediascapes. Pratiche dell'immagine e antropologia culturale, Mimesis, Milano, 2018

Bargna I,, Forme del sacro e arte contemporanea fra materiale e immateriale,
Antropologia, 6, 1

Bargna I., Collecting Practices in Bandjoun, Cameroon. Thinking about Collecting as a Research Paradigm, African Arts, 49, 2, 2016

Plattner S., A Most Ingenious Paradox: The Market for Contemporary Fine Art, American Anthropologist, 100, 2, 1988

Ai non frequentanti è richiesta inoltre la lettura di:

Hannerz U., Diversità culturale, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2001

PART ONE: BUILDING THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE

Lesson 1.  The Anthropological Perspective

Lesson 2.  The Ethnographic Method: the Positivist Approach

Lesson 3.  The Ethnographic Method Today

Lesson 4.  The Contributions of Anthropology to the Scientific Endeavour.

Lesson 5.  The Concept of Culture.

Lesson 6.  Globalization from a Cultural Perspective.

Lesson 7.  Multiculturalism, Globalization and Identity.

PART TWO:  APPLYING ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORIES

Lesson 8.   Applied Anthropology

Lesson 9.    Anthropology of Organizations and Cross-cultural Management

Lesson 10.  Anthropology of Development and Cross-cultural Management

Lesson 11.  Anthropology of Finance

Lesson 12.  Anthropology of Art

After successful completion of this course students will be able to:

- understand the complexity of contemporary world using the anthropological theories and methods;

- understand the impact of globalization on the selected topics: culture, organizations, international cooperation and development, finance, art;

- integrate cultural anthropology into an interdisciplinary approach.

After succesful completion of this course students will be able to:

- use some elements and perspectives of the ethnographic methods to the analysis of te contemporary world;

- use the cultural appproach to globalization to study organizations, intenational cooperation and development, the qorld of finance and of art;

- work interact and communicate in intercultural contexts.

• Face-to-face lectures
• Guest speaker's talks (in class or in distance)
• Case studies /Incidents (traditional, online)

• Lectures will be structured according to the standard format: they include, in addition to face-to-face lectures, case-studies discussions and interactions with guest speakers who actively contributed to the scientific literature on a specific topic. The lectures are not a simple reproductions of the required readings (all uploaded in the BBboard), which the students are invited to study before classes, in order to enhance their active participation. The lectures and the use of PowerPoint are an integrative support to understand the written material and cannot in any way be considered as autonomous texts to be studied independently.

• Attendance: some of the assigned readings feature a high degree of theoretical sophistication. Therefore, students’ attendance is strongly recommended. Although no formal prerequisites are required, the lectures provide students the  necessary background to understand the contents of the teaching materials.

Oral exam, (100% of the finale grade) based on open questions. It aims to assess the student's skills to elaborate the contents proposed by the course, discussed in class and treated by the required readings. It verifies the ability to apply the theoretical contributions to case studies and to the topics selected by the course as well as to one's own educational and work projects.

Oral exam, (100% of the finale grade) based on open questions. It aims to assess the student's skills to elaborate the contents proposed by the required readings. It verifies the ability to apply the theoretical contributions to case studies and to the topics selected by the course as well as to one's own educational and work projects.

All the reading materials will be provided by the instructor and will be available on BBboard. This is the complete list of the required readings.

PART ONE: THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE

Lesson 1.  The Anthropological Perspective

Shultz E.A., Lavenda R.H. 2014, «What is the Anthropological Perspective?» in

 Shultz E.A., Lavenda R.H., Cultural Anthropology, Oxford University Press,  Chapter 1 (pp. 4-18).

1.2 Shultz E.A., Lavenda R.H. 2014, «How has Anthropological Thinking about Cultural Diversity Changed over Time?», in Shultz E.A., Lavenda R.H., Cultural Anthropology, Oxford University Press,  chapter 4 (pp. 73-97).

Lesson 2. The Ethnographic Method: the Positivist Approach

2.1 Shultz E.A., Lavenda R.H. 2014, «What is Fieldwork?» in  Shultz E.A., Lavenda R.H., Cultural Anthropology, Oxford University Press,   chapter 3. (pp.41-40 = 29)

2.2  Malighetti, R. 2021, Anthropology and Ethnography. Science, Method, Writing, (eBOOK available on the main platforms: Amazon, Ibs, La Feltrinelli, Mondadori Store, Libreria Universitaria, Hoepli, ecc.)

Lesson 3.  The Ethnographic Method Today

3.1 Malighetti, R. 2020, “The Work and Legacy of Clifford Geertz. An Essay on the Interpretive Turn in Anthropology” in Bérose - Encyclopédie internationale des histoires de l’anthropologie, Paris, IIAC- LAHIC, UMR 8177. URL: http://www.berose.fr/

Lesson 4.  The Contributions of Anthropology to the Scientific Dialogue.

4.1 Malighetti, R. 2019, «The plural unification of sciences: the epistemological contributions of a perpetually dissatisfied discipline» in International Journal of Anthropology and Ethnology, 3:1, https://doi.org/10.1186/s41257-019-0016-8

Lesson 5.  Cultural Complexity

5.1  Shultz E.A., Lavenda R.H. 2014, «Why Is the Concept of Culture Important?», in  Shultz E.A., Lavenda R.H., Cultural Anthropology, Oxford University Press,  chapter 2 (pp. 21-39).

Lesson 6.  Globalization from an Anthropological Perspective

7.1 Shultz E.A., Lavenda R.H. 2014, «What Can Anthropology Tell Us about Globalization?» Shultz E.A., Lavenda R.H., Cultural Anthropology, Oxford University Press, chapter 14 (pp. 373 – 407).

Lesson 7.  Multiculturalism, globalization, identity.

8.1 Malighetti R., 2010, “Identitarian Policies in the Quilombo Frechal: Live Histories in a Brazilian Community of Slave Descendants”, in Outlines. Critical Practice Studies, n° 2, pp. 97-112.

PART TWO:  APPLYING ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORIES

Lesson 8.   Applied Anthropology

6.1 Kottak C.P. 2017, «Applying anthropology» in Kottak C.P. Cultural Anthropology, McGraw-Hill. New York,  Chapter. 5 (pp. 60-77).

Lesson 9.  Anthropology of Organizations and Cross-cultural Management

9.1. Baba, M. L. 2012, Anthropology and Business: Influence and Interests, Journal of Business Anthropology, 1 (1), pp. 20-71.

Lesson 10.   Anthropology of Development and Cross-cultural Management

10.1. Lewis D. Mosse D. 2006, Encountering Order and Disjuncture: Contemporary Anthropological Perspectives on the Organization of Development, Oxford Development Studies, Vol. 34, No. 1, March 2006, pp. 1-13.                                                                  

Lesson 11. Anthropology of Finance

11.1. Appadurai A. 2016, The Logic of Promissory Finance in Appadurai A.,  Banking on Words. The Failure of Language in the Age of Derivative Finance, Chicago, Chicago University Press pp.1-14; 149-156 (Chapter one: The logic of promissory finance pp. 1-14; Chapter nine: The end of the contractual promise pp. 149-156)

Lesson 12. Anthropology of Art

Kottak C.P. 2017, «Arts, Media and Sports», in Kottak C.P. Cultural Anthropology, McGraw-Hill. New York,  chapter. 13 (pp. 60-77)

12.2 Geertz, C. 1983, Art as a cultural system, in C. Geertz Local Knowledge, Basic Books, New York, pp. 94-120.

12.3 Clifford J.1988, On Collecting Art and Culture, in Clifford J. The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art, Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA. pp. 215-251

Not attending students should add to the readings for attending students the following text:

Appadurai A., 1996, Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis London. Not attending students are invited to study the texts following the order suggested by the Syllabus