Course 2024-2025 a.y.

• Campi dell’antropologia
• La ricerca antropologica, i suoi fondamenti teorici e le sue basi metodologiche
• la nozione antropologica di cultura
• Media e comunicazione 
• Diversità culturale, disuguaglianze e globalizzazione
• Politiche dell'identità e della memoria
• Cultura materiale e vita sociale delle cose
• Dono, scambio, merce
• Creatività culturale
• L’arte come sistema culturale
• Il collezionismo come pratica trans-culturale

• 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 alla comunicazione interculturale nel quadro dei flussi globali .

• Lezioni
• Testimonianze (in aula o a distanza)

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

Il docente attraverso domande aperte accerta la conoscenza  e comprensione dei contenuti del corso con riferimento agli specifici argomenti trattati in aula e ai testi indicati nella bibliografia dell'esame,

Il docente attraverso domande aperte accerta la conoscenza  e comprensione dei contenuti del corso, relativamente ai testi indicati nella bibliografia che per gli studenti non frequentanti prevede un testo aggiuntivo.

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

Bargna I., "Collecting Practices in Bandjoun, Cameroon: Thinking about Collecting as a Research Paradigm”,  African Arts, University of California, Los Angeles, 49,2.

Bargna I., Black "Lives Matter e la vita sociale dei monumenti", 2020 https://www.asaiafrica.org/blacklivesmatter-italia-asai/black-lives-matter-e-la-vita-sociale-dei-monumenti/

Bargna I., "Il collezionismo come pratica culturale", in R. Perricone, Etnografie ad arte : agency, mimesis, creatività e pratica degli artworks, Museo Pasqualino, Palermo, 2021 pp. 393-413

Bargna I. “La cena dei desideri: antropologi, artisti e persone senza fissa dimora, davanti al futuro”, in T. India, a cura, La definizione culturale del tempo, Edizioni Fondazione Ignazio Buttitta, Palermo, 2028

Ingold T., Antropologia. Ripensare il mondo, Meltemi, Milano, 2020

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

Slide utilizzate dal docente

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

Bargna I., "Collecting Practices in Bandjoun, Cameroon: Thinking about Collecting as a Research Paradigm”,  African Arts, University of California, Los Angeles, 49,2.

Bargna I., Black "Lives Matter e la vita sociale dei monumenti", 2020 https://www.asaiafrica.org/blacklivesmatter-italia-asai/black-lives-matter-e-la-vita-sociale-dei-monumenti/

Bargna I., "Il collezionismo come pratica culturale", in R. Perricone, Etnografie ad arte : agency, mimesis, creatività e pratica degli artworks, Museo Pasqualino, Palermo, 2021 pp. 393-413

Bargna I. “La cena dei desideri: antropologi, artisti e persone senza fissa dimora, davanti al futuro”, in T. India, a cura, La definizione culturale del tempo, Edizioni Fondazione Ignazio Buttitta, Palermo, 2028

Geertz C., Mondo globale, mondi locali, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2009

Ingold T., Antropologia. Ripensare il mondo, Meltemi, Milano, 2020

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

Slide utilizzate dal docente

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;

- work, interact and communicate in intercultural contexts.

Place the anthropological conceptual tools in the context of the educational process, with particular reference to socio-cultural and artistic aspects as well as to inter-cultural communication.

• Lectures
• Guest speaker's talks (in class or in distance)

• 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 complexity. Therefore, students’ attendance is strongly recommended. 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 analysed 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.

PART ONE: BUILDING AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE 

Lesson 1.  Wed. 11.09.24 (14:45-16:15; 16:30-18:00) 

The Anthropological Perspective 

1.1 Shultz E.A., Lavenda R.H. 2014, «What is the Anthropological perspective?», in Cultural Anthropology, Oxford University Press, chapter 1.  

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

Lesson 2. Wed. 18.09.24 (14:45-16:15; 16:30-18:00)  

The Ethnographic Method and The Modern Concept of Science 

2.1 Shultz E.A., Lavenda R.H. 2014, «What is Fieldwork?»  in Cultural Anthropology, Oxford University Press, chapter 3. 

2.2  Malighetti, R. 2021, Anthropology and Ethnography. Science, Method, Writing, 

(eBOOK available on the main platforms: Amazon (Kindle), Ibs, La Feltrinelli, Mondadori Store, Libreria Universitaria, Hoepli, etc..)  

Lesson 3.  Wed. 25.09.24 (14:45-16:15; 16:30-18:00)  

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.  Wed. 02.10.24 (14:45-16:15; 16:30-18:00)  

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.  Wed. 09.10.24 (14:45-16:15; 16:30-18:00) 

The Concept of Culture 

5.1 Shultz E.A., Lavenda R.H. 2014, «Why Is the Concept of Culture Important?»  

in Cultural Anthropology, Oxford University Press, chapter 2. 

Lesson 6.  Wed. 16.10.24 (14:45-16:15; 16:30-18:00) 

Globalization from an Anthropological Perspective  

6.1 Shultz E.A., Lavenda R.H. 2014, «What Can Anthropology Tell Us about Globalization?»,  in Cultural Anthropology, Oxford University Press, chapter 14. 

Lesson 7.  Wed. 06.11.24 (14:45-16:15; 16:30-18:00) 

Multiculturalism and identity 

7.1 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.   Wed. 14.10.20 (15:00-16:30; 16:50-18:20).  

Applied Anthropology 

8.1 Bennett K.S. «Applied Anthropology», in Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems EOLSS Publisher, Oxford, pp. 1-20. 

Lesson 9.   Wed. 20.11.24  (14:45-16:15; 16:30-18:00) 

Anthropology of Development and Cross-Cultural Management 

 9.1. 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 10.  Wed. 27.11.24 (14:45-16:15; 16:30-18:00)  

Anthropology of Organizations  and Cross-Cultural Management 

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

Lesson 11.    

Anthropology of Fashion 

11.1 Hansen K.T. 2004, «The World in Dress: Anthropological Perspectives on Clothing, Fashion, and Culture», in Annual Review of Anthropology, vol. 33, pp. 369-392. 

Lesson 12. Wed. 04.12.24  (14:45-16:15; 16:30-18:00)  

Anthropology of Art 

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

12.2 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. 

12.3 Kisin E. Myers F.R. «The Anthropology of Art, After the End of Art: Contesting the Art-Culture System», in Annual Review of Anthropology, 2019, vol. 48, pp.  317–334.

Non-attending students should add to the required readings the following text:

Ingold T. 2018, Anthropology: why it matters,  Polity Press, Medford.

All teaching materials are online and can be downloaded

The lectures are not simple reproductions of the required readings. The students are invited to study the teaching materials before classes in order to enhance their active participation.

The lectures and the use of PowerPoint are integrative supports to the written material. They cannot be considered as autonomous texts to be studied independently.