Insegnamento a.a. 2022-2023

• 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, 2019

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:

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

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.

• 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 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.

All reading materials will be provided by the instructor at the beginning pof the course and will be available on BBboard. 

Not attending students should add to the readings for attending students the following text: Ingold T. 2018, Anthropology: Why It Matters, Polity Press, Cambridge.

Not attending students are invited to study the texts following the order suggested by the Syllabus