Didattica dell'antropologia culturale (2024/2025)

Course code
4S012728
Name of lecturer
Fabio Vicini
Coordinator
Fabio Vicini
Number of ECTS credits allocated
2
Academic sector
M-DEA/01 - DEMOLOGY, ETHNOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY
Language of instruction
Italian
Period
not yet allocated

Syllabus

The main contents of the course are as follows:
- the fundamental concepts of the discipline, such as the concept of culture, ethnocentrism, cultural relativism;
- an introduction to the primary method of the cultural anthropologist: ethnographic field research;
- the main insights of anthropology regarding worldview, ritual, and religion;
- the anthropological perspective on kinship, family, and marriage.

Reference books

See the teaching bibliography

Assessment methods and criteria

- evaluation of attention and participation in class;
- short (500 words) self-assessment report about what has been learned in the course.

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