Didattica dell'antropologia culturale (2024/2025)

Learning outcomes

Knowledge and understanding:
1. Acquire basic knowledge of the fundamentals of socio-cultural anthropology regarding kinship and visions of the world to understand comparatively human variation from a social and cultural viewpoint.
2. Possess knowledge of how social and cultural inequalities are reproduced in society to understand the many forms of racism that people face in the contemporary world.

Applying knowledge and understanding:
1. Promote cultural decentralization and therefore the affective, cognitive, relational, and socio-cultural autonomy of the people with whom the student will work.
2. Use anthropological knowledge to intervene in situations marked by marginality and integration problems, also through the recognition and promotion of different family education models and different cultural styles of learning of the people with whom the student will work.
3. Plan, create, and evaluate educational projects from an anti-racist perspective based on social inclusion and intercultural dialogue.

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.

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