The course aims at introducing students to the most important concepts and methods used by anthropologists in understanding socio-cultural diversity into globalisation processes. This course will additionally highlight to various approaches that form ethnographic practice: participant observation and fieldwork, multi-sited perspective and analysing the postures (gender ethnography in the local and global contexts).
Curriculum
scheda docente
materiale didattico
2. Michela Fusaschi, Gendered genital modifications in critical anthropology: from discourses on FGM/C to new technologies in the sex/gender system. Nature, Int J Impot Res (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41443-022-00542-y
Please choose one of the books from this list :
1. Giovanna Cavatorta, 2018, Tornare è tuo dovere. Etnografie, genere e capitali in Senegal, Cisu, Roma
2. Sally Engle Merry, The Seductions of Quantification, Measuring Human Rights Gender Violence and Sex Trafficking. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2016 (in PDF nei materiali Teams ).
3. Arjun Appadurai, Alexander Neta, Fallimento, Raffaello Cortina Editore, Milano, 2020.
4. Francesca Casafina, La memoria vivida. Corpi, genere e violenza in Colombia (1990-2020) , Nova Delphi Libri, Roma 2021 .
Programma
The course introduces students to the anthropological concepts and methods in understanding cultural diversity ( culture/s, fieldwork, ethnicity, gender, migrations, transnationalism and globalization) . The course examines globalisation's social and cultural dynamics in a second part, drawing on anthropological theory and ethnographic case studies.Testi Adottati
1. Michela Fusaschi, 2018, Corpo non si nasce, si diventa. Antropo-logiche di genere nella globalizzazione, Cisu, Roma2. Michela Fusaschi, Gendered genital modifications in critical anthropology: from discourses on FGM/C to new technologies in the sex/gender system. Nature, Int J Impot Res (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41443-022-00542-y
Please choose one of the books from this list :
1. Giovanna Cavatorta, 2018, Tornare è tuo dovere. Etnografie, genere e capitali in Senegal, Cisu, Roma
2. Sally Engle Merry, The Seductions of Quantification, Measuring Human Rights Gender Violence and Sex Trafficking. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2016 (in PDF nei materiali Teams ).
3. Arjun Appadurai, Alexander Neta, Fallimento, Raffaello Cortina Editore, Milano, 2020.
4. Francesca Casafina, La memoria vivida. Corpi, genere e violenza in Colombia (1990-2020) , Nova Delphi Libri, Roma 2021 .
Bibliografia Di Riferimento
Jonathan Xavier Inda, Renato Rosaldo (eds), The Anthropology of Globalization. A Reader, Blackwell, Malden 2002. Appadurai Arjun, Modernità in polvere. Dimensioni culturali della globalizzazione, Raffaello Cortina Editore, Milano 2012 (ed. or. 1996). Hannerz Ulf, La diversità culturale, Il Mulino, Bologna 2001 (ed. or. 1996). Jonathan Friedman, Globalization and Localization, in Id., Cultural Identity and Global Process, Sage, London 1994 (ed. or. 1990). Kearney Michael, The Local and the Global: The Anthropology of Globalization and Transnationalism, «Annual Review of Anthropology», 24, 1995: 547-565. Jean-Loup Amselle, 2001, Connessioni. Antropologia dell'universalità delle culture, Bollati boringhieri, TorinoModalità Erogazione
Seminar lectures with the use of ethnographic videos are planned. The presence and active participation of students are essentialModalità Frequenza
No mandatoryModalità Valutazione
For the students attending: 1 - finale exam based on open questions or written text . The final grade: 80% on the written tests ; 20% on attendance and active participation during classes . Students who do not attend will have to take an oral examination (max 20 minutes).
scheda docente
materiale didattico
2. Michela Fusaschi, Gendered genital modifications in critical anthropology: from discourses on FGM/C to new technologies in the sex/gender system. Nature, Int J Impot Res (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41443-022-00542-y
Please choose one of the books from this list :
1. Giovanna Cavatorta, 2018, Tornare è tuo dovere. Etnografie, genere e capitali in Senegal, Cisu, Roma
2. Sally Engle Merry, The Seductions of Quantification, Measuring Human Rights Gender Violence and Sex Trafficking. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2016 (in PDF nei materiali Teams ).
3. Arjun Appadurai, Alexander Neta, Fallimento, Raffaello Cortina Editore, Milano, 2020.
4. Francesca Casafina, La memoria vivida. Corpi, genere e violenza in Colombia (1990-2020) , Nova Delphi Libri, Roma 2021 .
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Programma
The course introduces students to the anthropological concepts and methods in understanding cultural diversity ( culture/s, fieldwork, ethnicity, gender, migrations, transnationalism and globalization) . The course examines globalisation's social and cultural dynamics in a second part, drawing on anthropological theory and ethnographic case studies.Testi Adottati
1. Michela Fusaschi, 2018, Corpo non si nasce, si diventa. Antropo-logiche di genere nella globalizzazione, Cisu, Roma2. Michela Fusaschi, Gendered genital modifications in critical anthropology: from discourses on FGM/C to new technologies in the sex/gender system. Nature, Int J Impot Res (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41443-022-00542-y
Please choose one of the books from this list :
1. Giovanna Cavatorta, 2018, Tornare è tuo dovere. Etnografie, genere e capitali in Senegal, Cisu, Roma
2. Sally Engle Merry, The Seductions of Quantification, Measuring Human Rights Gender Violence and Sex Trafficking. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2016 (in PDF nei materiali Teams ).
3. Arjun Appadurai, Alexander Neta, Fallimento, Raffaello Cortina Editore, Milano, 2020.
4. Francesca Casafina, La memoria vivida. Corpi, genere e violenza in Colombia (1990-2020) , Nova Delphi Libri, Roma 2021 .
Bibliografia Di Riferimento
Jonathan Xavier Inda, Renato Rosaldo (eds), The Anthropology of Globalization. A Reader, Blackwell, Malden 2002. Appadurai Arjun, Modernità in polvere. Dimensioni culturali della globalizzazione, Raffaello Cortina Editore, Milano 2012 (ed. or. 1996). Hannerz Ulf, La diversità culturale, Il Mulino, Bologna 2001 (ed. or. 1996). Jonathan Friedman, Globalization and Localization, in Id., Cultural Identity and Global Process, Sage, London 1994 (ed. or. 1990). Kearney Michael, The Local and the Global: The Anthropology of Globalization and Transnationalism, «Annual Review of Anthropology», 24, 1995: 547-565. Jean-Loup Amselle, 2001, Connessioni. Antropologia dell'universalità delle culture, Bollati boringhieri, TorinoModalità Erogazione
Seminar lectures with the use of ethnographic videos are planned. The presence and active participation of students are essentialModalità Frequenza
No mandatoryModalità Valutazione
For the students attending: 1 - finale exam based on open questions or written text . The final grade: 80% on the written tests ; 20% on attendance and active participation during classes . Students who do not attend will have to take an oral examination (max 20 minutes).