CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: THE CONTEMPORARY CITY
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2022/2023
- Teacher
- GIUSEPPE SCANDURRA
- Credits
- 8
- Didactic period
- Primo Semestre
- SSD
- M-DEA/01
Training objectives
- The course aims to introduce firstly qualitative research in anthropology and secondly anthropological theories and interpretations in studying urban spaces and in employing them to produce ethnographic research and the tourism processes in our contemporary cities.
Acquired knowledge will be: analytical tools to understand the complexity of urban processes from an anthropological point of view; the analysis of specific and different urban spaces.
The main skills (ie the ability to apply the knowledge acquired) will be: analyze, from the perspective of ethnographic research, some well-known theories in the field of urban anthropology; develop an experimental research study for a specific environment, in urban studies as well. Prerequisites
- none
Course programme
- The 40-hour course is divided in lectures, exercise and presentations of ethnographic research discussed with students.
The contents of the course are the following:
Brief history, theory and method of cultural anthropology: (14 hours);
Urban Anthropology (6 hours).
Field research (6 hours).
Presentation of ethnographic research (7 hours)
Exercises (7 hours) Didactic methods
- The course is organized as follows:
Lectures (22 hours)
Presentation of field research through audiovisual materials (8 hours)
Discussion (exercises, 10 hours)
The lessons will all be face to face and will be recorded and uploaded to the platform Learning assessment procedures
- The aim of the examination is to test the achievement of the previously mentioned educational goals.
The exam is written:
Research Project about a specific urban environment for those present in the class
Open question based on exam texts for those not attending the class Reference texts
- "Ibridi ferraresi" di Giuseppe Scandurra, Meltemi, Roma 2020
Students not attending classe have to learn ten lessons of Anthropology on the web, in addition.
