OVERVIEW

The course will deal with the issues of meeting and ibridation between cultures,  with particular reference 
to the migrations and the history of South America.

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course aims at look into the issues of meeting between cultures and cultural ibridation, with particular reference to    the South America. The universalistic and relativistic positions will be examined in order to reflect about transcultural processes,  such as the diffusion of afro-american religions. The course  intends to propose the cultural miscegenation as an ideal mediation between  homogenisation and multicultural fragmentation.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course aims at assess the cultural miscegenation as an ideal mediation between homogenisation and multicultural fragmentation. 
At the end of the course, students will be able to analyse themes related to the meeting between cultures and cultural ibridation, to describe universalistic and relativistic positions, to comments on transcultural processes,  such as the diffusion of afro-american religions, to discuss how and why the cultural miscegenation can be considered a resource enabling  societies  to negotiate  between globalization and multicultural fragmentation.

TEACHING METHODS

Frontal classes with use of multimedial devices, driven discussions in court, group activities of cooperative learning, individual exercises.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

The course will present the main currents of Cultural Anthropology's in their historical development – from Evolutionism to Functionalism, from Structuralism to Post-Modernism –, the main theoretical and  methodological approaches adopted by anthropologists, from Universalism to Relativism. The course will also analyse the concept of  miscegenation in History and Social Sciences. Different ethnographic case studies, in particular from Brazilian contexts, will be considered. The whole course  intends to propose the miscegenation as real possibility for the human future.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Per nove crediti:
 2 mandatory texts among the following:: 
-Bruno Barba Dio negro. Sesso, senso natura tra Africa e Brasile. Seid, Firenze, 2013
- Bruno Barba, Meticcio. L’opportunità della differenza, effequ, Orbetello, 2018
2 testi a scelta tra: a choice of 2 texts among the following:
- François Laplantine, Identità e meticciato, Eleuthera, Milano, 2011
- Francesco Pompeo Autentici meticci, Meltemi, Roma 2009
- Bruno Barba (a cura di), Tutto è relativo. La prospettiva in Antropologia. Seid, Firenze, 2008
- Jean Loup Amselle, Logiche meticce, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino, 1999 
- Jean Loup Amselle, Contro il primitivismo, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino, 2012
- Massimo Canevacci, Sincretismi, Costa & Nolan, Milano, 2004
- Roberto Fernandez Retamar, Calibano, saggi sull'identità culturale dell'America Latina, Sperling & Kupfer, Milano, 2002
- Néstor Garcia Canclini, Culture ibride, Guerini, Milano, 1998
- Guido Barbujani, L'invenzione delle razze, Bompiani, Milano 2007
- Franco La Cecla, Il Malinteso. Antropologia dell'incontro, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2009
- Bruno Barba, Calciologia. Per un’antropologia del football, Mimesi, Milano, 2016
- Bruno Barba, Mitologia degli orixas. Le divinità della natura dall’Africa al Brasile, Ed.it, Firenze, 2015

Per sei crediti: 
 2 mandatory texts
- Bruno Barba Dio negro. Sesso, senso natura tra Africa e Brasile. Seid, Firenze, 2013
- Bruno Barba, Meticcio. L’opportunità della differenza, effequ, Orbetello, 2018
un testo a scelta tra:
- François Laplantine, Identità e meticciato, Eleuthera, Milano, 2011
- Francesco Pompeo Autentici meticci, Meltemi, Roma 2009
- Bruno Barba (a cura di), Tutto è relativo. La prospettiva in Antropologia. Seid, Firenze, 2008
- Jean Loup Amselle, Logiche meticce, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino, 1999 
- Jean Loup Amselle, Contro il primitivismo, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino, 2012
- Massimo Canevacci, Sincretismi, Costa & Nolan, Milano, 2004
- Roberto Fernandez Retamar, Calibano, saggi sull'identità culturale dell'America Latina, Sperling & Kupfer, Milano, 2002
- Néstor Garcia Canclini, Culture ibride, Guerini, Milano, 1998
- Guido Barbujani, L'invenzione delle razze, Bompiani, Milano 2007
- Franco La Cecla, Il Malinteso. Antropologia dell'incontro, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2009
- Bruno Barba, Calciologia. Per un’antropologia del football, Mimesi, Milano, 2016
- Bruno Barba, Mitologia degli orixas. Le divinità della natura dall’Africa al Brasile, Ed.it, Firenze, 2015

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

SALVATORE BRUNO BARBA (President)

MARCO AIME

LESSONS

LESSONS START

On 23 February,  2021

Class schedule

ANTHROPOLOGY OF HYBRIDITY

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Oral final text.

ASSESSMENT METHODS

The final text will allow to check the student’s analytical ability.

Will be assessed the capacity of argue, the fair use of anthropological terminology, the student’s critical thinking.

Exam schedule