OVERVIEW

The course afford form different points of view, the notion of "community". In particular, the differences between the "classical" community of the socio-anthropological tradition and the online communities will be highlighted. The different aspects of the community, from the modalities of aggregation, to the types of bonds and the construction of borders will be examined.

The concepts of network communication and the anthropological change taking place will be analyzed.

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The educational objective of the discipline is the acquisition of a theoretical and methodological instrumentation functional to the analysis of the communication rhetoric relative to the construction of the "other" and the consequent identity of the "us".

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

To provide some anthropological interpretation keys to the complexity that characterizes our era.

TEACHING METHODS

The lessons will be face-to-face in accordance with the rules for access to university premises adopted to combat the pandemic spread by COVID, the lessons can possibly be carried out on TEAMS, in the Anthropology of contemporaneity Team ACCESS CODE: 2mr3lpj

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

The program includes a series of readings useful for building a community reading path.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

M. Aime, Comunità, il Mulino, Bologna

Più un testo a scelta tra:

 S. Turkle, La conversazione necessaria, Einaudi, Torino

Z. Bauman, Voglia di comunità, Laterza, Bari

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

MARCO AIME (President)

SALVATORE BRUNO BARBA

LESSONS

LESSONS START

September 13th

Monday 16-18

Wednwsday 8-10

Teams access code 2mr3lpj

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Written examen with open questions

ASSESSMENT METHODS

The result will be proportional to the ability developed by the student to elaborate with critical spirit the basic concepts of anthropological analysis, his ability to connect these concepts with the surrounding reality and to draw an articulated reading.

Exam schedule