Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology

The course provides a conceptual overview of the main theoretical paradigms in anthropology, including functionalism, structuralism, interactionism, Marxism, socio-ecology and post-modernism. The course therefore provides students with knowledge and critical understanding of the theoretical, methodological and applied aspects of ethnography; it proposes areal and sectoral perspectives within which anthropological research projects are active or can be activated; it shows the variability of the fields of interest within which disciplinary skills can be applied; it develops students' autonomous ability to relate what they have learned to other disciplinary sectors; enables students to use the knowledge acquired and the specific language learned for the so-called "transversal skills".