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B019216 - GENDER ANTROPOLOGY
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Academic Year 2014-15
Course year
First year - First Semester
Belonging Department
Humanities (DILEF)
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
M-PED/01 - PEDAGOGY, THEORIES OF EDUCATION AND SOCIAL EDUCATION
Credits
12
Teaching Hours
60
Teaching Term
22/09/2014 ⇒ 19/12/2014
Attendance required
Yes
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
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Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
The course introduces the discipline of anthropology, focusing on the issues of the division of roles between the sexes and kinship relations. Through the analysis of the history of the discipline and the study of the texts, we highlight the anthropological contribution to the definition of contemporary concept of gender. An in-depth view is offered to the work of Margaret Mead with the study of the two texts, Adolescence in Samoa and Sex and Temperament. The second part of the course deals with the roots of the feminist concept of gender, in the complex interaction between the demand for universal rights and the cultural specificity. In the last part of the course focuses the "anthropological mutation" of the current family. Anthropology has relativized the essentialist idea of the family; through the analysis of single parenthood, the historical making of the family in the frame of gender relations and trends of the present are identified.
Suggested readings (Search our library's catalogue)
Books
-Cavalli Sforza, Luca e Francesco (1995), Chi siamo. Storia della diversità umana. Mondadori, Milano
or
-Levi Strauss, Claude (2002), Razza e storia. Razza e cultura. Einaudi, Torino
-Mead Margaret (1980) L’adolescente in una società primitiva. Uno studio psicologico della gioventù primitiva ad uso della società occidentale (tit. orig.: Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilization - 1928); edizione italiana: 1980, Giunti-Barbera, Firenze.
Mead Margaret (2003) Sesso e temperamento in tre società primitive (tit. orig.: Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies – 1935) Edizione italiana: 2003, Net,
Campani Giovanna (2010), Genere e globalizzazione, ETS, Pisa (selectioned chapters; all the book for students non attending the lessons)
Campani Giovanna (2012), Madri sole. Rosenberg, Torino
-Cavalli Sforza, Luca e Francesco (1995), Chi siamo. Storia della diversità umana. Mondadori, Milano
or
-Levi Strauss, Claude (2002), Razza e storia. Razza e cultura. Einaudi, Torino
-Mead Margaret (1980) L’adolescente in una società primitiva. Uno studio psicologico della gioventù primitiva ad uso della società occidentale (tit. orig.: Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilization - 1928); edizione italiana: 1980, Giunti-Barbera, Firenze.
Mead Margaret (2003) Sesso e temperamento in tre società primitive (tit. orig.: Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies – 1935) Edizione italiana: 2003, Net,
Campani Giovanna (2010), Genere e globalizzazione, ETS, Pisa (selectioned chapters; all the book for students non attending the lessons)
Campani Giovanna (2012), Madri sole. Rosenberg, Torino
Learning Objectives
Understand the concept of cultura
Understanding the cultural relativism.
Understand the concept of gender.
Understanding the social construction of femininity.
Understanding the social construction of motherhood.
Understanding the social construction of stigma (gender, ethnicity, etc. ...).
Understand the concept of culturae
Understanding the cultural relativism.
Understand the concept of gender.
Understanding the social construction of femininity.
Understanding the social construction of motherhood.
Understanding the social construction of stigma (gender, ethnicity, etc. ...).
Understanding the cultural relativism.
Understand the concept of gender.
Understanding the social construction of femininity.
Understanding the social construction of motherhood.
Understanding the social construction of stigma (gender, ethnicity, etc. ...).
Understand the concept of culturae
Understanding the cultural relativism.
Understand the concept of gender.
Understanding the social construction of femininity.
Understanding the social construction of motherhood.
Understanding the social construction of stigma (gender, ethnicity, etc. ...).
Prerequisites
A basic knowledge of European history from the beginning of modernity.
Constant attention to current events (daily reading of newspapers).
Basic notions of social sciences (society, conflict, social movement ...).
Constant attention to current events (daily reading of newspapers).
Basic notions of social sciences (society, conflict, social movement ...).
Teaching Methods
Lectures, seminars, screenings of documentary films.
Further information
Il parziale di antropologia di genere avrà luogo il 15 dicembre in orario di lezione, dalle 15 alle 18.
Le domande aperte a cui bisogna rispondere con un brevissimo saggio verteranno sulle due prime parti del corso: l’introduzione all’antropologia e l’opera di Margaret Mead. Verterà su quattro testi, tra i quali i candidati ne sceglieranno due, uno per comparto.
I testi relativi alla prima parte sono:
Luca e Francesco Cavalli Sforza, Chi siamo oppure Claude Lévi Strauss, Razza e cultura.
I testi relativi alla seconda parte sono le due opere di Margaret Mead: Adolescenza in Samoa o Sesso e Temperamento.
I risultati saranno disponibili a partire dal dieci gennaio. Chi avrà ricevuto un voto inferiore a ventisette, potrà rifiutarlo e sostenere di nuovo l’esame sui testi della prima e seconda parte.
Le domande aperte a cui bisogna rispondere con un brevissimo saggio verteranno sulle due prime parti del corso: l’introduzione all’antropologia e l’opera di Margaret Mead. Verterà su quattro testi, tra i quali i candidati ne sceglieranno due, uno per comparto.
I testi relativi alla prima parte sono:
Luca e Francesco Cavalli Sforza, Chi siamo oppure Claude Lévi Strauss, Razza e cultura.
I testi relativi alla seconda parte sono le due opere di Margaret Mead: Adolescenza in Samoa o Sesso e Temperamento.
I risultati saranno disponibili a partire dal dieci gennaio. Chi avrà ricevuto un voto inferiore a ventisette, potrà rifiutarlo e sostenere di nuovo l’esame sui testi della prima e seconda parte.
Type of Assessment
Oral test
Course program
The course will begin with an introduction to key concepts in anthropology, through the study of Levi Strauss, and Cavalli-Sforza, but also the reading of texts by Herskovits, Benedict, Mead. Students will learn the concept of cultural relativism.
The course will then focus on the analysis of the work of Margaret Mead in relation to sexual difference. Once established the importance of anthropology in the reflection on the social construction of femininity, the course will analyse the concept of gender as part of the feminist literature. Currently the concept of gender is one of the most crucial in the social sciences. Finally the course will highlight – through several examples- how the construction of roles and representations of femininity or motherhood are produced in different societies.
The course will then focus on the analysis of the work of Margaret Mead in relation to sexual difference. Once established the importance of anthropology in the reflection on the social construction of femininity, the course will analyse the concept of gender as part of the feminist literature. Currently the concept of gender is one of the most crucial in the social sciences. Finally the course will highlight – through several examples- how the construction of roles and representations of femininity or motherhood are produced in different societies.