Social And Cultural Anthropology – Pavia

• Nineteenth-Century Evolutionism (pp. 9-18) LEWIS HENRY MORGAN, Ethnical Periods (1877) (pp. 52-65)
• The Foundations of Sociological Thought (pp. 83-88) ÉMILE DURKHEIM: What Is a Social Fact? (1895) (pp. 88-96) MARCEL MAUSS: Excerpts from The Gift (1925) (pp. 96-111)
• The Reemergence of Evolutionary Thought (pp. 251-256)
• Globalization (pp. 531-535)
• Decolonization and Whiteness (pp. 717-725).

Argomenti del programma: The course will provide an introduction to the main theories and methodologies of socio-cultural anthropology. In the first part we will discuss the history of the discipline, by focusing on some of its main authors and theoretical approaches. In the second part we will discuss how anthropologists have explored issues related to globalization and neoliberal global (dis-)orders.

• Nineteenth-Century Evolutionism (pp. 9-18) LEWIS HENRY MORGAN, Ethnical Periods (1877) (pp. 52-65)
• The Foundations of Sociological Thought (pp. 83-88) ÉMILE DURKHEIM: What Is a Social Fact? (1895) (pp. 88-96) MARCEL MAUSS: Excerpts from The Gift (1925) (pp. 96-111)
• The Reemergence of Evolutionary Thought (pp. 251-256)
• Globalization (pp. 531-535)
• Decolonization and Whiteness (pp. 717-725).

Argomenti del programma: The course will provide an introduction to the main theories and methodologies of socio-cultural anthropology. In the first part we will discuss the history of the discipline, by focusing on some of its main authors and theoretical approaches. In the second part we will discuss how anthropologists have explored issues related to globalization and neoliberal global (dis-)orders.