Cultural Anthropology

The course aims to provide knowledge of the main epistemological paradigm of cultural anthropology:
- knowledge of main concepts and methods of anthropological knowledge;
- knowledge of the history of the concept of culture and ethnographic method;
- knowledge of the main aspects of the ethnographic method for the study of cities and urban communities.

At the end of the course, the student should possess:
- In-Depth Knowledge of the concept of culture and ethnography;
- knowledge of the major anthropological theories and ability to use them to interpret and to analyse the main social processes of contemporaneity
- Critical thinking skills needed to compare different cultural contexts;
- Ability to apply anthropological Knowledge and understanding in relation to the construction of research design
- Awareness of the responsibility in applied anthropology
- Ability to analyse urban dynamics, in order to develop intervention and planning tools in city contexts;
- reading skills, also useful for application purposes, of the main phenomena affecting urban life forms, including, for example, forms of living, migration dynamics, dialectic between policies and practices, governance.