Scuola di Scienze Giuridiche, Politiche ed Economico-Sociali
Kursthemen
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The course will be structured as follows:
Lectures:
we will have lectures dedicated to both the Andean and the Brazilian indigenous worlds. Some lectures will be devoted to anthropological theories and contexts, some to ethnographic cases and themes.
Lectures will be held online here: https://unito.webex.com/meet/sofia.venturoli on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 12-14
We will have 2 guest lectures:
· On the 24th of November, Anna Bottesi “Ethnic emergence and indigenous museology in the State of Piauí (Brazil)”, about ethnogenesis in Brazil the case of indigenous museums
· On the 25th of November, Santiago Manuel Gimenez “Afro-Argentines. Expansion and consolidation of an interdisciplinary field of study”, About Afro-descendants people in Argentina historical cultural trajectories and discrimination by the polic from a historical and anthropological perspective.
Class discussion:
each Monday we will discuss in class two scientific papers, that students will have to read at home the week before. Students must choose their day to present in the “Student Presentation” calendar. Depending on how many students decide to participate to the course as “attending students” we will decide how many students will be involved to the presentation each week; in any case, no more than 6, 3 for each paper. Each attending student must present at least once. Students presenting on the same paper should work together to prepare the presentation. All students have a Webex room where they can meet if is not possible to meet in presence. After presentation we will open the discussion to all students, everybody is expected to participate to class discussion.
Working groups and your presentation:
each group will have to carry out a research on the web, concerning the topics discussed in the lessons on Indigenous Resilience against covid-19, starting from the materials provided on Moodle. Research will have to focus on a specific ethnic group and collect resources (articles, links to sites, documents, videos, etc.) depicting political and socio-cultural practices that the indigenous group is implementing to tackle the pandemic. Each students team will then have to briefly analyse the approaches that the population is pursuing, providing a brief ethnographic presentation based on literature review and web research. The result of the work can be displayed through a web site, a recorded video, a padlet, or any other support. Groups will present their work to the class in the lessons on 14,15,16 December.
See examples here in the section "Obiettivi Formativi" at the top of the page.
Attending students
are the ones who follow the lectures (skip no more than 2-3 lessons, and not the ones when are supposed to present) are active in class, present the articles, read the articles even when they not expected to present, make the group research and present the research result.
Final Evaluation:
Lectures participation, papers presentation, class discussion and working group presentation constitute 2/3 of the final evaluation. The other part will consist in the reading and oral exposition of two ethnographies chosen from the exam list, during the oral exam.
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Required readings to be discussed in class
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Until the end of this week we need to know who wants to participate in the workshops (and in the class presentations too) that means to be an attending student. I'm considering 9 group of about 4-5 persons more or less, depending on how many decide to be attending students.
Groups should be presenting on the last week of the course, that will be 14-15-16 of December, (because 8th of December is holiday and is Tuesday, I propose, to skip on the next week directly to give you more time too if is ok for you). 20 minutes presentation each group.
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it was a dark and stormy night
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Starting from questions and reflections of some compañeras, I would like to open this space of dialogue on some important topics in anthropology.
Our bodies, our skin color, our sex and gender, our nationalities, our way of talking and many other categories, even not visible, impose some dynamics of power and of positioning on the situations that we are living and on others people with whom we are interacting. These categories are historically and culturally constructed but are dynamic too, we can always negotiate them, having some space to change our positioning.
The process of positioning within the community in which I do fieldwork is central, and I must be aware that it will be always a negotiated process and is often subject to change over time.
Anthropology has reflected a lot on this theme, we could start from this famous and somewhat shocking article: Grief and a Headhunter’s Rage Renato Rosaldo
It could be really nice if you would like to share some thoughts, experiences, links, articles, material or doubts with the class about this, or related topic.
ciao
Sofia
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TERRITORY
In a context where capital continues to expand, where extractivism, land grabs, violent and forced displacements, the effects of climate emergency and structural violence destroys the web of life, how do we heal the Territory?
BODY
When our bodies, our mothers and grandmothers have been plundered by war, when systemic racism grows, showing its ugliest face, and patriarchy reacts violently against our organizations, how do we cure the Body?
SPIRIT
When the monoculture of progress and development colonize our aspirations. When religious fundamentalism is a plague in our communities, eroding the knowledge of our grandmothers and grandfathers, how do we heal the Spirit?
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The story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an extremely determined man who intends to build an opera house in the middle of a jungle.
Director: Werner Herzog
Writer: Werner Herzog
Stars: Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, José Lewgoy
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The invention of the America as the first milestone of the colonial project and of the Eurocentric construction of the globalized world in the image and likeness of Europe and the US. The conquest, the invention of the America as a necessary condition for the European and western imperial expansion at epistemological level (as a model of imposition of values based on the logic of coloniality) but also economic.While the term colonialism indicates and designates precise historical periods and areas of imperial domination (Spanish, Portuguese, English, etc.) coloniality is the "dark side" of modernity and European imperial expansion...
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Read only "Preface: Uncoupling the Name and the Reference"
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The Idea of Latin America: Uncoupling the Name and the Reference
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THE PRODUCTION OF OTHER KNOWLEDGES AND ITS TENSIONS: FROM ANDEANIST ANTHROPOLOGY TO INTERCULTURALIDAD?
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The original version is from the '70s, this is a new rock one from 2014.
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To know more about Huayno Divas, you can have a look here. A research made by your compañeras last year.
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Artes e Amazônia, La selva de noche - Catalina Vargas
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"Negligência, de quem?" mostra os choques culturais envolvidos na retirada de crianças indígenas das aldeias de Dourados pelos serviços de acolhimento, muitas vezes, sob a justificativa de "negligência" dos pais, ou seja, por uma suposta falta de "cuidado". O filme retrata e discute os efeitos devastadores desse processo nas vidas de quatro mães indígenas cujos filhos foram levados a abrigos urbanos.
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Everett's most controversial claim is that the Pirah language lacks 'recursion' - the ability to build an infinite number of sentences within sentences, regarded by Chomsky-ists as perhaps the most fundamental characteristic of human language. The Grammar Of Happiness interweaves the tale of Everett's attempt to return to the Pirah with the story of his personal journey since the sixties - from drug-taking musician to evangelical missionary to rabble-rousing academic. It's the adventurous tale of losing faith but finding happiness.
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Each group will have to carry out a research on the web, concerning the topics discussed in the lessons on Indigenous Resilience against covid-19, starting from the materials provided on Moodle. Research will have to focus on a specific ethnic group and collect resources (articles, links to sites, documents, videos, etc.) depicting political and socio-cultural practices that the indigenous group is implementing to tackle the pandemic. Each students team will then have to briefly analyse the approaches that the population is pursuing, providing a brief ethnographic presentation based on literature review and web research. The result of the work can be displayed through a web site, a recorded video, a padlet, or any other support. Groups will present their work to the class in the lessons on 14,15,16 December.
See examples here in the section "Obiettivi Formativi" at the top of the page.