FOLKLORE

Popular culture is a category that enjoyed wide fortune in Italy in second half of XIX century, thanks to the influence of Gramsci and the concepts of hegemony and subordination. Some authors, as de Martino and Cirese highly innovate the classical tradition of the studies on folklore, creating a new discipline, the 'demologia'. The course bring an overview of development of folklore and 'demologia' in Italy and their decline today, in front of the entrance on the scene of mass cultural consumption and heritagization processes. The history of popular traditions offers the opportunity to reflect on ways of doing ethnographic research through time, to examine circulation, authenticity and conservation of cultural and to look critically at heritagitization processes in contemporary global and media society.

Know the stages of interest in folklore in Italy, its peculiarities and the disciplinary and political implications of heritagitization.

There are no special requirements.

Popular culture: an historical overview. Folklore: romanticism, positivism, fascism. Antonio Gramsci and popular culture. People, popular and populism: the debate on folklore. From popular medicines to alternative medicines: circulation, exchanges, transformations. From Folklore to heritage: some case studies in Italy and elsewhere. Folklore and ethografic museums. Material culture today. Heritage, political processes and heritage communities,

DEI Fabio (2018), Cultura popolare in Italia. Da Gramsci a ll'Unesco, Bologna, il Mulino.
BARTOLI Paolo, FALTERI Paola (2020), "Introduzione", in ZANETTI Zeno ([1892] 2020), La medicina delle nostre donne, Foligno, Il Formichiere.
About cultural heritage:
BROCCOLINI Alessandra e PADIGLIONE Vincenzo (2017), "Lo "Stato" del patrimonio ai tempi dell'Unesco: una riflessione sulle comunità patrimoniali", in DEI Fabio, DI PASQUALE Caterina (a cura di), Stato, violenza, libertà. La "critica del potere" e l'antropologia contemporanea, Roma, Donzelli, 2017, pp. 281-290 (materiale caricato dalla docente nella piattaforma Moodle);
HERZFELD Michael (2006), "Pom Mahakan: umanità e ordine nel centro storico di Bangkok", in "Antropologia". Numero monografico "Il patrimonio culturale" a cura di Irene MAFFI (2006), a. 6, n. 7, pp. 19-41 (Charged in Moodle platform by the teacher)
POULOT Dominique (2006), "Elementi in vista di un'analisi della ragione patromoniale in Europa, secoli XVIII-XX" in "Antropologia". Numero monografico "Il patrimonio culturale" a cura di Irene MAFFI (2006), a. 6, n. 7, pp. 129-154 (Charged in Moodle platform by the teacher)
PALUMBO Berardino (2006), "Il vento del Sud-Est. Regionalismo, neosicilianismo e politiche del patrimonio nella Sicilia di inizio Millennio", in "Antropologia". Numero monografico "Il patrimonio culturale" a cura di Irene MAFFI (2006), a. 6, n. 7, pp. 43-91 (Charged in Moodle platform by the teacher)

Oral exam to check the skills achieved.

Lessons in presence and /or online according to the University guidelines; Moodle platform; case study on folklore and heritage.

Italian

The teacher is always available at donatella.cozzi@uniud.it
In presence and / or online, the teacher receives the students on Tuesday after the lessons.

oral

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Human capital, health, education" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development