FOLKLORE

The teaching is concerning the training activities characterizing the master's degree courses in Cultural Anthropology, Ethnology, Ethnolinguistics. In addition, it is part of the choose courses of the master's degree in History from the Middle Ages to the Contemporary Age.
Starting from an in-depth analysis of the history of studies on the traditional culture of the popular classes of stratified societies (peasants, shepherds, mountaineers, fishermen, artisans, workers). The aim of the course is to provide an overview of the contemporary studies. The course includes a first introductory part dedicated to the forms and functions of folklore, to the birth and development of studies on popular traditions, folklore, demology. The second part will focus on today's studies in the field of popular traditions and will address research topics related to contemporary phenomena such as Cultural Heritage, historical re-enactments, cultural tourism and the influence of climate change on transformations of cultural facts.This second part of the course will be seminar (compatibly with the evolution of the pandemic emergency). During the course, significant examples of studies and research will be analyzed and discussed.

Attendance and active participation in the training activities proposed by the course (lectures, class presentations, written report) together with the individual study of the compulsory exam material will allow students to:
1. Know the birth and development of studies on the traditional culture of the popular classes (Italian and non-Italian);
2. Know and appreciate the cultural and social complexity of the popular classes;
3. Deepen and analyze particularly significant studies;
4. Know in depth significant research on folklore, especially Italian (but not only), and the related research methodologies;
5. Know the theoretical and epistemological debate relating to popular traditions;
6. Develop the ability to apply ethnographic research methodologies;
7. Develop a critical look at the processes of heritageization, festivals and historical re-enactments and their influence on tourist flows;
8. Ability to examine authenticity and transformations of cultural facts in the face of globalized society and climate change.9. Communication skills: knowing how to summarize and present complex ideas orally (presentation in class) and in written form (final report); develop synthetic skills and specialist language (terminology and formal expression both oral and written).

Basic knowledge of cultural anthropology.

The course is structured in two parts in which the following topics will be addressed in detail:
Part one
a) Birth and development of studies on folklore and popular culture in Modern Europe and in Italy (romanticism, positivism, fascism, Antonio Gramsci, Ernesto de Martino, Alberto M. Cirese);
b) Forms and functions of folklore;
c) Definition of the concept of tradition. How a tradition is born, invented traditions and innovated traditions;
Part two
d) Forms of heritage, political processes, historical re-enactments and their influence on tourist flows;
e) The relationship between tradition and mass culture, globalized society, climate change.

Mandatory texts:
1. - Dei F. (2018) Cultura popolare in Italia. Da Gramsci all’Unesco, Bologna, il Mulino.

2. - Sanga G. (2020) 'La cultura orale', in G. Sanga, La fiaba. Morfologia, antropologia e storia, Padova, Cleup: 5-31.
- Sanga G. (2020) 'La cultura popolare', in G. Sanga, La fiaba. Morfologia, antropologia e storia, Padova, Cleup: 33-52.

3. Lecture notes: La cultura popolare tra tradizione e innovazione: storia degli studi, forme di patrimonializzazione, rievocazioni storiche, turismo e cambiamenti climatici (mandatory, downloadable from Moodle). Lecture note; part one: Folklore, tradizioni popolari, demologia. Part two: Le tradizioni popolari oggi tra Cultural Heritage, Rievocazioni storiche, Turismo culturale e Cambiamenti climatici.

4. Monographs
One book to be chosen from:
• Bonato L. (2016) Antropologia della festa. Vecchie logiche per nuove performance, Franco Angeli, Torino.
•. Bonato L., Zola L. a cura di (2020) Halloween. La festa delle zucche vuote, Franco Angeli, Torino.
• Bruner C. Edward (2005) Culture on Tour, University Chicago Press.
• Cole J., Wolf E. (1994) La frontiera nascosta, Roma, Carocci.
• de Martino E. (2015) Sud e magia, Donzelli (edizione a cura di F. Dei e A. Fanelli).
• Dei F., Di Pasquale C. (2017) Rievocare il passato: memoria culturale e identità territoriali, Pisa University Press.
• Gallini C. (?) I viaggi nel sud di Ernesto de Martino, Torino, Bollati Boringhieri.
• Ginzburg C. (2017) Storia notturna. Una decifrazione del sabba, Editore Adelphi, Collana: Il ramo d’oro.
• Ginzburg C. (2020) I benandanti. Stregoneria e culti agrari tra Cinquecento e Seicento, Editore Adelphi.
• Hobsbawm E.J., Ranger T. (2002), L’invenzione della tradizione, Torino, Giulio Einaudi (eventuali altre edizioni sono accettate previa autorizzazione della docente).
• Lombardi Satriani L.M., Meligrana M. (1997) Un villaggio nella memoria. L’emigrazione, il folklore, il turismo, la mafia, la religione e la donna in Calabria, ed. Gangemi.
• Sanga G. (2020) La fiaba. Morfologia, antropologia e storia, CLEUP, Padova.
• Simonicca A. (2015) Cultura, Patrimonio, Turismo. Dal viaggio alla mobilità culturale, Editore CISU Collana.
• Vianello R. (2004) Pescatori di Pellestrina, la cultura della pesca nell’isola veneziana, Cierre Edizioni/Canova-Regione del Veneto.
• Vianello R. (2018), L'oro nero della Laguna di Venezia. La mitilicoltura fra eredità culturale e nuove tradizioni, collana ACEL (Antropologia Culturale Etnologia Etnolinguistica), Aracne Editrice, Roma.

Non-attending students must bring an additional text chosen from the monographs.

Oral and written exam.
Verification of learning and skills achieved will take place through a written exam (written report) and oral with questions on the texts in the program and on the topics of the lessons; in particular, the understanding of the themes and problems raised during the course and the ability to establish transversal links will be ascertained.
1. Oral presentation in class: the student must present an article or chapter chosen from the compulsory texts of the exam program in collaboration with other students. Students are encouraged to contextualize texts in particular theoretical approaches, to introduce authors and to ask questions to generate discussion.
2. written report on a topic to be agreed with the teacher (3500 words, bibliographic references included, for attending students and 4000 words, bibliographic references included, for non-attending students) to be delivered in paper format and in pdf 15 days before the date of the exam session; Erasmus students are required to speak in Italian.3. written report (3500 words, bibliographic references included, for attending students and 4000 words, bibliographic references included, for non-attending students) to be delivered in paper format and in pdf 15 days before the date of the exam session;
4. oral exam. The student receives comments on the written report and on how to improve their work in terms of content and form. Furthermore, the student must answer some oral questions on the contents of the compulsory texts
4) The final grade is composed as follows:
70% written report
20% oral exam
10% oral presentation in class

The course consists of a series of lectures, with the use of ppt, aimed at presenting the main theoretical and methodological issues of the course and at introducing the methods and timing for carrying out and delivering the other training activities (presentation in class, report written).
1. Presentation in the classroom. Each student must submit an article or chapter indicated in the mandatory texts in collaboration with colleagues. At the end of the presentation the student must generate a discussion and answer the questions of colleagues.
2. The written report must be delivered (paper and pdf format) 15 days before the exam session. The report must present and discuss a topic addressed in the course and deepened with the compulsory study material and in the readings chosen from the "Optional texts or supplementary readings" list. The problem identified in the introduction must be supported by examples and theoretical approaches taken from the literature recommended for the course. The report must be typewritten (Times New Roman 12), with a line spacing of 1.5, and with a margin of 2cm. All ideas cited directly or indirectly from the study material (monographs, articles) must be attributed to the author indicating the author's name, publication date and page numbers. The model "(author date)" in the text is preferred, provided it is accompanied by complete bibliographic references at the end of the text. Students are asked to follow the editorial rules of a national or international anthropology journal.

Italian

Students must carry out the current Academic Year program. Programs from previous Academic Years cannot be brought.
Attendance is not compulsory but highly recommended. Both attending and non-attending students must agree on the subject of the written report with the teacher.
Students who do not deliver the written report (in paper and pdf format) by the date and time set and communicated well in advance cannot take the exam and must attend the next session. All students are requested to consult the teacher's notices on MOODLE and on her University page.
The course is not valid for obtaining CFUs in M-DEA / 01 for the FIT path.
Erasmus students are required to speak in Italian.
The teacher is always available at: rita.vianello@unive.it
The student reception, in person and / or online, is on Monday from 16.30.
Teaching language: Italian.

written and oral

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Poverty and inequalities" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development