ENVIRONMENTAL ANTHROPOLOGY 1 MOD. 1

The course is primarily addressed to students of the Master Degree in Environmental Humanities. The participation of students of other programmes can be authorised upon agreement with the instructors.
Module 1 constitutes the first part of the overall examination of Environmental Anthropology and, in order to obtain the final 12 credits, it must be completed with module 2 held by Prof. Bonifacio. However, module 1 is assessed independently and the assessment contributes to the final grade of the course.
The course is taught in English.

The course introduces the students to socio-cultural anthropology and to its main ways of producing knowledge through ethnography, understood as a research modality that involves different interlocutors in a profound human relationship. The course will enable students to make experience of an ethnographic research applied to issues of environmental relevance, allowing them to grasp the importance of the discipline for the relationship between human and non-human beings and the environment (a relationship which will be explored further in Mod. 2).

This is a required course offered to students enrolled in the Master Degree in the Environmental Humanities. No prior background is required. The first module grants the access to the second module of the course.

Mandatory readings for the first module:
Ingold T. 'Anthropology. Why it matters'. Polity, 2018.
Eriksen, T.H. 'Overheating: An Anthropology of Accelerated Change'. Pluto Press, 2016.

Complementary readings, to get familiar with the theories and methods of anthropology:
Hendry J. 'An Introduction to Social Anthropology. Sharing Our Worlds'. Palgrave, 2016 (third edition).
Eriksen T.H. 'Small Places, Large Issues: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology'. Pluto Press, 2015 (fourth edition).
Dei F. 'Antropologia culturale'. Il Mulino, 2012 (seconda edizione).
Pavanello M. 'Fare antropologia. Metodi per la ricerca etnografica', Zanichelli, 2010.
Deliège R. 'Storia dell'antropologia'. Il Mulino, 2008.

Attendance is not mandatory, but attending students are required to follow and participate in classes, intervening and animating the debate on the topics under consideration. During the course, attending students are required to introduce the topic of the day by presenting, in small groups, a review of one article/chapter suggested by the instructor, encouraging questions and generating a discussion among colleagues. The class will then proceed by exploring the questions raised in the presentation and debate, moving progressively toward theoretical analysis. Attending students are those who carry out the group presentation and attend to at least 75% of the hours of class.
The final exam is constituted by an oral examination, based, for attending students, on the two books cited above. Non attending students will add to the programme all the articles presented during classes (made available in moodle).

The course is taught through lectures, audio-visual materials, class discussion and group presentations of selected articles.

English

The instructor receive students in his office located in the Department of Humanities (Malcanton Marocrà building), upon appointment previously arranged by email.

oral

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