ETHNOGRAPHIES OF OCEANIA

The course is among the non compulsory teaching activities of the MA course in Anthropology Ethnology and Anthropological Linguistics.

The course has the objective of introducing students to the ethnographic study of Oceania from and historical as well as through the study of recent monographs. The key themes of the course will be: the appropriation and re signification of Christianity, the production, circulation and consumption of Pacific art, and the recent debates on the environment and climatic change

The course aims to provide students with knowledge and tools:
1. to learn the main themes and debates in the study of Oceania in Cultural Anthropology
2. to acquire the ability to identify le limits of theoretical approaches in the light of more recent critiques
3. to acquire an ability to synthesize ideas and articulate complex theoretical approaches

Attending class and participation in the course training activities (face-to-face lectures, class presentation, written exam essay) together with individual preparation of the compulsory readings will allow students to:
1. Knowledge and comprehension
- to know the main themes and debates in the Anthropology of Oceania
- to know theoretical approaches applied to contemporary realities (challenges of new reproduction technologies)
. to know the main theoretical approaches characterizing the history of anthropological thought
2. Ability to apply knowledge and comprehension
- to interpret a case study in the specific theoretical frameworks
- to apply theoretical notions to specific case studies from a comparative perspective
3. capacity for evaluation
- be able to formulate and express complex ideas by comparing and contrasting different theoretical and methodological perspectives
- to develop a critical approach to the literature (identify contributions and limits)
4. Communicative abilites
- To be able to summarize and present complex ideas orally (class presentations) and in writing (final exam essay)
- to develop the ability for synthesis and knowledge of the technical language (expressions and terminology)
5. Learning capacity
- Specialized knowledge in structuring and writing a scientific essay
- the capacity to develop research autonomy in the interpretation of data

No prerequisiteS. Students who approach for the first time a course in Cultural Anthropology, are invited to come to talk to the lecturer in order to arrange for a specific program.

EXAM PROGRAM
1) list of 'COMPULSORY READINGS', see below, available in pdf format in pdf in MOODLE
2) TWO ARTICLES from the list " Testi facoltativi o letture integrative

COMPULSORY READINGS

Cottino, G. 2020. Antropocen(trich) e visioni dell’interazione tra uomo e natura. Spunti sulle ontologie giuridiche indigene dell’Oceania, in La Natura come soggetto di diritti. Prospettive antropologiche e giuridiche a confronto, a cura di F. Cuturi, Firenze, Edit Press pp. 385-412.
De Certeau, M. 2001 Culture popolari (cap II) e Modi d’uso: arti e tattiche (cap III), in L’invenzione del quotidiano, Edizioni Lavoro, Roma, pp. 45-79.
Hau’Fa, E. 2000 Pasts to Remember, in Remembrance of Pacific Pasts: An Invitation to Remake History, University of Hawai’i Press, Honolulu, pp.453-471.
Gravano, V. 2002 Artisti o maghi, in Avatar. Dislocazioni tra antropologia e comunicazione, 3, Meltemi, Roma, pp. 18-26.
Langton, M. 2003 Aboriginal Art and Film. The Politics of Representation, in Blacklines. Contemporary Critical Writing, (a cura di) M. Grossman, pp. 109-124.
Tamisari, F. 2024. Introduction. Performance, Connectivity and Co-Becomings, in Enacted Relations. Performing Knowledge in an Australian Indigenous Community, New York and Oxford, Berghahn Books pp. 2-18.
Tamisari, F. 2008 I limiti del riconoscimento delle popolazioni indigene australiane. La politica del sentimento e la costruzione della volontà nazionale australiana, in Le identità culturali nei nuovi strumenti UNESCO: un approccio nuovo alla costruzione della pace, a cura di L. Zagato, CEDAM, Padova, pp- 219-245.
Tamisari, F. 2020 Il dolore del lutto e il potere della danza. Continuità e innovazioni culturali nei riti indigeni australiani. in “Le religioni tra frustrazione e gioia” a cura di S. Petrosino, Editoriale Jaca Book, Milano, pp. 145-163.
Thomas, N. 1999 Beginnings and Hierarchies (cap I): From Traditional to Contemporary (cap VI), in Possessions. Indigenous Art/colonial Culture, Thames and Hudson, London, pp. 7-49 e 197-223.
Tuhiwai Smith, L. 2008, The Indigenous Peoples’ Project. Setting a New Agenda, in Decolonising methodologies. Research and Indigenous Peoples, Zed Books, London, pp.107-122.

ARIA, Matteo, 2007a, Cercando nel vuoto. La memoria perduta e ritrovata nella Polinesia Francese, Percorsi di antropologia e cultura popolare n.2, Pisa, Pacini editore.
Berndt R. M. 2004 [1962], An Adjustment movement in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory Australia, Oceania Monograph 54, The University of Sydney, Sydney.
Bos R. 1988, The Dreaming and social change in Arnhem Land, in T. Swain e D. Rose (a cura di), Aboriginal Australians and Christian Missions, The Australian Association for the Study of Religion, Bedford Park, South Australia, pp. 422-360.
Cowlishaw G. 1998, Erasing culture and race: Practicing ‘self-determination’, Oceania 68,3:145-169.
Collmann J. 1988 Fringe-dwellers and welfare. The Aboriginal response to bureaucracy. The University of Queensland Press, St Lucia.
Deger J. 2006, Shimmering screens. Making media in an Aboriginal community, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis.
Deger J. 2013, The jolt of the new: Making video art in Arnhem Land, Culture, Theory and Critique 54,3:355-371.
Deger J. 2014, Gapuwiyak Calling: phone-made media from Arnhem Land, 15 March - 15 August 2014 in associazione con Miyarrka Media e l’Anthropology Museum, University of Queensland, http://www.anthropologymuseum.uq.edu.au/gapuwiyak-calling (ultimo accesso agosto 2017).
de Certeau M. 2001 [1980], L’invenzione del quotidiano, Edizioni del Lavoro, Roma.
Fabian J. 1983, Time and the other: How anthropology makes its object, Columbia University Press, New York.
Favole, A. 2010 Oceania. Isole di Creatività, Bari, Laterza.

S. Feld and K. Basso (a cura di) Senses of place, School of American Research Press, Santa Fe, pp. 13-52.
Foucault M. 1976 Sorvegliare e punire. Nascita della prigione, Einaudi Editore S.p.a., Torino
Hage G. 1998, White nation. Fantasises of white supremacy in a multicultural society, Pluto Press, Sydney.
Hinkson M. 2013, Back to the future: Walpiri encounters with drawing, country and others in the digital age, Culture, Theory and Critique 54,3:301-317.
Lashua B. 2006 The Arts of the remix: Ethnography and rap. Anthropology Matters, 8,2
Povinelli E. 1993, Labor’s lot: The power, history and culture of Aboriginal action, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
Rose D. 1992, Dingo makes us human. Life and land in an Australian Aboriginal culture: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Rose D. 1996, Nourishing terrains. Australian Aboriginal views of landscape and wilderness, Australian Heritage Commission, Canberra.
Paini, A. 2007 Il filo e l’aquilone. I confini della differenzain una società Kanak della Nuova Caledionia, Torino, Le Nuove Muse
Tamisari F. 1999, L’immagine dell'orma. Della cosmologia indigena australiana, Quaderni di Semantica, Cooperativa Libraria Universitaria Editrice Bologna (CLUEB), XX,2:281-310.
Tamisari F. 2002a, Danza e intercorporalita: la lusinga e il pericolo dei complimenti, La ricerca folklorica, 45:89-99.
Tamisari F 2005a, Responsibility of performance. The interweaving of politics and aesthetics in intercultural contexts, Visual Anthropology Review, 21,1:47-62.
Tamisari 2005b, Writing close to dance. Reflexions on an experiment, in E. Mackinlay, D. Collins e S. Owens (a cura di), Aesthetics and experience in music performance, Cambridge Scholars Press, Cambridge, pp.174-203.
Tamisari F. 2006a, Personal acquaintance: Essential individuality and the possibilities of encounters, in T. Lea, E. Kowal and G. Cowlishaw (a cura di), Moving anthropology critical indigenous studies, Darwin University Press, Darwin, pp.18-36.
Tamisari F. 2006b, Le generazioni rubate. La rimozione forzata dei bambini indigeni australiani dalle loro famiglie, Deportate, esuli, profughe. Rivista telematica di studi sulla memoria femminile (DEP), Ca’ Foscari Università Venezia, Venezia, pp.255-272 http:

Students' learning will be verified through an individual or group class presentation, and a written essay as a final exam.

The written final essay must present and discuss a theme dealt with during the course and in the study material gathered in Moodle and in the list of 'furhter readings'. The essay topic must be approved by the lecturer. The essay must be well written and structured and the issue identified int he introduction must be demonstrated with ethnographic examples and theoretical approaches discussed during the course and in the course readings. The essay is not a simple summary of the readings but an opportunity to reflect on specific approaches in order to develop one own critical capacity. The written essay (22.000 characters including spaces and references must be printed (Times New Roman 12), with a 1,5 line spacing and with 2 cm margin. All ideas quoted directly or indirectly in the course and further readings (monographs, articles, book chapters) must be attributed to the author indicating the author's name, publication date and page number. The author-date method is preferred but must be completed by a list of references at the end of the text (in alphabetical order).

Frontal lectures, ppt, students' class presentations and discussions

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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