Università Roma Tre

THE COURSE PROPOSES A SURVEY OF THE THEMES AND PROBLEMS OF CULTURAL AND SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY, WITH PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE REALITIES OF GLOBALISATION. AFTER HAVING RETRACED SOME OF THE MAIN POINTS OF RESEARCH - THE CONCEPT OF CULTURE, THE OVERCOMING OF "RACE", RELATIVISM/ETHNOCENTRISM, ETHNIC IDENTITY, THE ANALYSIS OF THE HISTORICAL-SOCIAL PROCESSES OF CONTACT THAT LEAD FROM THE COLONIAL SITUATION TO THE CURRENT MIGRATORY REALITIES, TWO THEMATIC LINES WILL BE EXPLORED, THE FIRST ONE DEDICATED TO THE PROBLEMS LINKED TO THE TRANSFORMATION OF URBAN CONTEXTS IN A MULTICULTURAL SENSE AND THE SECOND ONE CONNECTED TO THE EXPERIENCE OF CONTEMPORARY BODIES, IN THEIR DOUBLE GUISE OF PRACTICES AND SYMBOLS.