Università Roma Tre

Through the languages, theories, and methodologies of anthropology, the course enables students to acquire foundational knowledge and analytical tools necessary to develop a critical, autonomous, and reflective understanding of the processes that generate vulnerability, discrimination, and the unequal distribution of social resources (including access to education). On these premises, the course provides anthropological tools for the training of future teachers/educators and for understanding the discriminatory dynamics affecting younger generations.
Specifically, the course offers interpretative frameworks and methodological tools characteristic of anthropology for the analysis of intersecting forms of oppression (intersectionality), with a particular focus on human mobility and the associated social, political, and cultural processes. Anthropological perspectives today serve as a critical lens through which to examine cultural differences and similarities, as well as the social processes that construct belonging, inequality, social hierarchies, and emerging forms of agency and resistance. In this sense, the course equips students with the tools to envision an anti-discriminatory, anti-ethnocentric, inclusive, and community-oriented educational environment.
The Cultural Anthropology course: a) introduces students to anthropological perspectives and the key concepts developed by the discipline from the twentieth century to the present, which have been instrumental in challenging oppression related to gender, race, social class, and culture; b) fosters an understanding of intellectual traditions within their historical and social contexts, thereby enabling students to c) apply such knowledge, theories, and concepts to develop a reflective, independent, and critical awareness of pressing contemporary issues (migration, violence, vulnerability, and the interlocking system of oppressions). The ethnographic method, along with ethnographic case studies, will be employed to encourage participatory engagement with the social processes under investigation.

1. King Charles (2020). La riscoperta dell’umanità. Come un gruppo di antropologi ribelli reinventò le idee di razza, sesso e genere nel XX secolo. Einaudi.

Students who have never studied Cultural Anthropology before may find this textbook useful.
Tassan Manuela (2024). Antropologia per insegnare. Diversità culturale e processi educativi. Zanichelli.


2. Choose two texts from this list.

Altin Roberta (a cura) (2022). FUORICLASSE. Migranti e figli di migranti (dis)persi nel sistema scolastico di un’area di frontiera. Disponibile in formato pdf alla pagina https://eut.units.it/it/catalogo/fuoriclasse-migranti-e-figli-di-migranti-dispersi-nel-sistema-scolastico-di-unarea-di-frontiera/5505

Benadusi Mara, (2017), La scuola in pratica. Prospettive antropologiche sull’educazione. Editpress

Piasere Leonardo (a cura) (2004) Antropologia. Numero monografico: Scuola
Essays at this link
https://www.ledijournals.com/ojs/index.php/antropologia/issue/view/10

Pinelli Barbara (a cura) (2013). Antropologia. Numero monografico: Migrazioni e asilo politico.
Essays at this link https://www.ledijournals.com/ojs/index.php/antropologia/issue/view/20

Altin Roberta e Pinelli Barbara (2024). Archivio antropologico mediterraneo. Numero monografico: Sofferenze cumulative, memorie depositate. Corpi, luoghi, diaspore
Essays (Altin Roberta; Antinori Silvia; Buffon Veronica; Pinelli Barbara; Vitturini Elia) at thil link
https://journals.openedition.org/aam/

Tabet Paola, (2016), La pelle giusta. Disponibile in Ebook in StreetLib.