GENERAL PART

1. Introduction to the theory and history of anthropological thought
a. Objectives and methodologies of cultural anthropology
b. The holistic approach; the ideological system and the expressive system; the vision of the world
c. Areas of cultural anthropology (cultural traits; kinship and social stratification; contact between cultures; verbal and non-verbal communication; food systems; economic systems; power and authority; organizations and institutions; belief systems; myth; creativity and play)
d. The individual and culture: otherness, diversity and identity
e. The human sciences: psychology, anthropology, sociology. Areas of study and peculiarities
f. The concept of "culture": descriptive, historical, normative, psychological and genetic definitions; psychology and culture
g. Culture, cultures and civilizations
h. The environmental context of cultural interaction: environment, ecosystem and cultural ecology, nature, landscape, space and genres of space, cognitive horizon, place - Nature vs. culture; natural vs. artificial
i. Human communities: humanity, concept of "race", culture, population, people, nation, organization/collectivity, community, aggregate vs. group, social stratification, family, individual/person
j. The linguistic classification of cultures: settlement, subgroup, ethnic group, subfamily, family, philum
k. The sciences of culture: definition of the concepts of "ethnography", "ethnology" and "anthropology". Ethnography as a heuristic moment of anthropological research. The concept of ethnos. The concept of "ethnic group" and its use. Hegemon vs. subordinate. The concept of «folklore» and the «popular world»
l. Relationships and interactions between culture and "society": aggregates and groups. Aggregate phenomena and group phenomena. The main types of social bond. The generation and potential of a group. Classification of groups from a cultural point of view. The dual. Entity
m. Ethnocentrism and cultural relativism: emic vs. ethic; the local classification system; examples of local classification systems taken from field research (Bali and Laos)
n. The body and the external world: smell, taste, sight, hearing, touch; the dynamics of perceptions; the limits of knowledge; the domestication of the senses; individual sensations and collective representations; the cultural processing of perceptions
o. The "individual" and culture: perception, cognition, emotion, motivation, personality, ethos
p. The concept of "ethnic group"; ethnicisms; definition of the main entries of the dictionary of ethnicisms: ethnosciences, ethnohistory, ethnomedicine.

2. Introduction to sources and field research
a. Introduction to sources and field research: the constitution of research; the value of the working hypotheses; the creation of the documentary plan; the anthropological actors, the test and the retest; the creation of the interpretative plan; description, deduction and introspection; the correlation table of the research themes (constant and variables); the conclusions (thesis)
b. Sources: and oral sources (formalized and non-formalized); life history; tradition; sound and visual sources; written sources; quantitative sources; the interaction of sources
c. The anthropological interview: the choice of informants; the place and methods of the interview; the cultural position of the researcher in relation to the informant; participatory observation; the value of linguistic and ideological commonality
d. The basic elements of culture: the cultural trait, the cultural complex; the cultural area; the experience of the Human Relations Area Files; material culture and intercultural research
e. The ethnographic approach: form, word, function, meaning, value, context

3. The meeting between cultures
a. Models and methods of acculturation: cultures and subcultures; psychological acculturation; the cultural strategies of individuals
b. Cultures in exchange situations (exchange model): the mechanisms of cultural transmis