The Anthropological Studies curriculum is aimed at studying complex cultural and social phenomena and transformations through the acquisition of ethnographic research methods. Particular attention is devoted to documenting and analysing the dynamics of encounter and clash in cross-cultural contexts, continuities and discontinuities between pasts and presents, and practices of response and re-signification in colonial and post-colonial contexts.
Research areas
- Ecosystems, landscapes, and environmental anthropology
- Urban, migration, and labor anthropology
- Indigenous and area studies
- Religious dynamics and spirituality
- Anthropology of body, gender, and health
- Anthropology of violence, conflict, and institutions
- Ethnographies and research methodologies
- Anthropology of colonial and post-colonial processes
- Museums and heritage-making processes
- Anthropology, ritual, art, and performance
