Spring 2015 Philosophy of Italian Culture

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JAN 13

Introductory Topics

  • Introduction to the Course

JAN 15

  • Gilmour, "Modern Italy"

JAN 20

  • Emmett and Piras, "Girlfriend in a Coma"

JAN 22

Anthropological and Cultural Theory

  • Nanda and Warms, Introduction to Anthropology, Ch 4, "Cultural Anthropology"

JAN 27

  • Richerson and Boyd, Not By Genes Alone, Chapters 1+ 2 (culture, populations, ethnography cultural transmission)
  • Bowman, Honour, Introduction

JAN 29

  • Storey, Chapter 1
  • Diamond, Jared, "How Do Cultures Make Such Big Mistakes?"

FEB 3

More Tools for the Critique of Culture: Marx, Gramsci, Symbolic Anthropology, and Ethnography

  • Marx, in Storey, Reader, p. 58-60
  • Storey, Text, Chapter 4, p. 59-62 (Marx); p. 82-84 (Hegemony)

FEB 5

  • continue discussion of Marx and in Italian context

FEB 10

  • poss. Creban
  • Gramsci, "Common Sense, Language, and Folklore"


FEB 12

continued discussion of Gramsci.


FEB 17

  • Geertz, "Thick Description"
  • Wood, Graeme, "Anthropology Inc"

FEB 19

  • Pia di Bella, Maria, "Name, Blood and Miracles"

FEB 24

  • TBD: critical ethnographic film

FEB 26

  • Midterm Exam

MAR 3

Anomalies of Italian Culture: Unification, Italian "Mentality", the Problem of the South

  • Putnam, historical chapter
  • D'Epirio, "Garibaldi"

MAR 5

  • Putnam "Explaining institutional performance"

MAR 17

  • Viroli, Chapter 4, "The Pre-requisites of Servitude"

MAR 19

  • News on electoral reforms today
  • Ginsbourg, Ch. 4, "Civil Society and Mass Culture"

MAR 24

  • Parks, Chapter 5, 147-194

MAR 26

  • Benvenuti al Sud?

MAR 31

Shame and Honour

  • Gilmore, "Introduction: The Shame of Dishonor"
  • Bettiga-Boukerbout, "Crimes of 'Honour' in the Italian Penal Code"
  • movie, Divorce Italian Style
  • Feminicido Today --



APR 2

  • movie, Ricco and His Brothers

APR 7

  • Zanardo, "Il Corpo delle Donne"
  • Muraro, Lisa, "Toward a Symbolic of Sexual Difference"

APR 9

Popular Culture

  • Storey, Chapter 1, 5-12
  • Gramsci, Popular Culture
  • Bennett, Gramsci and Popular Culture

APR 14

  • movie, Reality
  • Stille, Chapter 3

APR 16

  • movie, Gommorah,
  • Saviano, Gommorah, excerpts

APR 21

  • movie, The Mafia Only Kills in Summer

APR 23

  • Ginsburg, Italy and Discontents, Chapter Six, "Corruption and the Mafia," pp. 179-213

APR 28

  • movie, Slow Food

APR 30

  • Student Presentations

MAY 5

  • Student Presentations / Review

MAY 7

  • Final Exam
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