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

  • Storey, Chapter 1, p. 1-5
  • Nanda and Warms, Introduction to Anthropology, Ch 4, "Cultural Anthropology"

JAN 27

  • Richerson and Boyd, Not By Genes Alone, Chapters 1
  • Bowman, Honour, "Introduction"

JAN 29

  • Richerson and Boyd, Not By Genes Alone, Chapter 2, only up to page 40.
  • Diamond, Jared, "How Do Cultures Make Such Big Mistakes?"

FEB 3

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

  • Quiz
  • Marx and Engels quotes In Storey, Reader, p. 58-60
  • Storey, Text, Chapter 4, p. 59-62 (Marx);
  • Kellner, Douglas, "Cultural Marxism and Cultural Studies" [1]

FEB 5

  • Quiz
  • Crehan, "Gramsci's life and work"
  • Storey, Chapter 4 82-4
  • Gramsci, "Hegemony, Intellectuals, and the State," 75-80

FEB 10

  • Movie Presentations
  • Watch The Working Class Goes to Heaven

FEB 12

  • Quiz
  • Rapport and Overling, "Thick Description," 349-352, Social and Cultural Anthropology
  • Geertz, "Thick Description"

FEB 17

  • Short Answer in class, over Feb 12.
  • short video, "Puglia" 26 mins.

FEB 19

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

FEB 24

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

FEB 26

  • Quiz
  • Ginsbourg, Ch. 4, "Civil Society and Mass Culture" 94-107
  • Putnam, historical chapter
  • Putnam "Explaining institutional performance"

TBA contemporary articles

MAR 3

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

MAR 5

  • Midterm Exam

MAR 17

  • Movie Presentations
  • Watch Benvenuti al Sud


MAR 19

  • Quiz
  • Gilmour, "Introduction"
  • Parks, Chapter 5, 147-194

MAR 24

Shame and Honour

  • Movie Presentations
  • Gilmore, "Introduction: The Shame of Dishonor"
  • movie, Rocco and His Brothers

MAR 26

  • Quiz
  • Bettiga-Boukerbout, "Crimes of 'Honour' in the Italian Penal Code"


MAR 31

  • Movie Presentations
  • movie, Divorce Italian Style

APR 2

  • Short Answer Question (outside of class on 3/26 and 3/31)
  • Feminicido Today -- links to current news

APR 7

  • no quiz
  • Zanardo, "Il Corpo delle Donne"
  • Muraro, Lisa, "Toward a Symbolic of Sexual Difference"

APR 9

Popular Culture

  • Quiz
  • Storey, Chapter 1, 5-13, Chapter 4 64-72
  • Bennett, Gramsci and Popular Culture, 81-8

APR 14

no quiz
  • Gramsci, Popular Culture

APR 16

  • Quiz
  • Saviano, Gommorah, excerpts
  • Preview of Gomorra in class

APR 21

  • Movie Presentations
  • movie, Gommorah,

APR 23

  • Short Answer
  • Andrews, "Civic renaissance in Sicily," pp. 131-150.
  • Lecture on the State-mafia negotiations

APR 28

  • Movie Presentations
  • movie, The Mafia Only Kills in Summer

APR 30

  • Quiz
  • Watch "Slow Food"and read selections from Andrews "The Slow Food story"

MAY 5

  • Student Presentations / Review

MAY 7

  • Final Exam
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