Syllabus
The lecture aims to present main points of interest of social and cultural anthropology and, more specifically, to touch intersections and convergencies between anthropology and psychology. Cultural and social anthropology will be introduced as a science, that is deeply rooted in empirical research.
Fundamental issues in the history of the discipline will be discussed as well as main theoretical schools before the field revolution of Malinowski and Boas and after. Important questions of economy, power, social structure, ideology, culture will be briefly covered as well as more specific questions of culture and personality, culture and cognition.
Annotation
The lecture aims to present main points of interest of social and cultural anthropology and, more specifically, to touch intersections and convergencies between anthropology and psychology.