ETMB67 Italian folklore and ethnology

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2015
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. Giuseppe Maiello, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Alena Křížová, Ph.D.
Department of European Ethnology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Martina Maradová
Supplier department: Department of European Ethnology – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
each odd Thursday 15:50–17:25 J31
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 60 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 1/60, only registered: 0/60
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Italian ethnology was first institutionalized in the 1869-1870 years, when in Florence Pietro Mantegazza (1831-1910) founded the Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology, journal "Archivio per l'Antropologia e l'etnologia" and the Italian Society of Anthropology and Ethnology. However, the main representatives of the scientific research in the field of the Italian folk traditions, became Giuseppe Pitre (1841-1916) and his followers Raffaele Corso (1885-1965) and Giuseppe Cocchiara (1904-1965). Another major figure associated with interwar Italian ethnology was the religionist Raffaele Pettazzoni (1883-1959), which mainly criticised the Italian ethnological cultural-historical path, ie the Wilhelm Schmidt's followers (1868-1954). The top of Italian ethnology was reached after the Second World War thanks to the work of Ernesto de Martino (1908-1965) and his disciples, who still today theach at the Italian universities. A characteristic feature of De Martino was the focus on the multidisciplinary ethnographic research. De Martino conducted field investigations in the company of six other specialists (a phisician, a psychologist, a religionist, an anthropologist, and ethnomusicologist and a documentary-filmmaker). Italian ethnology from its beginnings was characterized not only by systematic collecting of folk songs, fairy tales, nursery rhymes, folk customs, way of living, etc., but also by its interpretative propensities: starting with cultural diffusion of the folk games (Pitre) to the crisis of exhistence of the decaying rural communities (De Martino). The course will provide a detailed analysis of the Italian ethnology and what Italians scholars define as demo-ethno-anthropology, ie the study of folk traditions. Will be described in the details the differences between the Italian cultural and ethnographic regions (with special emphasis on the Italian South) and also the Italian theoretical contribution to the European Ethnology. A special class will be devoted to the Italian interpretation of Slavic folklore traditions.
Syllabus
  • General political-geographical characteristics of Italy
  • From free ethnographers to the institutionalization of the discipline
  • Sicilian folk tradition in the research of Giuseppe Pitre and Giuseppe Cocchiara
  • Calabrian folk tradition by Raffaele Corso
  • Sardinian folk tradition and approach to ethnology Raffaela Pettazzoni and Alberto Maria Cirese's approach to ethnology
  • Evel Gasparini and his interpretation of Slavic folk traditions
  • Magic and southern Italy by Ernesto de Martino
  • Tarantism in Apulia
  • Folk culture of Campania and the Alfonso Maria di Nola's studies
  • Mafia, revenge and analysis of the Italian criminal scene in Luigi Maria Lombardi-Satriani's works
  • Last Ernesto de Martino'followers and the contemporary Italian demo-ethno-anthropology
Literature
    required literature
  • DE MARTINO, Ernesto. Magický svět : prolegomena k dějinám magična. Translated by Kateřina Vinšová. Vyd. 1. Praha: Argo, 2002, 293 s. ISBN 8072034804. info
Teaching methods
lectures, class discussion
Assessment methods
oral exam
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
Information on the per-term frequency of the course: jeden semestr.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2014, Spring 2017.
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