Anthropology

This course is part of the Laurea Magistrale program and is intended for advanced level student. Enrolments is by consent of the instructor. At the end of the course students acknowledge that when an asset is musealized, it needs special processes: it must be recognized, it must be cured, and it needs special care before and after its entrance in the museum. Students acquire understanding of museography and museology as theory and practice of the care and interpretation of heritage. Students are acquainted with the computational processes involved in the discipline, with a focus on virtual museum, and digital curation.

This course is about travel and cultural encounters, the ways in which these experiences are recorded, and the exploration of the significance of such records through a journey around Trinity Library collections and students' own personal memories. The course introduces students to the methodologies applied to the analysis of travel writing in its various forms (e.g. historical narratives, autobiographical memoirs, travel fiction) and to the analysis of visual and material objects. Primary material are drawn, where possible, from the Library’s collections of remarkable texts and objects from around the world. Students engage with appropriately selected items available for viewing in person or in digital form on the Trinity Digital Collections website.  

The course offers students “Danish Perspectives” to a wide range of fields within arts and the humanities. Students gain an overview of Danish history, but also Danish culture and cultural history. Throughout the course students discuss how one can describe the Danes as a people – while at the same time being critical as to whether it is possible to determine a people in such a stereotypical way at all. The student is given a general introduction to various perspectives of Danish culture ranging from literature, music, film and TV to the narrative culture of the Vikings, the Danish history of slavery and the perceived particularities of Danish identity and Nordic “exceptionalism”.

This course introduces material culture studies including their history, comparative study of technology, theories of artifacts, art and museum practice, and theory.

This course introduces different aspects of material and visual culture, and focuses on the relationship between people and "objects."  Lectures cover the object, the museum, the artwork, and the image, decolonization and object repatriation, art and agency, as well as photography within the digital age. 

The course provides an overview of the last 200,000 years of human history with a focus on diet and health and deals with different aspects of the relationship between mankind and the environment. The concept of transition is discussed with reference to osteological, archaeological, and historical source material on the Neolithic revolution, urbanization, and industrialization. To understand the population growth from a few individuals to 7 billion people in less than 200,000 years, the course employs an interdisciplinary perspective interweaving biological, social, and economic developments and climate change.