European Master Course TEMA European territories: identity and development The 2-year-long (120 ECTS) European Master Course TEMA European UNIVERSITA’ DEGLI STUDI DI CATANIA FACOLTA’ DI LINGUE territories (civilisation, nation, region, city): identity and development proposes E LETTERATURE STRANIERE the analysis of political use and scientific representation of territorial units RAGUSA (civilization, nation, region, city) in an interdisciplinary, research-based curriculum. Organised in four major modules: civilization, nation, region and city, that Prof. Philip Carl Salzman represent four research scales, as well as four different approaches to historical, political, social and cultural issues of space and those of territory, Understanding Cultural Differences: the TEMA Master provides students with an in-depth understanding of European cohesion policy and regional development emphasising on legal Theory and Method in Cultural Anthropology framework and scientific analysis. Saluti Nunzio Zago Preside della Facoltà di Lingue e letterature straniere Introduce Philip Carl Salzman is Professor of Anthropology at McGill University in Melania Nucifora Montreal, Canada. In 2010, he was Houtan Senior Visiting Fellow in the Ricercatore in Storia contemporanea - Coordinatore aggiunto Master TEMA Anthropology of Iran, at St. Andrews University, Scotland. In 2011-12 he is Open Society Institute International Fellow for Anthropology at the American Intervengono University of Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan, and Erasmus Mundus Scholar at the University of Catania, Sicily. He has carried out ethnographic field research in Natale Patania Iranian Baluchistan, Gujarat and Rajasthan in India, and Sardinia, Italy. His Coordinatore amministrativo Master TEMA publications include The Anthropology of Real Life: Events in Human Experience (1999), Black Tents of Baluchistan (2000, winner of the Premio Lisa Edelsward Pitrè–Salomone Marino), Understanding Culture: An Introduction to PhD in Anthropology - McGill University Anthropological Theory (2001), Pastoralists: Equality, Hierarchy, and the State (2004), Culture and Conflict in the Middle East (2008), Postcolonial Theory and the Arab-Israel Conflict (edited with Donna Robinson Divine, Venerdì 18 maggio, ore 10.30 2008), Thinking Anthropologically, 3rd Edition (edited with Pat Rice, 2010), - Aula 2 - and Classic Comparative Anthropology (2011, dated 2012). .