bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Reclaiming the public university in Wisconsin
Authors: Heatherington Tracey
Published: June 2024

This commentary discusses the shift to austerity in the University of Wisconsin System, in the context of Wisconsin’s urban, public doctoral research university in the city of Milwaukee. Critical discourses based on “the Wisconsin Idea” insist upon the necessity for both academic freedom and public support to higher education.
Teaching in crisis: Anthropology under structural adjustment
Authors: Narotzky Susana
Published: June 2024

In this paper I want to address the pressure of structural adjustment policies on teaching and learning anthropology. I will base my thoughts on the Spanish case but the reflexion is applicable to many other countries in Europe. The decline in public funding and the increase in fees have transformed the meaning of higher education. Increasingly, productivity criteria and ranking measures become the guides to university investments and social valorisation of competing disciplines in the public eye.
Un nuovo numero, una nuova veste grafica
Authors: Zerilli Filippo M.
Published: June 2024

Presentazione del nuovo numero del Direttore della rivista.
James G. Carrier, Don Kalb, eds, Anthropologies of class: Power, practice and inequality, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2015, pp. 248
Authors: Pusceddu Antonio Maria
Published: June 2024

Recensione di James G. Carrier, Don Kalb, eds, Anthropologies of Class: Power, Practice and Inequality, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2015, pp. 248.
For Giulio Angioni: The word, the hand, the heart
Authors: Solinas Pier Giorgio
Published: June 2024

In memory of Giulio Angioni (1939-2017).
Miscuglio figurale: Alle origini della ritrattistica antropologica ottocentesca
Authors: Baldi Alberto
Published: June 2024

Quando nella seconda metà dell’Ottocento, dall’Europa, agli Stati Uniti, alla Russia, si va coagulando un interesse per l’uso della fotografia in ambito antropologico in virtù della sua supposta obiettività non sono ancora del tutto chiari e definiti gli specifici campi d’impiego e, di conseguenza, neppure metodologie euristiche, modalità tecniche di ripresa, stilemi e convenzioni figurative. Si spazia dalla foto antropometrica ad una ritrattistica etnografica e folklorica firmata al contempo da antropologi ma pure da viaggiatori, fotoamatori, militari, fotografi professionisti alla ricerca di soggetti esotici che alimentano, appunto, un miscuglio figurale, contemporaneamente attraversato da venature scientifiche, commerciali, artistiche, alla fin fine utile a tutti, miscuglio che, poco alla volta, pare ribadirsi in relazione ad alcuni topoi prevalenti, in primis al ritratto di origini pittoriche, ma variamente e continuamente declinato e reinterpretato.
Colmare il buco della povertà: Le occupazioni come oggetto di analisi sociale
Authors: Vereni Piero
Published: June 2024

Nota critica di Freia Anders, Alexander Sedlmaier, eds, Public Goods versus Economic Interests. Global Perspectives on the History of Squatting, London, Routledge, 2016, pp. 318; Pierpaolo Mudu, Sutapa Chattopahyay, eds, Migration, Squatting and Radical Autonomy, London, Routledge, 2017, pp. 294.
Stavroula Pipyrou, The grecanici of southern Italy: Governance, violence, and minority politics, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016, pp. 246
Authors: Li Causi Luciano
Published: June 2024

Recensione di Stavroula Pipyrou, The grecanici of southern Italy: Governance, violence, and minority politics, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016, pp. 246.
The national project for Roma, Sinti and Caminanti children inclusion: A Socio-Anthropological overview
Authors: Persico Greta , Sarcinelli Alice Sophie
Published: June 2024

The article develops a critical, applied and interdisciplinary perspective, to contrast anti-Gypsyism.  The research has been carried out within the “National Project for Inclusion and Integration of Roma children, Sinti and Caminanti”, realized during 2013/14 in the city of Milan. The theoretical frame refers to different dimensions, respectively represented by the paradigm of contrast of anti-Gypsyism, the researches focused on educational policies towards Roma children and the inclusive education theory. Within this framework, the article analyses the assumptions on which the whole intervention was based and will provide an ethnographic account of the training activities carried out with the contribution of the authors in two schools in Milan. Based on these data, the article highlights the elements of continuity and discontinuity in educational policy toward Roma children and their families implemented in the city in the last years. The article analyses eventually the results of the training that was carried out, highlighting the effects produced by the interaction between research and reality. The analysis aims at revealing that anti-Gypsysm is, paradoxically, necessary for the emergence of the opposite paradigm (“contrasting anti-Gypsyism”), within which discourses are produced, funds are allocated, and the projects and careers of “opponents to anti-Gypsyism” are advanced.
Profit, prestige and the liberal arts in the “neoliberal” academy: Observations from Canada
Authors: Smart Alan
Published: June 2024

I argue that the Canadian academy, at least, is not neoliberal in the sense of acting as a profit-seeking corporation. Rather it serves the agenda of the corporate sector while operating under what is better seen as a symbolic economy of prestige and status.
Learning away from neoliberalism: Lines of connection towards other worlds
Authors: Shear Boone W.
Published: June 2024

In this essay, I envision the university, not simply as a discreet institution with formal boundaries to attend to and defend from neoliberal and conservative assaults, but as a location of possibility from which to locate and advance projects that connect students and ourselves to the possibility of other economic worlds.
Environment and tourism in fragile territories: The case of humid zones in Sardinia
Authors: Lai Franco , Sistu Giovanni
Published: June 2024

During the 20th century two main interventions have been intended for coastal wetlands in Sardinia. Throughout the first part of the century Sardinian wetlands have been targeted for drainage to obtain productive agricultural land. At the end of the forties, wetlands were drained in order to eradicate malaria. From the second half of the 20th century ponds become significant also for nature conservation and tourism development (see the case of Doñana in Spain and the Camargue in France). In Sardinia wetlands are important as avifauna habitats (see the Ramsar Convention), tourism attractions and environmental conservation sites. In this paper we will present the process of tourist promotion of wetlands, the opportunities and the risks of this process with some empirical cases.
In/formalization
Authors: Smart Alan , Smart Josephine , Zerilli (eds) Filippo M.
Published: June 2024

Addressing a variety of locations and subjects across several social contexts and countries, this forum intends to stimulate novel ways of conceptualizing the inevitable interpenetration and entanglement of formalization and informalization as two interlinked social processes. Rather than proposing a new coherent definition of “informality”, we propose to consider “in/formalization” as a space of practice and reflection which is crucial for engaging with contemporary economy, law and politics and their current local and global articulations and scenarios. The forum features contributions by Stamatis Amarianakis, Lenka Brunclíková, Dolores Koenig, B. Lynne Milgram, Sarah Muir, Antonio Maria Pusceddu, Alan Smart, Mechthild von Vacano, Filippo M. Zerilli & Julie Trappe.
Informality within government agencies tasked with controlling informal economic practices
Authors: Smart Alan
Published: June 2024

The trend to dualism in the study of in/formality means that we usually neglect informality within government, usually seen as the locus of formality, but in practice usually relying on informal practices to get things done. This commentary uses archival documents on colonial Hong Kong to challenge this duality.
Juan Javier Rivera Andía, La vaquerita y su canto: Una antropología de las emociones, Buenos Aires, Rumbo Sur / Ethnographica, 2016, pp. 192
Authors: Branca Domenico
Published: June 2024

Recensione di Juan Javier Rivera Andía, La vaquerita y su canto: Una antropología de las emociones, Buenos Aires, Rumbo Sur / Ethnographica, 2016, pp. 192.
Pizzini: About public uses of the word anthropology
Authors: Puccini Sandra
Published: June 2024

The article surveys “snippets”, gleaned over the last year from Italian newspaper and magazine articles, in which the words “anthropology” and “anthropological”, often loosely used, are to be found. The survey makes no claims to completeness. Such generalized use of terms with a specific meaning seems to have intensified with the simultaneous decline in various fields (publishing, academia and institutions) of the demo-ethno-anthropological disciplines. The article directs an ironic gaze on current problems which our professional community needs to tackle seriously.
The right to certify? A grassroot response to standardization
Authors: Koensler Alexander , Loce Mandes Fabrizio , Zappa Andrea
Published: June 2024

Le recenti politiche della standardizzazione messe in atto in campo agroalimentare incidono in maniera profonda su come si definiscono agricoltori, su che cosa è considerato alimento “sicuro” e su come è gestito il paesaggio agrario. Spesso percepite dai soggetti in questione, come strati di complicazioni kafkiane, esse nascondono tuttavia interessi politici specifici. Il Peasant Activism Project indaga queste politiche della trasparenza, intese come un modo di ristrutturazione del controllo sociale attraverso pratiche, come certificazioni e standardizzazioni, incentrate intorno all’imperativo morale della trasparenza. Improntato da una prospettiva di antropologia politica, l’obiettivo del progetto è quello di mettere in luce gli effetti sulle relazioni sociali che si nascondono dietro l’apparenza oggettiva del paradigma di trasparenza, e di comprendere in che modo si rimodellano le relazioni di potere. In questo senso, il progetto mira a ridefinire le prospettive classiche dell’antropologia alimentare rimasta prevalentemente incasellata in una prospettiva culturalista. In questo report di ricerca presentiamo una conversazione circolare e collaborativa, incentrata sulle garanzie partecipative, viste come una riscoperta di forme orizzontali e neo-umanistiche di fronte alle politiche della standardizzazione, e che fanno parte di una più ampia tendenza di rivitalizzazione delle pratiche alternative di certificazione.
Città di Dio, città delle donne: Etnografia del quotidiano nella città sufi di Touba, Senegal
Authors: Zingari Guido Nicolás
Published: June 2024

La città santa di Touba, Senegal, è un califfato sufi governato dalla confraternita dei murid. Il clan del fondatore, C. A. Bamba Mbacké, vi ha istituito un sistema politico e religioso che ruota intorno a numerosi lignaggi marabuttici, a specifiche istituzioni rituali come a un’intensa attività economica che fa di Touba la seconda città più estesa e dinamica del paese. Le grandi narrazioni e gli spazi di culto di questa imponente metropoli spirituale restituiscono l’immagine di una città disegnata e dominata dalle sue guide religiose. Un’etnografia del quotidiano ridimensiona la centralità del patto sociale e cultuale su cui si fonda il loro potere e sui cui si sono concentrati tutti gli studi storico-antropologici dedicati alla confraternita. Una tale etnografia mostra tutta l’importanza delle case e delle famiglie dei marabutti nella vita della città e delle reti che intesse fuori dalle sue mura. Intese come veri e propri luoghi di vita, al di là delle rappresentazioni religiose, questi contesti rivelano un sorprendente e irriducibile protagonismo delle donne nella fabbricazione e la trasformazione dei paesaggi e dei legami che costituiscono l’infrastruttura stessa di questa città di Dio.
Leo by tribu Juda: Story of a lion and a “topos”
Authors: Paganelli Leonardo
Published: June 2024

This article outlines the story of the mythical “Lion of Judah’s tribe”, from the Hebrew Scriptures (Genesis, Kings, Chronicles) up to the Gospels and St. John’s Book of Revelation, from St. Jerome’s Latin version of the Bible up to St. Anthony’s formula of exorcism. Particular attention is paid to the personage of Ras Tafari (1892-1975) and to his projections in Mussolini’s speeches, in Ian Fleming’s spy-stories, in Ethiopian culture and in Jamaican folklore: he was deemed to be the descendent of King Solomon’s and Queen Sheba’s love; Rasta movement considered him the new Messiah.
David MacDougall, Cinema Transculturale, introduction by Lucien Castaing-Taylor, translated by Rossella Ragazzi, Nuoro, Edizioni ISRE, 2015, pp. 340
Authors: Tiragallo Felice
Published: June 2024

Book review of David MacDougall, Cinema Transculturale, introduction by Lucien Castaing-Taylor, translated by Rossella Ragazzi, Nuoro, Edizioni ISRE, 2015, pp. 340.
Roberto Malighetti, Angela Molinari, Il metodo e l’antropologia: Il contributo di una scienza inquieta, Milano, Raffaello Cortina Editore, 2016, pp. 293
Authors: Schirripa Pino
Published: June 2024

Recensione di Roberto Malighetti, Angela Molinari, Il metodo e l’antropologia: Il contributo di una scienza inquieta, Milano, Raffaello Cortina Editore, 2016, pp. 293.
Elisabetta Gnecchi-Ruscone, Anna Paini, eds, Tides of innovation in Oceania: Value, materiality and place, Canberra, Australia National University Press, 2017, pp. 347
Authors: Favole Adriano
Published: June 2024

Elisabetta Gnecchi-Ruscone, Anna Paini, eds, Tides of innovation in Oceania: Value, materiality and place, Canberra, Australia National University Press, 2017, pp. 347.
Antonio Gramsci: Towards an ethnographic Marxism
Authors: Crehan Kate
Published: June 2024

“Culture” was always for Gramsci an important aspect of political struggle. In the Prison Notebooks he insists on the need for «a cultural front alongside the merely economic and merely political ones» (Gramsci 1995: 345). We should note, however, that the concept of culture we find in the notebooks is rather different from that of mainstream anthropology (see Crehan 2002). At the same time Gramsci’s approach to culture and the relation of culture to history can be seen as informed by an ethnographic sensibility, which is always determined to seek out, and take seriously, the narratives others use to make sense of their world and navigate their way through it. To clarify the nature of the ethnographic sensibility we find in the notebooks and the letters from prison, the article compares this sensibility to that of Bronisław Malinowski as laid down in the famous “Introduction” to Argonauts of the Western Pacific (termed by George Stocking, anthropology’s mythic charter). The article argues that Gramsci’s ethnographically-informed approach can help anthropologists and others trace out the complicated passage between the material structures that shape the basic social and political landscapes within which people live, and the narratives by which they live. And that understanding this is a crucial foundation for any effective political movement that would bring about a more just and fair world.
Fieldwork and changing scales: The analysis of different economic spaces
Authors: Siniscalchi Valeria
Published: June 2024

How does the construction of fieldwork change when we expand beyond the “village” (in the sense of Malinowski), to investigate and assemble different scales of analysis? In this paper, I explore the role of fieldwork as built and delimited by specific, historically and theoretically situated research practices, making use of evolutions in the framework of my approach to “economic spaces” during my early fieldwork in the south of Italy. I look back at the intellectual environment of anthropology in Rome during the 1980s, paying attention to the kind of fieldwork that we conducted within one of the traditions of Italian anthropological studies. I then examine the “expansion” of fieldwork from my own experience during the study of the economic aspects of social phenomena.
Dimitris Dalakoglou, The road: An ethnography of (im)mobility, space, and cross-border infrastructures in the Balkans, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2017, pp. 203
Authors: Iancu Bogdan
Published: June 2024

Book review of Dimitris Dalakoglou, The road: An ethnography of (im)mobility, space, and cross-border infrastructures in the Balkans, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2017, pp. 203.
Gianni Dore, Amministrare l’esotico: L’etnografia pratica dei funzionari e dei missionari nell’Eritrea coloniale, Padova, Cleup, 2017, pp. 318
Authors: Fichera Fabio
Published: June 2024

Book review of Gianni Dore, Amministrare l’esotico: L’etnografia pratica dei funzionari e dei missionari nell’Eritrea coloniale, Padova, Cleup, 2017, pp. 318.
The Taliban and the humanitarian soldier: Configurations of freedom and humanity in Afghanistan
Authors: De Lauri Antonio
Published: June 2024

Humanitarian wars are a primary means of globally affirming a specific model of humanity, built according to the cultural, moral, and economic standards of Western democracies. How are forms of humanity produced in the context of humanitarian war in Afghanistan? How are notions of freedom mobilized? How does the idea of a prospective humanity relate to the use of military force? In an attempt to reflect on the different configurations of freedom and humanity that emerged in the context of recent Afghanistan conflicts and international interventions, this article addresses the perspective of two key figures: the Taliban and the humanitarian soldier. Building on narratives such as poetry, interviews, and conversations conducted during fieldwork, this angle allows us to observe the complexity of the Afghan humanitarian theatre in a way that goes beyond mere assessments of political and economic interests, revealing a fragment of global contemporaneity that is crucial for understanding how processes of producing humanity combine with war and humanitarian efforts.
Axé in movement in the religious market: Umbanda in decline, candomblé in ascension
Authors: Prandi Reginaldo
Published: June 2024

The article describes a peculiar dynamics of the Brazilian religious market: the rise and the decline of the cults of African origin. According to the data of several censuses, from 1940 to 2010, beside a slight, but constant, decline of Catholic followers, there was at first a vertiginous rise of umbanda, an “extremely Brazilian” syncretism, then a re-discovery of candomblé, considered as a specifically “afro” cult, and finally a dramatic loss of believers, due to various reasons. Primarily the aggressiveness of the Evangelical churches, which regards the “afro” deities as the representation of the devil; the extraordinary economic means of the same sects that are able to monopolize the media; the proverbial tolerance, the flexibility and the tendency of including instead of fighting different creeds which is typical of the polytheisms; these features are absolutely inadequate to face such a competitive religious market.
Questo numero: Violenza di genere, guerre umanitarie, cure mediche transnazionali e autodenominazioni romanes
Authors: Zerilli Filippo M.
Published: June 2024

Presentazione del nuovo numero del Direttore della rivista.
Recovering the sense of sight: Berardino Palumbo’s vision for Italian anthropology’s possible redemption
Authors: Blim Michael
Published: June 2024

Comment on Berardino Palumbo, Lo strabismo della DEA: Antropologia, accademia e società in Italia, Palermo, Edizioni Museo Pasqualino, 2018, pp. 289.
Di fantasmi teorici e chimere etnografiche
Authors: Palumbo Berardino
Published: June 2024

Risposta ai commenti di Mara Benadusi, Michael Blim, Riccardo Ciavolella, Caterina di Pasquale, Adriano Favole, Noelle Molé Liston, Ivan Severi and Valeria Siniscalchi su Berardino Palumbo, Lo strabismo della DEA: Antropologia, accademia e società in Italia, Palermo, Edizioni Museo Pasqualino, 2018, pp. 289.
Dimitris Dalakoglou, Georgios Agelopoulos, eds, Critical times in Greece: Anthropological engagements with the crisis, New York, Routledge, 2018, pp. 277
Authors: Amarianakis Stamatis
Published: June 2024

Book review of Dimitris Dalakoglou, Georgios Agelopoulos, eds, Critical times in Greece: Anthropological engagements with the crisis, New York, Routledge, 2018, pp. 277.
Andrea Ravenda, Carbone: Inquinamento industriale, salute e politica a Brindisi, Milano, Meltemi, 2018, pp. 207
Authors: Pusceddu Antonio Maria
Published: June 2024

Recensione di Andrea Ravenda, Carbone: Inquinamento industriale, salute e politica a Brindisi, Milano, Meltemi, 2018, pp. 207.
Annamaria Rivera, La città dei gatti: Antropologia animalista a Essaouira, Bari, Dedalo, 2016, pp. 200
Authors: Bachis Francesco
Published: June 2024

Recensione di Annamaria Rivera, La città dei gatti: Antropologia animalista a Essaouira, Bari, Dedalo, 2016, pp. 200.
Jaume Franquesa, Power struggles: Dignity, value, and renewable energy frontier in Spain, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2018, pp. 264
Authors: Ravenda Andrea
Published: June 2024

Recensione di Jaume Franquesa, Power struggles: Dignity, value, and renewable energy frontier in Spain, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2018, pp. 264.
Positive ideologies ain’t enough! (Dis)junctions and paradoxes in minority language protection
Authors: Decarli Giorgia
Published: June 2024

In 2018, I conducted research on the application of protection measures for two minority language groups (Cimbrian and Mocheno) in Northern Italian schools. The study aimed at describing linguistic learning programs but it slowly turned into something more. The anthropological holistic perspective unveiled profound contradictions and paradoxes in the implementation of minority language policies. Such discrepancies suggest that law can be both a “present and absent” social actor that influences reality in non-immediately perceptible ways. On the one side, purposes of a legislative manifesto can be soundlessly inhibited by bureaucrats’ deliberate inaction or lack of competence. On the other side, an inhibited legislative text still produces undetectable effects and ontologically impacts on individuals. Consequently, positive ideologies ain’t enough if little is known about what happens in everyday operational terms and this cannot be ignored, especially by those who are sincere in their support for linguistic and educational rights. This article endorses a critique of ‘the justice possible through law’ upheld by early law and society research.
L’autolesionismo nel CPR Brunelleschi di Torino: Campo, agency, soggettivazione
Authors: Manghi Nicola
Published: June 2024

I Centri di Permanenza per il Rimpatrio (CPR) sono luoghi che hanno ricevuto poca attenzione da parte delle scienze sociali. Questo contributo si focalizza sul tema delle condotte autolesionistiche, unanimemente riferite come assai frequenti dagli osservatori, e si propone d’individuare le condizioni che permettano di metterne in risalto la politicità. Tali condizioni saranno delineate, da un lato, tramite l’analisi del sistema CPR, e, dall’altro, per mezzo di un riesame critico dei concetti di “campo” e “agency”, con riferimento obbligato ai lavori di Giorgio Agamben e Michel Foucault. Se questi luoghi – quanto mai “d’eccezione” – sembrano costringere massimamente le possibilità delle persone che vi sono trattenute, abolendo in apparenza il campo del politico, la condotta autolesionistica, qualunque siano le motivazioni che soggettivamente la sostengono, individua il cuore biopolitico di tali istituzioni, rivelando così la propria intrinseca e “oggettiva” politicità.
Not even a word: Politics of speech and silence in Palestinian memories
Authors: Rawash Sara
Published: June 2024

This article explores the memories of female Palestinian former political prisoners, via a rethinking of the interrogation moment as liminal space. This arena reveals and triggers productive processes of recognition of self and other, construction of meaning, and resistance strategies by reproducing a mode of remembering that can transcend the yoke of “victimisation” and defeat. I aim to acknowledge the terminology that prisoners use – or refuse – to describe themselves and their “being-in-the-world” and to explore the wide range of meanings involved. In this context silence, the act of not confessing during the interrogation, can be read as a microcosm of values that is not reducible to traumatic discourses, a categorisation that risks obscuring the social, cultural and political frame in which it is shaped.
Rwandan gukuna trouble: Femocracy, feminisms and critical anthropology
Authors: Fusaschi Michela
Published: June 2024

This article analyses the ritual gukuna (i.e. the elongation of the labia minora) in Rwanda and among the Rwandan diaspora in Italy. This practice – along with the kunyaza (male sexual technique) – is expected to increase sexual pleasure. When I started fieldwork(in the late 1990s), the gukuna could be seen as a secret of female sexuality. Since the mid-2000s, new subjectivities started to emerge, with the introduction of gender-sensitive policies in the post-genocide context and with the rise of state feminism and a femocratic class. Furthermore, the movie Sacred water (2016) revealed the gukuna to the broader public, as a mystery of female ejaculation. Yet, according to WHO the gukuna remains a genital mutilation that must be “eradicated”. Properly understood, gukuna reveals and challenges the culturalist and victimizing assumptions of the hegemonic representations of both FGM and the “African women”, highlighting the continuities between the moralities of colonialism and humanitarianism, and some feminist trends, now locally incorporated. The article aims at deconstructing the gender mainstreaming discourse around gukuna as a “harmful traditional practice”, in order to reflect on gender in Rwandan contemporary politics.
Alessandro Mancuso, Altre persone: Antropologia, visioni del mondo e ontologie indigene, Milano, Mimesis, 2018, pp. 307
Authors: Nubile Giovanni
Published: June 2024

Recensione di Alessandro Mancuso, Altre persone: Antropologia, visioni del mondo e ontologie indigene, Milano, Mimesis, 2018, pp. 307.
For Vintilă
Authors: Mesnil Marianne , Răutu Radu , Papa Cristina , Rostás Zoltán , Kideckel David A. , Nahorniac Raluca , Stoica Cătălin A. , Hertz Ellen , Iancu Bogdan , Stroe Monica , Duijzings Ger , V. Grecu Maria , Iuga Anamaria , Iosif Corina , Bălăşescu Alex , Sampson Steven , Tesăr Cătălina , Budrala Dumitru
Published: June 2024

In memory of Vintilă Mihăilescu (1951-2020).
Reluctant inscriptions: Social automatisms within the movement “Se Non Ora Quando?”
Authors: Näser-Lather Marion
Published: June 2024

In the course of the production of sociality, the interaction of interests, materialities and rules may occur in unintended and not foreseeable ways. Procedures and norms can establish themselves uncontrollably and contour politics. This paper proposes the application of the concept of social automatisms for the description of such social formation processes of the political, taking as an example the dynamics within the new Italian feminist movement “Se Non Ora Quando?”. Based on an ethnography of the movement (2012-2014), the paper demonstrates how traditions of interaction and the philosophy of the Italian feminists of the 1970s have inscribed themselves in the discourses and practices of Se Non Ora Quando? in line with the concept of social automatisms: through repetition and perpetuation which, although occurring unplanned and partly unconsciously and against the intentions of the actors, cause a consolidation of structures (see Bublitz et al. 2010). These inscription processes have influenced political visions, interaction and protest practices as well as conflicts within the movement.
Caterina Di Pasquale, Antropologia della memoria: Il ricordo come fatto culturale, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2018, pp. 257
Authors: Zanini Roberta Clara
Published: June 2024

Recensione del libro di Caterina Di Pasquale, Antropologia della memoria. Il ricordo come fatto culturale, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2018, pp. 257.
Berardino Palumbo, Piegare i santi: Inchini rituali e pratiche mafiose, Bologna, Marietti, 2020, pp. 176
Authors: Pizza Giovanni
Published: June 2024

Recensione del libro di Berardino Palumbo, Piegare i santi. Inchini rituali e pratiche mafiose, Bologna, Marietti, 2020, pp. 176.
Francisco Martínez, Lili Di Puppo, Martin Demant Frederiksen, eds, Peripheral methodologies: Unlearning, not-knowing and ethnographic limits, Abingdon and New York, Routledge, 2021, pp. 199
Authors: Peirolo Silvia
Published: June 2024

Book review of Francisco Martínez, Lili Di Puppo, Martin Demant Frederiksen, eds, Peripheral methodologies: Unlearning, not-knowing and ethnographic limits, Abingdon and New York, Routledge, 2021, pp. 199.
Apocalisse e storia: Fondazione trascendentale dell’umano
Authors: Quarta Luigigiovanni
Published: June 2024

Commento su Ernesto De Martino, La fine del mondo. Contributo all’analisi delle apocalissi culturali, nuova edizione a cura di Giordana Charuty, Daniel Fabre e Marcello Massenzio, 2019 [ed. fr. La fin du monde. Essai sur les apocalypses culturelles, Éditions EHESS, 2016].
Posthumanist perspectives on transhumanist marketing: More than human genes, more than market promotion
Authors: Smart Alan , Smart Josephine
Published: June 2024

Transhumanism advocates enhancement of current human capacities with new technologies, in pursuit of human improvement and perfection, and thereby creates lucrative marketing opportunities. We use the broader concept of posthumanism, which includes this, but also all the other ways in which humans are enhanced by non-humans. However, our study is not about posthumanism, but about how a posthumanist critique can enhance our analyses and diagnoses. We consider not just technology, but also other species such as our microbiome, in an effort to critically examine transhumanist marketing, and develop analytic tools to better understand it. The limitations are highlighted with an extended example of the marketing of health information in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Transhumanist marketing is distinguished between “ends”, promoting products, and “means”, as ways to facilitate marketing. We offer a typology of motivations for consumption of transhumanist goods and services.
Assoggettamento da juju? Decostruire le categorie della dipendenza tra le giovani migranti dalla Nigeria
Authors: Brivio Alessandra
Published: June 2024

L’articolo si propone di discutere il ruolo della dimensione magico-religiosa nell’asservimento e nello sfruttamento sessuale delle migranti nigeriane in Italia e la risonanza che tale dimensione ha nel discorso pubblico. A partire dal mio coinvolgimento come perito in un processo a carico di una donna accusata di tratta e di messa in schiavitù, l’articolo vuole fornire una prospettiva africanista per approfondire alcuni punti che caratterizzano la migrazione delle donne nigeriane. Dialogando con l’ampia letteratura sul tema specifico e con gli studi sulle discipline umanitarie, sulle politiche dei confini e dell’accoglienza, l’articolo si sviluppa attorno a due questioni principali. Innanzitutto, vuole ricostruire il quadro all’interno del quale le credenze e le pratiche, comunemente dette juju, si sono consolidate; quindi cerca di analizzare in prospettiva storica, con riferimento alla storia atlantica e coloniale, la correlazione tra dipendenza e debito. L’obiettivo dell’articolo è restituire ai migranti la dignità di un possibile agire politico all’interno di un discorso storico e mostrare come il dispositivo juju in Italia contribuisca a rafforzare le discriminazioni di genere, la sofferenza individuale e la produzione di discorsi razzisti.
Daniele Comberiati, Pierre Halen, Rosaria Iounes-Vona, eds, Des italiens au Congo aux italiens du Congo: Aspects d'une glocalité, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2020, pp. 366
Authors: Pugliese Francesca
Published: June 2024

Recensione di Daniele Comberiati, Pierre Halen, Rosaria Iounes-Vona, eds, Des italiens au Congo aux italiens du Congo: Aspects d'une glocalité, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2020, pp. 366.
Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Marek Jakoubek, eds, Ethnic groups and boundaries today: A legacy of fifty years, London, Routledge, 2019, pp. 232
Authors: Maher Vanessa
Published: June 2024

Book review of Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Marek Jakoubek, eds, Ethnic groups and boundaries today: A legacy of fifty years, London, Routledge, 2019, pp. 232.
Ivan Della Mea, Il penultimo comunista, A. Fanelli e M. Scotti (eds), Il de Martino, 29, 2019, pp. 245; E chi può affermare che un sampietrino non fa arte?, Jacopo Tomatis (ed), Il de Martino, 30, 2020, pp. 215
Authors: Pizza Giovanni
Published: June 2024

Book review of Ivan Della Mea, Il penultimo comunista. Scritti sulla politica (1993-2009), edited by Antonio Fanelli and Mariamargherita Scotti, Il de Martino. Rivista dell’Istituto Ernesto de Martino per la conoscenza critica e la presenza alternativa del mondo popolare e proletario, 29, 2019, pp. 245; Ivan Della Mea, E chi può affermare che un sampietrino non fa arte? Scritti sulla musica (1965-2009), edited by Jacopo Tomatis, Il de Martino. Rivista dell’Istituto Ernesto de Martino per la conoscenza critica e la presenza alternativa del mondo popolare e proletario, 30, 2020, pp. 215.
Transizione ecologica vs Heritage? Beni comuni, transizione energetica e sviluppo sostenibile in Sardegna
Authors: Cossu Tatiana
Published: June 2024

Questo contributo propone una riflessione sul rapporto fra la transizione ecologica, lo sviluppo sostenibile, e la tutela e salvaguardia dei beni culturali e naturali. La questione ambientale e i processi di patrimonializzazione hanno diversi aspetti in comune a cominciare dal loro emergere come istanze sovranazionali nelle società del tardo industrialismo, ma possono presentare anche zone di attrito che consentono di rilevare modelli di sviluppo, visioni di futuro e interessi differenti su beni e valori a livello locale e nazionale / globale, in contesti di storici disequilibri socio-economici. Per esaminare la questione, si analizzano alcuni conflitti socio-ambientali in Sardegna (Italia), nei quali comitati civici, movimenti, associazioni agiscono in difesa dei beni comuni opponendosi a opere (parchi eolici, trivellazioni), proiettate verso un modello di “sviluppo” economico considerato “sostenibile”, basato sullo sfruttamento di fonti energetiche relativamente “pulite” (metano) o rinnovabili (vento). In particolare, in questo contributo si prendono in esame le pratiche e le strategie discorsive adottate dalle parti coinvolte focalizzando l’attenzione sui differenti modi di utilizzare i temi ambientali e quelli connessi all’heritage.
Many faiths, many cultures, one world (Cuneo, 18-22 September 2012)
Authors: Buslacchi Maria Elena
Published: June 2024

Review of Many faiths, many cultures, one world (Cuneo, 18-22 September 2012).
Social sciences and the politics of knowledge: Inculturation and anthropology of knowledge: American orientalism 1945-1970
Authors: Gabryel Nasser Suleiman
Published: June 2024

Social sciences have now contributed to a better understanding of society and different cultural spaces that make up the world basing themselves on disciplines such as anthropology, sociology and history. These disciplines are involved in the development of a cognitive environment which allows us to define and delimit Orientalism perceived here as an approach. The purpose of this writing is to compare the organization and ways of Orientalism in two distinct cultural environments (Anglo-Saxon and Arabic) through the analysis of interactions and different structures which preceded its identification. If from the 40s to the 60s showed the emergence of Orientalism as a tool for policy analysis, institutionalization of the scientific community with the establishment of departments of research, growth of foundations roles in funding and policy definition of Area Studies equally sored. This leads us to question the real contribution of Areas Studies in the understanding of the Orient.
Wild Sardinia: Ethnographic provocations. Research report and reply to critics
Authors: Heatherington Tracey
Published: June 2024

The author of Wild Sardinia: Indigeneity and the Global Dreamtimes of Environmentalism (University of Washington Press 2010) offers a summary of research and reply to critics. The work is contextualized in the context of contemporary debates in anthropology and environmental studies. The article discusses misunderstandings that might arise from reading across languages and disciplinary traditions, in order to broaden the scope of meaningful debate.
In memoriam Nevill Colclough
Authors: Fischer Michael
Published: June 2024

In memory of Nevill Colclough.
Immigration in the media: The translation of control practices into the language we live in
Authors: Maneri Marcello
Published: June 2024

We begin from the end: the realization – result of many researches carried out in this field – that the media representation of immigration and consequently its public image only relates to a “problem” concerning otherness, illegitimacy and finally a naturally criminal essence. Looking for the reasons of  this representation in the functioning of media, as much literature has done, is certainly useful  but not sufficient to understand the deep nature of this common sense, which acts as an actual “system of truth”. Seeing the other possible cause of our “democratic racism” in the tactical benefits assured by the hostility discourse to the political entrepreneurs of fear is as much legitimate but still unbalanced. The attempt of this article is to find the real roots of the language that we use – like it or not – to speak of immigration in the practices of control of the “Fortress Europe”, in the policies of exclusion of the new pariah, in the investigations and the provisions inspired by the counter-terrorism, obligatory “Islamic”. The available categories, topics, images, narratives reflect the organizational imperatives of the institutions in charge of the control of the phenomenon, whit their priorities, gazes, definitions. In this reconstruction media have the relevant role of translator: from practices of control – reported, justified, naturalized – into constructs and standardizations which become “archive” on which we draw in everyday life.
Marco Aime e Davide Papotti, 2012, L’altro e l’altrove: Antropologia, geografia e turismo, Torino, Einaudi, pp. 211
Authors: Caramella Alice
Published: June 2024

Book review of Marco Aime e Davide Papotti, 2012, L’altro e l’altrove: Antropologia, geografia e turismo, Torino, Einaudi, pp. 211.
Simon Kuper, Stefan Szymanski, 2010, Soccernomics, Rio de Janeiro, Tinta Negra, pp. 310
Authors: Barba Bruno
Published: June 2024

Book review of Simon Kuper, Stefan Szymanski, 2010, Soccernomics, Rio de Janeiro, Tinta Negra, pp. 310.
Anna Casella Paltrinieri, ed, 2012, Incontri transatlantici: Il Brasile negli studi dell’antropologia italiana, Aprilia, Novalogos, pp. 350
Authors: Vangelista Chiara
Published: June 2024

Book review of Anna Casella Paltrinieri, ed, 2012, Incontri transatlantici: Il Brasile negli studi dell’antropologia italiana, Aprilia, Novalogos, pp. 350.
Francesco Remotti, 2013, Fare umanità: I drammi dell’antropopoiesi, Bari, Laterza, pp. 235
Authors: Cappadonia Denise
Published: June 2024

Book review of Francesco Remotti, 2013, Fare umanità: I drammi dell’antropopoiesi, Bari, Laterza, pp. 235.
Cultural heritage in the Alpine region: Study, valorization, restitution, Turin, 22-24 November 2012
Authors: Bertolino Maria Anna
Published: June 2024

Review of Cultural Heritage in the Alpine Area: Study, Valorization, Restitution, Turin, 22-24 November 2012.
“A Legitimate Role in the Defense of the Alliance, but on a Leash”
Authors: Blankenship Brian D.
Published: June 2024

This chapter considers West Germany's position as among the most precarious of any US ally throughout the Cold War. It discusses how the United States ultimately backed West German rearmament in a limited way that reduced the likelihood of a revival of German militarism by subsuming German military power under NATO command and arming West Germany with US military equipment. The United States funneled German contributions into areas like providing foreign aid to Greece and compensating Washington for the cost of stationing US forces on German territory. The chapter describes evidence showing that the Federal Republic of Germany's (FRG) geographic vulnerability and US resource constraints facilitated US officials' ability to pressure West Germany into accepting high levels of burden-sharing. Changes in perceived Soviet capabilities and intentions shaped FRG defense contributions inconsistently.
Making (and Serving) Multitude
Authors: Tan Chang
Published: June 2024

This chapter studies the celebrity artist-activist Ai Weiwei, who has taken full advantage of both the material cultures and the collective networks of minjian in his art and politics. It reinterprets three large-scale projects coordinated by Ai at critical points of his career: Fairytale (2007); the art and activism in support of the victims of the Wenchuan Earthquake (2008–12); and his most recent work on the global refugee crisis (2017–18). It highlights how a multitude of objects and bodies were collected, reshaped, mobilized, and commemorated in each of Ai's project. The chapter demonstrates how Ai's avant-gardism resides in his ability to traverse all the spheres, worlds, and circles. The abundant financial and cultural capitals at Ai's command allowed him to serve the broadest minjian in and beyond China, but also separated him from the minjian he is seen to represent.
Rooted, Rural, and Subaltern Cosmopolitans in Transnational Peasant and Farmer Movements
Authors: Edelman Marc
Published: June 2024

This chapter highlights the figures of the “rooted cosmopolitan,” the “rural cosmopolitan,” and the “subaltern cosmopolitan” by scrutinizing these concepts alongside activists' complicated biographies. Media pundits, politicians, and urbanites often question the authenticity of peasant activists whenever they manifest worldliness. The chapter outlines forces that produced contemporary peasant intellectuals, critiques the facile application of Gramsci's notion of “organic intellectuals,” and suggests why agrarian movements sometimes downplay the impressive accomplishments and trajectories of their leaders and spokespeople. Migration, exile, and complex political involvements mark the biographies of peasant activists. The peasant sector has always been heterogeneous across multiple dimensions, and this has increased with the rise of transnational activism. Ultimately, an examination of transnational agrarian movements, and specifically La Via Campesina, indicates that new cosmopolitanisms may facilitate solidarity, internationalism, and counterhegemonic struggles.
Maize residue retention shapes soil microbial communities and co-occurrence networks upon freeze-thawing cycles
Authors: Yu Yang , Guo Quankuan , Zhang Shuhan , Guan Yupeng , Jiang Nana , Zhang Yang , Mao Rong , Bai Keyu , Buriyev Salimjan , Samatov Nuriddin , Zhang Ximei , Yang Wei
Published: June 2024

Maize residue retention is an effective agricultural practice for improving soil fertility in black soil region, where suffered from long freezing-thawing periods and intense freeze-thawing (FT) cycles. However, very few studies have examined the influence of maize residue retention on soil microbial communities under FT cycles. We investigated the response of soil microbial communities and co-occurrence networks to maize residue retention at different FT intensities over 12 cycles using a microcosm experiment conditioned in a temperature incubator. Our results indicated that maize residue retention induced dramatic shifts in soil archaeal, bacterial and fungal communities towards copiotroph-dominated communities. Maize residue retention consistently reduced soil fungal richness across all cycles, but this effect was weaker for archaea and bacteria. Normalized stochastic ratio analysis revealed that maize residue retention significantly enhanced the deterministic process of archaeal, bacterial and fungal communities. Although FT intensity significantly impacted soil respiration, it did not induce profound changes in soil microbial diversity and community composition. Co-occurrence network analysis revealed that maize residue retention simplified prokaryotic network, while did not impact fungal network complexity. The network robustness index suggested that maize residue retention enhanced the fungal network stability, but reduced prokaryotic network stability. Moreover, the fungal network in severe FT treatment harbored the most abundant keystone taxa, mainly being cold-adapted fungi. By identifying modules in networks, we observed that prokaryotic Module #1 and fungal Module #3 were enhanced by maize residue retention and contributed greatly to soil quality. Together, our results showed that maize residue retention exerted stronger influence on soil microbial communities and co-occurrence network patterns than FT intensity and highlighted the potential of microbial interactions in improving soil functionality.
Ferrostatin-1 inhibits fibroblast fibrosis in keloid by inhibiting ferroptosis
Authors: Yang Liu , Li Xiuli , Wang Yanli
Published: June 2024

Background

Keloid is a chronic proliferative fibrotic disease caused by abnormal fibroblasts proliferation and excessive extracellular matrix (ECM) production. Numerous fibrotic disorders are significantly influenced by ferroptosis, and targeting ferroptosis can effectively mitigate fibrosis development. This study aimed to investigate the role and mechanism of ferroptosis in keloid development.

Methods

Keloid tissues from keloid patients and normal skin tissues from healthy controls were collected. Iron content, lipid peroxidation (LPO) level, and the mRNA and protein expression of ferroptosis-related genes including solute carrier family 7 member 11 (SLC7A11), glutathione peroxidase 4 (GPX4), transferrin receptor (TFRC), and nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2 (Nrf2) were determined. Mitochondrial morphology was observed using transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Keloid fibroblasts (KFs) were isolated from keloid tissues, and treated with ferroptosis inhibitor ferrostatin-1 (fer-1) or ferroptosis activator erastin. Iron content, ferroptosis-related marker levels, LPO level, mitochondrial membrane potential, ATP content, and mitochondrial morphology in KFs were detected. Furthermore, the protein levels of α-smooth muscle actin (α-SMA), collagen I, and collagen III were measured to investigate whether ferroptosis affect fibrosis in KFs.

Results

We found that iron content and LPO level were substantially elevated in keloid tissues and KFs. SLC7A11, GPX4, and Nrf2 were downregulated and TFRC was upregulated in keloid tissues and KFs. Mitochondria in keloid tissues and KFs exhibited ferroptosis-related pathology. Fer-1 treatment reduced iron content, restrained ferroptosis and mitochondrial dysfunction in KFs, Moreover, ferrostatin-1 restrained the protein expression of α-SMA, collagen I, and collagen III in KFs. Whereas erastin treatment showed the opposite results.

Conclusion

Ferroptosis exists in keloid. Ferrostatin-1 restrained ECM deposition and fibrosis in keloid through inhibiting ferroptosis, and erastin induced ECM deposition and fibrosis through intensifying ferroptosis.
Neruda: "Crepusculario" en su año 100
Authors: Loyola Hernán
Published: June 2024

Sin resumen
Fotografías de guerra (poemas)
Authors: Chueca Luis Fernando
Published: June 2024

Sin resumen
Poemas
Authors: Nómez Naín
Published: June 2024

Sin resumen
Estrategias de transición en manejo holístico para ganaderos del GTT+ de ganadería regenerativa de la provincia de Cardenal Caro
Authors:   , Vergara Rojas Matías
Published: June 2024

Vergara Rojas, Matías Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Facultad de Agronomía y Sistemas Naturales https://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/86550 10.7764/tesisUC/AGR/86550 Estrategias de transición en manejo holístico para ganaderos del GTT de ganadería regenerativa de la provincia de Cardenal Caro