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Expertise and adventure: In/formalization processes within EU rule of law capacity building programs
Authors: Zerilli Filippo M. , Trappe Julie
Published: June 2024

This paper explores dynamics of formalization and informalization as interlinked social processes as a contribution to a critical understanding of rule of law capacity building programs in the framework of EU enlargement policy. It also challenges the assumption according to which informality would be a modality characteristic of countries of the “Global South”.
Tradition, innovation and vintage in the contemporary foodscapes: The case study of Sardinian desserts
Authors: Guigoni Alessandra
Published: June 2024

This paper explores the concepts of foodscape tradition, innovation and vintage. In particular this work is focused on the case study of Sardinian sweet local production and consumption. Vintage is an emerging tendency in mass consumption, a trend clearly visible in furniture, bag, wear, and gadget production, which is gaining popularity in the foodscapes as well, connected to the “food nostalgia”. The author tries to elucidate the sweet vintage phenomena through the analysis of artifacts of different Sardinian pastry cooks, and especially the work of Roberto Murgia
Francesca Gargallo Celentani, Feminismos desde Abya Yala: Ideas y proposiciones de las mujeres de 607 pueblos en nuestra América, Ciudad de México, Edición digital, 2014, pp. 271
Authors: Declich Francesca
Published: June 2024

Recensione di Francesca Gargallo Celentani, Feminismos desde Abya Yala: Ideas y proposiciones de las mujeres de 607 pueblos en nuestra América, Ciudad de México, Edición digital, 2014, pp. 271.
Kate Crehan, Gramsci’s common sense: Inequality and its narratives, Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 2016, pp. 222
Authors: Pala Mauro
Published: June 2024

Recensione di Kate Crehan, Gramsci’s common sense: Inequality and its narratives, Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 2016, pp. 222.
Daniela Salvucci, Donne pastore, gauchos e figli del vento: Ecologie andine e reti di parentela nel nord ovest argentino, Padova, CLEUP, 2016, pp. 262
Authors: Fusari Valentina
Published: June 2024

Recensione di Daniela Salvucci, Donne pastore, gauchos e figli del vento: Ecologie andine e reti di parentela nel nord ovest argentino, Padova, CLEUP, 2016, pp. 262.
Il serpente e la Madonna: Sensi, pratiche e paesaggi sonori in un luogo di culto vodou: Saut d’Eau, Haiti
Authors: Ronzon Francesco
Published: June 2024

L’articolo analizza la relazione tra sensi, pratiche e paesaggi sonori in relazione a Sodo, sede di un pellegrinaggio vodou su scala nazionale ad Haiti. Partendo dagli studi sui soundscapes (Schafer 1977) come punto di vista teorico per analizzare l’interazione tra suono e persone in un luogo specifico, l’articolo mostra l’interazione tra suoni ambientali, musica registrata e performance dal vivo. In particolare, questa ricerca vuole investigare il micro livello dell’ascolto situato, ovvero i modi con i quali gli attori sociali indirizzano la loro attenzione verso i suoni dell’ambiente in relazione alle loro pratiche sociali, culturali e religiose.
L’antropologia umana: Colette Pétonnet e la passione per gli ultimi
Authors: Giampaoli Michelangelo
Published: June 2024

Nota critica di Colette Pétonnet, On est tous dans le brouillard. Essai d'ethnologie urbaine, Réédition établie par Catherine Choron-Baix, Paris, Collection CTHS, 2012, pp. 544; Colette Pétonnet, Ces gens-là, Paris, CNRS, 2017, pp. 384.
Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Fuori controllo: Un’antropologia del cambiamento accelerato, traduzione di Chiara Melloni, Torino, Einaudi, 2017, pp. 215
Authors: Lai Franco
Published: June 2024

Recensione di Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Fuori controllo: Un’antropologia del cambiamento accelerato, traduzione di Chiara Melloni, Torino, Einaudi, 2017, pp. 215.
Franco Lai, Tecno-oggetti amichevoli: La Mela Morsicata e il consumo delle tecnologie, Roma, CISU, 2015, pp. 143
Authors: Benadusi Mara
Published: June 2024

Book review of Franco Lai, Tecno-oggetti amichevoli: La Mela Morsicata e il consumo delle tecnologie, Roma, CISU, 2015, pp. 143.
Stefano Pontiggia, Il bacino maledetto: Disuguaglianza, marginalità e potere nella Tunisia postrivoluzionaria, Verona, Ombre Corte, 2017, pp. 229
Authors: Persichetti Alessandra
Published: June 2024

Book review of Stefano Pontiggia, Il bacino maledetto: Disuguaglianza, marginalità e potere nella Tunisia postrivoluzionaria, Verona, Ombre Corte, 2017, pp. 229.
Olivier Jourdain, L’Eau Sacrée, Belgique / Rwanda, 2016, 55 minutes, HD
Authors: Loce Mandes Fabrizio
Published: June 2024

Recensione di Olivier Jourdain, L’Eau Sacrée, Belgique / Rwanda, 2016, 55 minutes, HD.
Multiculturalism, moralism, and the politics of a “new” nationalism
Authors: Baca George
Published: June 2024

Comment on Jonathan Friedman, Politicamente corretto. Il conformismo morale come regime, edited by Piero Zanini, translated by Francesca Nicola and Piero Zanini, Milano, Meltemi, 2018, pp. 348.
Political correctness, and the relentless decline of critical reason
Authors: Loperfido Giacomo
Published: June 2024

Comment on Jonathan Friedman, Politicamente corretto. Il conformismo morale come regime, edited by Piero Zanini, translated by Francesca Nicola e Piero Zanini, Milano, Meltemi, 2018, pp. 348.
A book that is out of sync with current times
Authors: Vereni Piero
Published: June 2024

Comment on Jonathan Friedman, Politicamente corretto. Il conformismo morale come regime, edited by Piero Zanini, translated by Francesca Nicola and Piero Zanini, Milano, Meltemi, 2018, pp. 348.
“Do not disturb”: Why we need to be awake
Authors: Friedman Jonathan
Published: June 2024

Response to comments by George Baca, Christian Giordano, Giacomo Loperfido and Piero Vereni on Jonathan Friedman, Politicamente corretto. Il conformismo morale come regime, edited by Piero Zanini, translation by Francesca Nicola and Piero Zanini, Milano, Meltemi, 2018, pp. 348
Infrastructures in and of ethnography
Authors: Strathern Marilyn
Published: June 2024

This contribution invites reflection on some of the conditions under which ethnographic enquiry is carried forward. Taking its cue from the concept of infrastructure, commonly understood as the practical supports underpinning an enterprise, it extends the notion to include ideas or assumptions that may be sustaining the purpose of enquiry. It thus takes practical and ideational supports in tandem. Intermittently visible, falling beyond the purview of the topics being investigated, and thus rather less than explicit contexts for research, the infrastructures of ethnographic work afford some insight into its changing circumstances. Importantly, these include changing orientations towards or conceptualizations of the kinds of objects of knowledge regarded as its ultimate aim. The reflections are exercised on materials from Oceania, from both the beginning and the end of the century that Bronisław Malinowski inaugurated upon his arrival in the Trobriand district of Kiriwina in 1915.
Pilots of history: Ethnographic fieldwork and anthropology’s explorations of the past
Authors: Gingrich Andre , Knoll Eva-Maria
Published: June 2024

The establishment of the Malinowski Forum for Ethnography and Anthropology in South Tyrol provides a good opportunity in the journal of Italy’s relevant academic association for a reconsideration of the current significance of ethnography, as initiated by Malinowski, for various scholarly fields in anthropology and beyond. One of these fields is historical anthropology and history in the broad sense of the term. This article seeks to explore how the Malinowskian legacy in ethnographic fieldwork may be usefully and productively activated and elaborated for historical fields and for historical anthropology. For this purpose, the first section will outline how Malinowski’s notion of an empirical field was open to all kinds of comparative interdisciplinary inquiries. Eventually, these also came to include history, despite Malinowski’s original well-known caveat in his time (Firth 2002). The second section will then elaborate the case example of maritime pilots as well as other cultural brokers with cosmopolitan expertise in the Indian Ocean, in order to demonstrate how ethnographic insights may support, enrich and complement historical data or, if these are absent, how they may become historically relevant indicators in their own right. A summary section points out that this leads to pioneering new tasks for anthropology.
Alessandro Deiana, Effetto folklore: Usi e significati della tradizione nella Sardegna contemporanea, Roma, Aracne, 2017, pp. 256
Authors: Giancristofaro Lia
Published: June 2024

Book review of Alessandro Deiana, Effetto folklore: Usi e significati della tradizione nella Sardegna contemporanea, Roma, Aracne, 2017, pp. 256.
Hashtags, testimonies, and measurements: Gender violence and its interpretation
Authors: Gribaldo Alessandra
Published: June 2024

In this article, I address gender violence through the act of witnessing and speaking out by the victims. Starting from a critical comment on some arguable points raised in the recent Hau Journal forum aimed at discussing forms and claims of the #MeToo movement, I let emerge the conundrums that anthropology faces in dealing with the issue. A focus on domestic abuse as a specific form of gender violence allows me to delve into the twine of intimacy, agency and consent in the experience of the victims. I detect the specific dynamics that characterize the issue of speaking/not speaking out against violence by abused women and that underpin analytical biases. Then, I illustrate how these complexities can be found in the general assessment and measurement of gender violence as a global phenomenon. I conclude with a reflection on violence and women’s voices as an opportunity for anthropological knowledge to deal with truth telling, intimacy, and the gendered act of speaking out.
On the carrying stream into the European mountain: Roots and routes of creative (Scottish) ethnology
Authors: Kockel Ullrich , McFadyen Mairi
Published: June 2024

Since 2016, a diverse network of academic researchers, creative practitioners and cultural activists has emerged in Scotland, keen to explore the potential of a “creative ethnology”. This is in part a response to the politico-cultural and wider intellectual climate in the aftermath of the referendum on Scottish independence in 2014, and to ongoing debates in the arts and academia. As activists in this network, and ethnologists at almost opposite ends of our respective academic journeys, but who share similar perspectives and concerns, we reflect in this article on the margins and intersections of (European) ethnology in Scotland through mapping our personal trajectories in terms of geographical location, institutional contexts, research foci and methodological experimentation. Given limitations of space, we concentrate on aspects highlighting the specific contexts we have found ourselves living and working in, thus illustrating the positionality of (European) ethnology in Scotland through our individual trajectories in their relationality, rather than attempting a comprehensive account of the field. Our focus here is on that emerging “creative ethnology” and its potential contribution as non-hegemonic anthropologies are becoming increasingly recognized.
Children accused of witchcraft in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): Between structural and symbolic violence
Authors: Quaretta Edoardo
Published: June 2024

In this paper I consider the phenomenon of the “child-witches” in Lubumbashi (Katanga, DRC) as the result of the intertwine of two dynamics: the accusation of children within the sphere of the family and the large number of street children in Congolese cities. On the one hand, witchcraft accusations within the family tend to work in two ways: as a mode of childrenʼs subjugation, exerted especially by pastors in neopentecostal churches; and as a “pragmatic of uncertainty” that allow Congolese families to deal with uncertainties of life, such as sickness, suffering, marital problems, failure, and death. On the other hand, children in the streets of Lubumbashi suggest a witchcraft discourse linked to the symbolic violence that should be read in terms of boundaries, margins, and liminality: street children are associated with witches because they have transgressed basic social norms and they live out of the ordinary social networks (kinship, family, school). In this vein, I propose an ethnographic approach which takes into account the multiform feature of the “child-witches” highlighting the importance of the everyday practices and ordinary objects in family ties definition and witchcraft accusations.
Metafore in azione: Rappresentazioni e retoriche nell’immaginario socioculturale della malattia di Alzheimer in Occidente
Authors: Pasquarelli Elisa
Published: June 2024

Questo articolo offre una panoramica del dibattito su persona e sé nella malattia di Alzheimer che si avvia negli anni Ottanta del secolo scorso in risposta alla diffusione di metafore disumanizzanti su questa condizione di salute descritta come una “perdita del sé” che rende chi ne soffre una “non persona”. Le visioni del totale annullamento di persona e sé sono state criticate in riflessioni teoriche, studi fenomenologici e programmi “centrati sulla persona”. In particolare, hanno dimostrato che le possibilità di espressione e azione si preservano anche a stadi relativamente avanzati della patologia, promuovendo la valorizzazione delle dimensioni affettive, sociali, relazionali, le storie di vita e l’esperienza della malattia della persona pienamente riconosciuta. Tuttavia, anche questi approcci producono stereotipi e l’adesione ai costrutti metaforici è ancora radicata. Presenterò questi discorsi plurali e descriverò le principali metafore, rappresentazioni e retoriche relative alla malattia di Alzheimer e le persone che ne soffrono nei contesti occidentali.
Come comunicano gli antropologi: A proposito dello strabismo della DEA
Authors: Favole Adriano
Published: June 2024

Commento a Berardino Palumbo, Lo strabismo della DEA: Antropologia, accademia e società in Italia, Palermo, Edizioni Museo Pasqualino, 2018, pp. 289.
“Blitzkrieg Bop”: Generazioni, genealogie e fazioni dell’antropologia italiana
Authors: Severi Ivan
Published: June 2024

Commento a Berardino Palumbo, Lo strabismo della DEA: Antropologia, accademia e società in Italia, Palermo, Edizioni Museo Pasqualino, 2018, pp. 289.
We (don’t) talk about it: Anthropological strabismus, myopia and presbyopia
Authors: Siniscalchi Valeria
Published: June 2024

Comment on Berardino Palumbo, Lo strabismo della DEA: Antropologia, accademia e società in Italia, Palermo, Edizioni Museo Pasqualino, 2018, pp. 289.
Ricercare la politica. Oggi
Authors: Aureli Andrea
Published: June 2024

Nota critica di Stefano Portelli, La città orizzontale: Etnografia di un quartiere ribelle di Barcellona, Napoli, Monitor, 2017, pp. 317; Pietro Saitta, Prendere le case: Fantasmi del sindacalismo di una città ribelle, Verona, Ombre Corte, 2018, pp. 205.
Cultura popolare, cultura subalterna, cultura di classe
Authors: Deiana Alessandro
Published: June 2024

Nota critica di Fabio Dei, Antonio Fanelli, a cura di, La demologia come “scienza normale”? Ripensare Cultura egemonica e culture subalterne, Lares, 81, 2-3, Maggio-Dicembre 2015, pp. 239; Fabio Dei, Cultura popolare in Italia: Da Gramsci all’Unesco, Bologna, il Mulino, 2018, pp. 274.
Berardino Palumbo – Lo strabismo della DEA
Authors: Pusceddu Antonio Maria , Zerilli (eds) Filippo M.
Published: June 2024

International book forum on the volume by anthropologist Berardino Palumbo, Lo strabismo della DEA: Antropologia, accademia e società in Italia [The Goddess’ Strabismus: Anthropology, Academy, and Society in Italy], Palermo, Edizioni Museo Pasqualino, 2018, pp. 289. Comments of Mara Benadusi, Michael Blim, Riccardo Ciavolella, Caterina Di Pasquale, Adriano Favole, Noelle Molé Liston, Ivan Severi, Valeria Siniscalchi. With a reply by Berardino Palumbo.
La specificità tunisina: Egemonia politica e habitus dell’impegno nell’Islam pubblico contemporaneo
Authors: Copertino Domenico
Published: June 2024

L’elaborazione islamica delle idee di democrazia, pluralismo e libertà, condotta dai movimenti islamici tunisini dopo la rivoluzione del 2011, può essere considerata come parte di una tradizione discorsiva (Asad 1986) incentrata sulla “specificità tunisina”. Questa tradizione prevede l’interpretazione delle fonti islamiche classiche e moderne da parte di autorità religiose e secolari, finalizzata a legittimare l’impegno sociale e politico in nome dell’Islam. La specificità tunisina è un discorso che si richiama alle interpretazioni locali delle pratiche islamiche (come il sufismo e il marabuttismo), sull’opera dei pensatori dell’Islam moderno e sui ragionamenti su democrazia e diritti umani, allo scopo di costruire una cornice teorica all’interno della quale approfondire i concetti di moderazione, tolleranza, pluralismo e attività politica a partire da una prospettiva islamica. Questo contributo fa parte di una ricerca etnografica condotta dal 2012 e il 2015 tra gli attivisti del pubblico islamico tunisino. Tale categoria comprende sia gli islamisti (ovvero gli attivisti dei movimenti e partiti impegnati direttamente nell’agone politico) che i du‘at (gli attivisti della società civile e delle associazioni impostate sulla devozione, impegnati a diffondere il messaggio islamico dal basso). L’osservazione delle interrelazioni tra i due gruppi e della condivisione della medesima cornice teorica (la specificità tunisina) e vocabolario (libertà, dignità, diritti umani e così via) fa comprendere come la netta distinzione tra un attivismo islamico di tipo politico ed uno di tipo socioculturale deve essere messa in discussione.
Violence and space: A comparative ethnography of two Italian “badlands”
Authors: Fava Ferdinando , Grassi Paolo
Published: June 2024

This paper compares two marginal neighbourhoods and Italian “badlands”: the Zona Espansione Nord (ZEN) of Palermo and San Siro in Milan. It concerns multiple types of violence that affect them and their connections with different multi-scale processes. The two neighbourhoods emerge as the result of two urban histories that can be partly schematised in two dichotomous images: on the one side, the “non-Fordist” marginality of the ZEN, a social enclave of unemployment without a working-class past; on the other side, the “post-Fordist” marginality of San Siro, a multicultural socio-spatial configuration with a working-class past. Following the idea of the continuum of violence, we suggest that space is heuristically connected with violence and to this continuum. In order to illustrate this hypothesis, this paper introduces two case studies, drawing out their main common characteristics as urban badlands, and singling out the different traits that mark their specificity. It then links the continuum of violence to urban space, firstly in a synchronic perspective, mapping the different forms of violence that affect the two neighbourhoods today, and secondly on a diachronic perspective pointing to their different on-going dynamics, through the life stories of some of our interlocutors. Through this comparison, we illustrate how these two case studies combine and account for what we call the urban space-violence continuum.
In memory of Luc de Heusch
Authors: Pennacini Cecilia
Published: June 2024

In memory of Luc de Heusch (1927-2012).
Romani self-appellations in a linguistic perspective: A reply to Leonardo Piasere
Authors: Matras Yaron
Published: June 2024

Rejoinder to Leonardo Piasere, 2019, Pour une histoire des auto-dénominations romanès, Anuac, 8, 1: 85-118.
The nature of a cosmopolitan anthropology and the nature of human difference
Authors: Rapport Nigel
Published: June 2024

Thomas Hylland Eriksen argues in his incisive and fair-minded insight to “what is European about European anthropology” by advocating its cosmopolitanism. Anthropology that is cosmopolitan might go beyond hierarchies of language, country and institution, he urges; might provide the friction between different traditions that sparks a global intellectual exchange; and might bring global insights to bear, comparatively, on local issues of political economy. In this way Eriksen makes interesting links between “European anthropology” as an idea or concept and “European anthropology” as a set of ethnographic studies: I read him as saying that by virtue of the empirical facts that anthropological research in European settings has unearthed, we can now imagine a way of practising anthropology that is “cosmopolitan” – as amplified above. I would invest equally in a cosmopolitan anthropology, and would like to explore further what in the nature of cosmopolitanism as a concept enables it to have its intellectual and its moral power.
Locating European anthropology
Authors: Laviolette Patrick , Green Sarah , Martínez Francisco
Published: June 2024

This commentary revisits the “Rethinking Euro-anthropology” Forums published in the journal Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale. It reconsiders three specific issues: who are the subjects of European anthropology, who are its others, and who are its authors? Noting that European anthropology does not imply a spatial fixity (there is no “there there” in European anthropology), we suggest instead that European anthropological scholarship is the outcome of diverse forms of crossborder and transborder exchanges. Yet as a project that is both intellectual and political, we further discuss some of the contradictions, ambiguities and paradoxes behind this “worlding” of the discipline. By observing that E(e)uropean anthropology in particular should constantly strive to relate the locating endeavours of ethical practice, empirical evidence, historical reflection and humanistic theorising, we call for innovative forms of academic collaboration, narrative creations and belonging to/with places.
A reply to Yaron Matras
Authors: Piasere Leonardo
Published: June 2024

Replay to Yaron Matras.
Claudio Sopranzetti, Sara Fabbri, Chiara Natalucci, Il re di Bangkok, Torino, Add Editore, 2019, pp. 218
Authors: Lai Franco
Published: June 2024

Recensione di Claudio Sopranzetti, Sara Fabbri, Chiara Natalucci, Il re di Bangkok, Torino, Add Editore, 2019, pp. 218.
Theodora Vetta, Democracy struggles: NGOs and the politics of Aid in Serbia, New York and Oxford, Berghahn, 2018, pp. 240
Authors: Morača Tijana
Published: June 2024

Book review of Theodora Vetta, Democracy struggles: NGOs and the politics of Aid in Serbia, New York and Oxford, Berghahn, 2018, pp. 240.
Tamara Kotevska, Ljubomir Stefanov, Honeyland, North Macedonia, 2019, 87’
Authors: Meloni Greca N.
Published: June 2024

Review of Tamara Kotevska, Ljubomir Stefanov, Honeyland, North Macedonia, 2019, 87’.
Gianni Belloni, Antonio Vesco, Come pesci nell’acqua: Mafie, impresa e politica in Veneto, Roma, Donzelli, 2018, pp. vi-210
Authors: Loperfido Giacomo
Published: June 2024

Recensione di Gianni Belloni, Antonio Vesco, Come pesci nell’acqua: Mafie, impresa e politica in Veneto, Roma, Donzelli, 2018, pp. vi-210.
Lombrosians and lombrosianism in Brazil
Authors: Sansone Livio
Published: June 2024

Cesare Lombroso and his "positive school" of criminal anthropology were highly influential in the formation of the social sciences and ethnographic sensibility in Brazil. Rather than carefully read or analysed, Lombroso and his school were cited, interpreted and somewhat creolized according to modalities specific to the socio-racial context of Brazil, revealing significant historical entanglements between social scientists in Italy and Latin America (as shown by the sojourns of the Italian scholars Guglielmo Ferrero, Gina Lombroso and Enrico Ferri in 1907-1910). The complex and never passive process of reception and reinterpretation of Lombrosian ideas was characterized by a dynamic of attraction and rejection. This article examines the reception and influence of "Lombrosianism" in Brazil, showing how and why such influence gradually vanished in the 1930s, to disappear after the Second World War.
Struggling lives and symbolic boundaries: Violence, young people and trauma in post-conflict Belfast
Authors: Magliacane Chiara
Published: June 2024

In Belfast, despite everyone knowing the conventional date that put an end to the Northern Irish conflict, commonly known as The Troubles, many people still suffer from its legacies to this day. In this article, I consider both post-conflict dynamics and contemporary issues in Belfast, focusing in particular on young people. Through a qualitative methodology, and drawing on anthropological concepts such as structural violence, I provide some reflections on the relationship between violence and trauma in this context through the analysis of the ethnographic data collected in a youth centre. This intervention is intended as a potential contribution to the broader literature on the anthropology of trauma and the ethnographies of violence, and on the debate on the transmission of mental distress from one generation to another.
Rethinking Cirese
Authors: Solinas Pier Giorgio
Published: June 2024

In memory of Alberto Mario Cirese (1921-2011).
Sara Roncaglia, Canti urbani: Trasformazioni del lavoro e degli spazi di vita a Mumbai, Milano, Raffaello Cortina, 2019, pp. 183
Authors: Fanelli Antonio
Published: June 2024

Recensione di Sara Roncaglia, Canti urbani: Trasformazioni del lavoro e degli spazi di vita a Mumbai, Milano, Raffaello Cortina, 2019, pp. 183.
Simonetta Grilli, Antropologia delle famiglie contemporanee, Roma, Carocci, 2019, pp. 315
Authors: Guerzoni Corinna Sabrina
Published: June 2024

Recensione di Simonetta Grilli, Antropologia delle famiglie contemporanee, Roma, Carocci, 2019, pp. 315.
Labour of Love: An Open Access Manifesto for Freedom, Integrity, and Creativity in the Humanities and Interpretive Social Sciences
Authors: Pia Andrea E. , Batterbury Simon , Joniak-Lüthi Agnieszka , LaFlamme Marcel , Wielander Gerda , Zerilli Filippo M. , Nolas Sevasti-Melissa , Schubert Jon , Loubere Nicholas , Franceschini Ivan , Walsh Casey , Mora Agathe , Varvantakis Christos
Published: June 2024

Labour of Love: An Open Access Manifesto for Freedom, Integrity, and Creativity in the Humanities and Interpretive Social Sciences, is the result of an LSE Research Infrastructure and Investment–funded workshop entitled Academic Freedom, Academic Integrity and Open Access in the Social Sciences, organised by Andrea E. Pia and held at the London School of Economics on September 9, 2019.
Umberto Pellecchia, Francesco Zanotelli, La cura e il potere: Sapere globale, saperi antropologici, Firenze, Editpress, 2010, pp. 259 - Anna Casella Paltrinieri, 2011, Prendersi cura, Firenze, Ed.it, 2011, pp. 268
Authors: Barba Bruno
Published: June 2024

Book review of Umberto Pellecchia, Francesco Zanotelli, 2010, La cura e il potere: Sapere globale, saperi antropologici, Firenze, Editpress, pp. 259; Anna Casella Paltrinieri, Prendersi cura, Firenze, Ed.it, 2011, pp. 268.
Giovanni Pizza, L’antropologia di Gramsci: Corpo, natura, mutazione, Roma, Carocci, 2020, pp. 182
Authors: Marchi Alessandra
Published: June 2024

Recensione del libro di Giovanni Pizza, L’antropologia di Gramsci. Corpo, natura, mutazione, Roma, Carocci, 2020, pp. 182.
Quel sentiero che nasce camminando: Un’antropologia per un altro mondo possibile
Authors: Basile Dario
Published: June 2024

Nota critica su Anand Pandian, A Possible Anthropology. Methods for Uneasy Times. Duke University Press, Durham and London, 2019, pp. 160; Tim Ingold, Antropologia. Ripensare il mondo, traduzione di Gaia Raimondi, edizione italiana a cura di Matteo Meschiari, Meltemi, Milano, 2020, pp. 112.
Un atto d’amore: Manifesto Open Access per la libertà, l’integrità e la creatività nelle scienze umane e nelle scienze sociali interpretative
Authors: Pia Andrea E. , Batterbury Simon , Joniak-Lüthi Agnieszka , LaFlamme Marcel , Wielander Gerda , Zerilli Filippo M. , Nolas Sevasti-Melissa , Schubert Jon , Loubere Nicholas , Franceschini Ivan , Walsh Casey , Mora Agathe , Varvantakis Christos
Published: June 2024

Un atto d’amore: Manifesto Open Access per la libertà, l’integrità e la creatività nelle scienze umane e nelle scienze sociali interpretative, è il risultato di un workshop finanziato da LSE Research Infrastructure and Investment Funds dal titolo Academic Freedom, Academic Integrity and Open Access in the Social Sciences, organizzato da Andrea E. Pia e tenuto presso la London School of Economics il 9 settembre 2019.
Listening through houses: Changing communities of sounds in Northern Laos
Authors: Stolz Rosalie
Published: June 2024

In the uplands of northern Laos, in which bamboo and timber houses prevailed, concrete houses are now on the rise. It will be argued that houses can be used as prisms to illuminate processes of social change. Drawing on experiences of staying in both a timber house and a new concrete one over the course of long-term ethnographic fieldwork among the Khmu, a key experiential difference will be analysed: their different soundscapes. While one can easily listen through the cracks and spaces between timber boards, concrete walls produce a perceivable barrier between inside and outside. It will be argued that the changing materiality of the house and its (sonic) repercussions contribute to shaping a different relationship between the house, its residents, and the village. Finally, it will be argued that when inquiring into the shifting sensory experience of living in concrete houses in a social context in which houses are of central importance yet are not the places where locals spend much of their time, emphasis should not solely be given to the house but to other meaningful locales of sociality.
Teresinha Bernardo, Memoria in bianco e negro: Sguardi sulla città di San Paolo, traduzione di Luisa Faldini, Roma, Cisu, 2012, pp. 206
Authors: Barba Bruno
Published: June 2024

Book review of Teresinha Bernardo, Memoria in bianco e negro. Sguardi sulla città di San Paolo, traduzione di Luisa Faldini, Roma, Cisu, 2012, pp. 206.
Jean-Louis Tornatore, ed, Le patrimoine comme expérience: Implications anthropologiques, Paris, Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme, 2019, pp. 298
Authors: Salvucci Daniela
Published: June 2024

Recensione di Jean-Louis Tornatore, ed, Le patrimoine comme expérience: Implications anthropologiques, Paris, Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme, 2019, pp. 298.
Douglas R. Holmes, Integralismi europei: Capitalismo veloce, multiculturalismo, neofascismo, edizione italiana e traduzione a cura di Berardino Palumbo e Giovanni Pizza, Milano, Meltemi, 2020, pp. 382
Authors: Simonetti Alberto
Published: June 2024

Recensione di Douglas R. Holmes, Integralismi europei: Capitalismo veloce, multiculturalismo, neofascismo, edizione italiana e traduzione a cura di Berardino Palumbo e Giovanni Pizza, Milano, Meltemi, 2020, pp. 382.
Carlo Capello, Giovanni Semi, a cura di, Torino: Un profilo etnografico, Milano, Meltemi, 2018, pp. 268
Authors: Lo Re Vincenzo Luca
Published: June 2024

Recensione di Carlo Capello, Giovanni Semi, eds, Torino: Un profilo etnografico, Milano, Meltemi, 2018, pp. 268.
David Graeber: Antropologia, anarchia, attivismo
Authors: Alves de Matos Patrícia , Deiana (eds) Alessandro
Published: June 2024

Forum in memoria di David Graeber. Contributi di Patrícia Alves de Matos, Stefano Boni, Dimitris Dalakoglou, Alessandro Deiana, Nika Dubrovsky.
Le novità, a cominciare dall’Indice
Authors: Angelini Pietro
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].
“How dare you?” Thefts of life amid melancholy, inaction and inducive prophecies
Authors: Taliani Simona
Published: June 2024

Comment on Ernesto De Martino, La fine del mondo. Contributo all’analisi delle apocalissi culturali, new edition, edited by Giordana Charuty, Daniel Fabre and Marcello Massenzio, 2019 [fr. ed. La fin du monde. Essai sur les apocalypses culturelles, Éditions EHESS, 2016].
In memoria di Patrick Williams (1947-2021)
Authors: Pontrandolfo Stefania
Published: June 2024

Il testo propone un ricordo e un omaggio a Patrick Williams (1947-2021), uno dei più importanti antropologi dei gruppi rom e sinti. Quello che si propone è anche un omaggio a un certo tipo di antropologia che Patrick Williams ha contribuito a costruire con costanza e consapevolezza: un’antropologia che basa qualsiasi proposta teorica sull’esperienza etnografica.
Quando prevalece a alteridade: Pérolas de Tullio Seppilli à pesquisa qualitativa brasileira
Authors: Lima Rita De Cássia Gabrielli Souza
Published: June 2024

Il commento mette in luce la sensibilità etico-politica di Tullio Seppilli, come mostra l‘intervista su rischio e salute che l‘autrice ha condotto durante il dottorato di ricerca. Alimentato da una continua generosità, l‘incontro ha propiziato la condivisione di un patrimonio unico, nel contesto di un orizzonte scientifico e di maturità epistemologica.
La salute come bene comune
Authors: Papa Cristina
Published: June 2024

Il contributo mostra come la nozione della salute come bene comune, centrale nell’intervista di Rita Lima a Tullio Seppilli, si collochi all’interno dell’itinerario scientifico di Seppilli nel quadro delle politiche e dei problemi relativi alla salute e all’assistenza sanitaria in un mondo globalizzato.
Antropologia e mutazioni globali del tardo capitalismo: Note al margine di Teoria dal sud del mondo di Jean e John L. Comaroff
Authors: Minelli Massimiliano
Published: June 2024

Nota critica su Jean Comaroff, John L. Comaroff, Teoria dal sud del mondo. Ovvero, come l’Euro-America sta evolvendo verso l’Africa, traduzione di Mario Capello, Introduzione all’edizione italiana di Cecilia Pennacini, Rosenberg & Sellier, Torino, 2019, pp. 316 [ed. ing. Theory from the South.Or, how Euro-America is evolving toward Africa, Routledge, London, 2012, pp. 272]
David Graeber (1961-2020): An anarchist and anthropological farewell to a “sudden thinker”
Authors: Dalakoglou Dimitris
Published: June 2024

The author remembers the figure of David Graeber recalling his anthropological career and his political commitment. He also tells of his friendship with Graeber, sketching a vivid portrait of his personality.
La voce della DEA: Esiti di un questionario su antropologia e comunicazione in Italia
Authors: Basile Dario
Published: June 2024

Questo rapporto di ricerca presenta i risultati di un’indagine quantitativa su antropologia e mezzi di comunicazione di massa che tra maggio e giugno 2020 ha coinvolto, attraverso la somministrazione di questionari, tutti gli strutturati del settore scientifico-disciplinare M-DEA/01. L’obiettivo della survey era quello di quantificare la presenza degli accademici su giornali, radio e tv a livello locale, nazionale e internazionale. Ciò che emerge è che i mass media non sono molto frequentati dagli antropologi italiani: tre accademici su quattro comunicano poco attraverso i media e solo una minima parte dichiara di frequentarli in modo continuativo. In generale prevale una comunicazione a livello locale rispetto a quello nazionale e internazionale. Alcuni fattori personali, come il ruolo universitario, o di contesto, come la sede dell’ateneo, possono favorire l’apparizione su un determinato media. Si registra, infine, una correlazione positiva tra l’impegno in attività di Public Engagement e l’attivismo nella comunicazione. Nonostante la scarsa comunicazione extra-accademica (ma mediamente non inferiore a quella dei colleghi di altre discipline), gli antropologi italiani si dichiarano perlopiù favorevoli all’utilizzo dei mass media e del web per la disseminazione.
Racism: Continuity and metamorphosis
Authors: Rivera Annamaria
Published: June 2024

Racism is primarily a system of social relationships, characterized by inequality and power differences between social groups involved, and supported by a symbolic apparatus that is a constitutive part of it. This system tends to recycle some "classic" racist repertoires, especially the topoi of anti-semitism. The symbolic apparatus acts directly on the social, producing and reproducing discrimination, inequality, domination. To build or strengthen this system, the role of the media is crucial. Through them the “welding” between institutional racism and various forms of popular xenophobia or racism is realized.
Risposta ai commenti
Authors: Massenzio Marcello
Published: June 2024

Risposta ai commenti 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].
Comprendere i fascismi: Studi etnografici dell’estrema destra
Authors: Cammelli Maddalena Gretel
Published: June 2024

Nota critica su Douglas R. Holmes, Integralismi europei: Capitalismo veloce, multiculturalismo, neofascismo, edizione italiana e traduzione a cura di Bernardino Palumbo e Giovanni Pizza, Milano, Meltemi, 2020, pp. 375 [ed. or. Integral Europe: Fast-capitalism, multiculturalism, neofascism, Oxford e Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2000]; Emanuele Toscano, ed, Researching far-right movements: Ethics, methodologies, and qualitative inquiries, London and New York, Routledge, 2019, pp. 151; Stephen D. Ashe, Joel Busher, Graham Macklin, Aaron Winter, eds, Researching the far right. Theory, method and practice, London and New York, Routledge, 2021, pp. 411.
Sabrina Tosi Cambini, Altri confini: Storia, mobilità e migrazioni di una rete di famiglie rudari tra la Romania e l’Italia, Mimesis, Milano, 2021, pp. 274
Authors: Şerban Stelu
Published: June 2024

Recensione di Sabrina Tosi Cambini, Altri confini: Storia, mobilità e migrazioni di una rete di famiglie rudari tra la Romania e l’Italia, Mimesis, Milano, 2021, pp. 274.
Per Martine Segalen
Authors: Giampaoli (ed) Michelangelo
Published: June 2024

Forum in memoria di Martine Segalen. Contributi di Christian Bromberger, Adriano Favole, Michelangelo Giampaoli, Marco Antonio da Silva Mello & Felipe Berocan Veiga, Cristina Papa, David Robichaux, Pier Giorgio Solinas, Françoise Zonabend. Con una intervista a Martine Segalen, a cura di Adriano Favole.
The work in progress: Preliminary notes
Authors: Fanelli Antonio
Published: June 2024

Introductory note to the book forum on Ernesto De Martino, La fine del mondo. Contributo all'analisi delle apocalissi culturali, new edition edited by Giordana Charuty, Daniel Fabre and Marcello Massenzio, 2019 [ed. fr. La fin du monde. Essai sur les apocalypses culturelles, Éditions EHESS, 2016].
Quanto etica è l’eticità? Interpretazioni culturali lungo la filiera del diamante canadese
Authors: Armano Linda
Published: June 2024

L’industria mineraria è stata travolta da preoccupazioni riguardanti l’inquinamento del suolo e dell’aria, gestioni del lavoro poco etiche e violazioni dei diritti umani. Rintracciando interpretazioni culturali del concetto di eticità relativamente ai diamanti canadesi, questo contributo problematizza i significati della certificazione dei diamanti etici canadesi e la loro tracciabilità lungo la filiera. Specificatamente, l’autrice evidenzia che più ci si allontana dal contesto estrattivo canadese, più il concetto di eticità legato al diamante si fa nitido grazie a narrazioni pubblicitarie, mentre più ci si avvicina al contesto di indagine, più il concetto di eticità diventa offuscato, eterogeneo, frammentato e incomprensibile. In particolare, il contributo si basa su una ricerca etnografica multi-situata e multi-scala a Yellowknife, la capitale dei Northwest Territories, e in una gioielleria italiana che vende diamanti estratti nella regione canadese. L’autrice ha notato che gli italiani intervistati che vendono ed acquistano diamanti canadesi sono fedeli alla retorica pubblicitaria sui diamanti etici canadesi, mentre particolari categorie professionali assunte dalle multinazionali nel contesto estrattivo dei Northwest Territories evitavano di parlare di diamanti etici. il contributo mira a comprendere quindi il significato di tale reticenza nel contesto minerario analizzato.
Michael Herzfeld, Roman restaurant rhythms, filmed and produced by Michael Herzfeld, Berkeley Media, 2011, 25’; Anna Casella, Sapori & saperi: Cibi, ricette e culture del mondo, prefazione di Carlo Petrini, Firenze, Ed.it, 2012, pp. 233
Authors: Faldini Luisa , Guigoni Alessandra
Published: June 2024

Book review of Michael Herzfeld, Roman restaurant rhythms, filmed and produced by Michael Herzfeld, Berkeley Media, 2011, 25’; Anna Casella, Sapori & saperi. Cibi, ricette e culture del mondo, prefazione di Carlo Petrini, Firenze, Ed.it, 2012, pp. 233.
Carole Counihan, Attivismo alimentare in Sardegna: Luoghi, sapori e comunità, Torino, Rosenberg & Sellier, 2020, pp. 248
Authors: Lai Franco
Published: June 2024

Recensione di Carole Counihan, Attivismo alimentare in Sardegna: Luoghi, sapori e comunità, Torino, Rosenberg & Sellier, 2020, pp. 248.
Adriano Favole, ed, L’Europa d’Oltremare, Milano, Raffaello Cortina Editore, 2020, pp. 280
Authors: Cao Umberto
Published: June 2024

Recensione di Adriano Favole, ed, L’Europa d’Oltremare, Milano, Raffaello Cortina Editore, 2020, pp. 280.
Cirese 101: Notas mexicanas con un saludo al modo antiguo
Authors: González Jorge A.
Published: June 2024

Contributo a Anniversary Forum Cirese 101: Rileggere le “Osservazioni sul folclore” di Antonio Gramsci, Antonio Maria Pusceddu, Filippo M. Zerilli, a cura di, Anuac, 11, 1, 2022.
Cirese 101: Rereading Antonio Gramsci’s “Observations on Folklore”
Authors: Pusceddu Antonio Maria , Zerilli (eds) Filippo M.
Published: June 2024

This Anniversary Forum commemorates the figure and work of Alberto Mario Cirese (1921-2011), a prominent Italian anthropologist, on the 101st anniversary of his birth. Cirese’s reading of Gramsci has been highly influential. For this reason, the forum is built around the re-edition of the English translation of Cirese’s essay Gramsci’s Observations on folklore: Conceptions of the world, spontaneous philosophy and class instinct. The essay is followed by short critical interventions of attentive readers of Gramsci’s anthropology: Kate Crehan, Riccardo Ciavolella, Giovanni Pizza. The forum ends with a contribution by Jorge A. González, who recalls his encounter and relation with Cirese, while offering new historical insights on Cirese’s teaching, study and research activities in Mexico.
Maria Aparecida Barbosa, Meritxell Hernando Marsal, Patricia Peterle, eds, Literatura de vanguarda e política – o século revisitado, Niterói, Comunità, 2012, pp. 186
Authors: Fogaça Aline
Published: June 2024

Book review of Maria Aparecida Barbosa, Meritxell Hernando Marsal, Patricia Peterle, eds, 2012, Literatura de vanguarda e política – o século revisitado, Niterói, Comunità, 2012, pp. 186.
Michael Oppitz first honorary member of the South Tyrolean Anthropological Association
Authors: Stampa Comunicato
Published: June 2024

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Guilty of lese-racism: A court judgement for the crime of union of conjugal nature between citizens and subjects
Authors: Gabrielli Gianluca
Published: June 2024

The text  takes its cue from a 1939 court judgment regarding a “racial” crime and goes on to analyse the characteristics of fascist colonial racism, which throughout this period was undergoing significant changes. The assertion of the superiority of   the “white race” moves from common social discrimination of the liberal period, to an assertion of superiority codified in law and the basis of the native policy. The custom of white men (usually soldiers) taking local black women as sexual partners – so-called “madamato”, which was both  racist and sexist, becomes the main target of State repression, in  the name of a rigid separation and hierarchical classification of the “races”.
Diamonds and development: A critical analysis of stereotypes about mineworkers in Sierra Leone
Authors: D’Angelo Lorenzo
Published: June 2024

In the last decade, the Sierra Leone’s diamond mines have been the focus of an intense debate among analysts and experts of the development. Two main interrelated issues have been at stake in this debate: first, to understand the economic and political reasons that had supported the civil war from 1991 to 2002 and, second, to understand how to convert a potential “conflict commodity” in a resource for peace and prosperity. In this paper, I intend to highlight some recurring stereotypes of this debate. In particular, I will focus on a constellation of representations that depict the artisanal miners either as workers poorly organized and prone to irrational economic behavior, or as workers subjected to forms of exploitation akin to slavery. Based on fieldwork conducted in the diamond mining areas of Sierra Leone (2007-2011), this article intends to analyze the main forms of working organization and distribution of earnings among the miners. By challenging some stereotypes characterizing the development discourse, my aim is to show the cultural complexity and the historical density of the practices through which the miners face the risks and uncertainties of their job.
Can Theatre contribute to the identity awareness?
Authors: Sini Maria Alessia
Published: June 2024

The purpose of this article is to understand what connection there might be, and whether it can be significant, including the specific cultural and artistic expression represented by the theater and that particular social event consisting of the historical events related to the dictatorship, the desaparecidos and the changes wich followed.
Antiziganism: Interpretative tools and contemporary phenomenology
Authors: Tosi Cambini Sabrina
Published: June 2024

The article is divided into three parts. The first concerns the concept of Anti-Gypsyism; the second, the stereotypes and the research conducted by the author on the alleged kidnapping by Roma; concludes with a discussion about the link between Anti-Gypsyism, power and urban space. Anti-Gypsyism is a distinct type of racist ideology. It is, at the same time, similar, different, and intertwined with many other types of racism. Anti- Gypsyism is used to justify and perpetrate the exclusion and supposed inferiority of Roma and is based on historical persecution and negative stereotypes (see also V. Nicolae 2006). According to Herzfeld (1997) stereotypes can be used for trade or in situations of conflict in which questions of identity are played out. Individuals and social groups appropriate these collective imaginations and use them to reify their sense of collective self. The analysis of cases of alleged kidnapping clearly shows the “baby-stealing Gypsies” stereotype in action and exemplar in action and how it produces effects of reality. Drawing on an ethnographic study on the cases of alleged kidnapping of non-Romani children by Roma and Sinti adults in Italy, the research demonstrates how negative stereotyping which construct the Roma as dangerous nomadic people, foreigners from whom society must be protected, can affect their treatment by prosecutors, lawyers and judges in the Italian judicial system. The conflation of Romani identity with nomadic lifestyle features widely in Italian public discourse on the Roma and, as it has been validly pointed out in scholarly debate (Piasere 1991; Brunello 1996; Sigona 2002), has gone some way towards building differential treatment towards Romani groups in particular in relation to housing policies and the spread of ‘nomad camps’ (Sigona 2005).