bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
A Study of the Relationship between Stress and Mental Health of Students at Naresuan University During the Spread of the Covid-19
Authors: Anusaksathien Kantabhat
Published: June 2024

The purposes of this research were to study the relationship between stress and mental health status of Naresuan University students during the outbreak of the Coronavirus 2019. It was a survey with a sample of 550 students conducted online by using a personal information questionnaire, the Suanprung Stress Test-20 and the Thai General Health Questionnaire. The results showed that most of the students in this study, 207 out of 550, were moderately stressed (average of 34.71) and, 166 out of 550, had mental health problems (average of 12.51). The most students had mental health problems of anxiety and insomnia followed by physical symptoms, severe depression, and social disability. From the study of the differences in stress and mental health classified by personal factors, it was found that different gender, age level and average monthly income had no correlation with stress and mental health. The study also found that stress and mental health problems had a statistically significant positive relationship at the .01 level during the outbreak of the Covid-19. In conclusion, the Covid-19 had an effect on stress and mental health of Naresuan University students with a moderate positive correlation with statistical significance at the .01 level.
Book Review: High-risk Feminism in Colombia: Women’s Mobilization in Violent Contexts
Authors: เบ็ญจนาวี กัมปนาท , สัตยวินิจ ธัชชนก
Published: June 2024

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On modelling student’s resilience in learning statistics at a distance
Authors: Casinillo Leomarich
Published: June 2024

Learning statistics online during the COVID-19 pandemic became a challenging experience for most students in higher institutions. This study aimed to measure the students’ level of resilience and determine its influencing factors in distance learning during the pandemic. Data from an availability sampling of 129 engineering students were gathered with the aid of a Google form survey. The study used some descriptive measures and employed a regression modeling approach to extract detailed information from the survey data. Results showed that, on average, students were considered “resilient” in learning statistics during the pandemic. Statistical models revealed that sex, number of family members, household assets, and level of how conducive learning at home are significant predictors of students’ resilience. Additionally, the model showed that male students are more resilient compared to female students. Lastly, more family members and household assets can increase students’ resilience level as well as a comfortable place (at home) for learning. Hence, the study suggests that teachers must strengthen the interest of students especially female students by showing them a good attitude that promotes well-being. Furthermore, teachers must regularly monitor their learning progress, and provide comfortable and reasonable learning activities suitable for distance learning.
Investigating the Implementation of Public Spaces Protection Orders
Authors:   , Archer Benjamin
Published: June 2024

Public Spaces Protection Orders (PSPOs) are spatial tools in England and Wales that regulate the anti-social behaviour of those in a designated public space, where punishment for breach can include a £100 fixed-penalty notice or a fine of up to £1,000. This thesis examines the decision-making that underpins the implementation of PSPOs by local authorities, with specific consideration given to their use against vulnerable communities, particularly those experiencing street homelessness. A multiple-case study research design was employed, which sampled nine local authorities in England. In 2020, qualitative, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 32 participants, constituting local authority employees, police officers, and elected officials. Using a combination of governance, preventive justice, street-level bureaucracy, and procedural justice theories as analytical lenses, this thesis makes several empirical contributions to knowledge. The findings reveal that the vague statutory requirements for imposing PSPOs increase the adoption of practices that are perceivably accountable by practitioners, but that these orders punitively target the conduct of three marginalised groups: people experiencing street homelessness, young people, and disadvantaged neighbourhoods. New insights have also been revealed concerning the relationship between local authorities and police officers in this context; exploring obstacles in partnership working through a lack of clear communication channels and divergent opinions on the jurisdiction of PSPOs. Additionally, this research sheds light on the significant personnel resourcing that is required to effectively implement PSPOs, and the impact of austerity-related budget cuts on their enforcement. The findings demonstrate that PSPOs are complicated tools for local authorities to introduce. This thesis recommends that the government strengthen the statutory framework for PSPOs to ensure that practitioners are consistent and proportionate in their application.
Production and biological properties of nano porous glass microparticles for anticancer drug carrier
Authors: Ertu Emre Burak , Gulbahce-Mutlu Elif , Alpa Serife , Ozturk Abdullah
Published: June 2024

Nanoporous glass (NPG) microparticles were produced by conventional melt-quenching followed by acid-alkali leaching to get material for anticancer drug carriers. NPG exhibited a positive zeta potential of 34 mV after [3-(2-aminoethylamino) propyl] trimethoxysilane treatment. The specific surface area and the total pore volume of NPG were 47.3 m2/g and 0.692 cm3/g, respectively. The 5-Fluorouracil (5FU) loading capacity of NPG was measured as 18.2 ± 0.2 mg5FU/gNPG. The drug release rate was monitored for 120 hours. To evaluate the cytotoxic effects of NPG on both MCF-7 breast cancer cells and MCF-12A, an immortalized cell line, the study employed the 2,3-bis [2-methoxy-4-nitro-5-sulfophenyl]-2H-tetrazolium5-carboxanilide inner salt (XTT) assay. The XTT results revealed that NPG showed a time and concentration-dependent cytotoxic effect. It is anticipated that NPG is a safe and effective material for drug delivery systems for in vitro and a promising alternative material for in vivo applications.
Box-Behnken guided development of an ecofriendly RP-HPLC analytical method for simultaneous quantification of pantoprazole sodium and piperine co-loaded mucoadhesive GRDDS formulation for H. pylori eradication
Authors: Gupta Ashutosh , Mutalik Srinivas , Navti Prerana D. , Saha Moumita , Moorkoth Sudheer , Shetty Shiran
Published: June 2024

Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection is the leading cause of chronic peptic ulcer disease worldwide. Many treatment options are available to treat H. pylori infection. However, the eradication is still a challenge due to the poor bioavailability of the currently available formulations. To improve the efficacy of therapy, novel formulations are necessary. Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) are already a part of the treatment regimen with antibiotics. P-glycoprotein (P-gp) inhibitor was reported to have increased the efficacy of antibiotic treatment in H. pylori infections. To make available the P-gp inhibitor and PPI on the intestinal mucosal surface we have formulated a gastroretentive drug delivery system (GRDDS) as an adjuvant therapy with antibiotics. The objective of this study is to simultaneously estimate pantoprazole (PAN) and piperine (PIP) by reverse-phase (RP) high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) method from the chitosan-based sodium alginate mucoadhesive beads utilizing the design of experiments (DOEs) methodology. The HPLC settings were optimized using DOEs software. The final optimized HPLC method used a hyperclone Octadecylsilane C18 column as the stationary phase and methanol: ammonium acetate at pH 4.5 (70:30 v/v) as the mobile phase. The flow rate was 0.9 ml/minute. The validation of the developed RP-HPLC method was done as per the International Conference on Harmonization (ICH) Q2(R1) guideline. The method was linear from 0.5 to 20 μg/ml for both PAN and PIP with an R2 value of 0.999 and 0.999, respectively. The validated RP-HPLC method showed specificity for both drugs despite interference from degradation products and other GRDDS excipients. The entrapment efficiency of the final formulation was determined to be 80%–85% for PAN and 60%–67% for PIP. The novelty and merit of the DOE-based method development are that it reduces the number of trials, thereby reducing reagent wastage, and is environmentally friendly suggested by the Green Analytical Procedure Index (GAPI) tool scoring six green, six yellow, and three red.
The Vincenzo Bellini Garden in Catania: An anthropological perspective
Authors: Giglitto Danilo
Published: June 2024

This article is linked to the field of urban anthropology. The aim of my work was to investigate the “Giardino comunale Vincenzo Bellini” in Catania as a turning point for the civic and cultural life within urban space. The study moved from the idea that “Giardino Bellini” is not only a central urban space due to its position and history, but also represents a perfect location for reading social dynamics which are crucial in the city life. A “Villa” – so is the Giardino Bellini better known by Cataneses – can therefore assume a great anthropological significance, which was studied through a placed and relationship-wise analysis. However, this was open to a diachronic perspective able to understand how civic memories converge in this space-urban hub.
Survival International vs. Diamond, Pinker, Chagnon
Authors: Casella Francesca
Published: June 2024

Comment on Survival International vs. Diamond, Pinker, Chagnon.
Walter Baroni, Contro l’intercultura: Retoriche e pornografia dell’incontro, Verona, Ombre Corte, 2013, pp. 171
Authors: Trucco Daniela
Published: June 2024

Book review of Walter Baroni, Contro l’intercultura: Retoriche e pornografia dell’incontro, Verona, Ombre Corte, 2013, pp. 171.
Varia
Authors: VVAA VVAA
Published: June 2024

Review of various congresses.
“To not give them the chance to forget”: Postcolonial narratives of Italian-Ethiopian writers
Authors: Pili Eliana
Published: June 2024

Within the so-called “Italian literature of migration‟, a conspicuous corpus of texts is represented by autobiographies/memoirs/novels written by women-writers coming from the Horn of Africa. This literary wave, which emerged in the early Nineties is usually labelled as “Italian postcolonial literature” and includes many works of Ethiopian authors. The essay focuses on the thematic and linguistic aspects of this production and refers particularly to the texts published by Gabriella Ghermandi, Martha Nasibù, Carla Macoggi and Maria Abbebù Viarengo. The last section of the present study suggests a comparison between these writings and the Ethiopian diasporic literature in English produced by Nega Mezlekia, Maaza Mengiste and Dinaw Mengestu.
Elisabetta La Lumera, Cosa sono i concetti, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2009, pp. 179
Authors: Lutri Alessandro
Published: June 2024

Book review of Elisabetta La Lumera, Cosa sono i concetti, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2009, pp. 179.
“You will be eternal as time and you will bloom every Spring”: The football team as an identity phenomenon
Authors: Branca Domenico
Published: June 2024

The following article analyses the football game as an identity phenomenon. Football has ceased to be simply a sport to become something extremely complex and articulated, from a politic, economic, social, and cultural point of view. Its diffusion on a global scale has produced and produces identity forms of affirmation and differentiation. These forms concern the name of the team, the geographical and social-economic position of the club and its supporters, the politic-religious identification and the violence and sectarianism that it usually involves. The last part of the article introduces a research – work in progress – about the self-perception, the meaning and the value that Club Atlético Peñarol from Montevideo has for their supporters. The text concludes willing to prove how football is today stimulated by a dialectical tension between two nowadays processes like globalization and identity. At this point, the article mentions the establishment of non-recognized squads such as the ones formed by nations without a state that, through football, claim their voice.
Vittorio Lanternari, great scholar of socio-cultural and religious changes
Authors: Colajanni Antonino
Published: June 2024

In memory of Vittorio Lanternari (1918-2010).
The self-help literature and the power of the mind
Authors: Bernardo Schettini Marques Monica
Published: June 2024

The aim of this article is to offer a better understanding of the self-help literature, perceiving its appeals and meanings to the public. Two special moments in the history of self-help books are analyzed: the productions of New Thought authors and contemporary mentalists publications. We pay attention to the recurrence of the old topics of the American movement in the latest production, realizing that the idea of mind power, which was in the basis of the movement, remains strong and connected to individualism and the demands of contemporary society.
Alexander Koensler, Amalia Rossi, eds, Comprendere il dissenso: Etnografia e antropologia dei movimenti sociali, Perugia, Morlacchi Editore, University Press, 2012, pp. 236
Authors: Casula Claudio
Published: June 2024

Book review of Alexander Koensler, Amalia Rossi, eds, Comprendere il dissenso: etnografia e antropologia dei movimenti sociali, Perugia, Morlacchi Editore, University Press, 2012, pp. 236.
“The meeting between Buddhism and the West” in the French media-academic sphere: A theosophical soteriology
Authors: Dapsance Marion
Published: June 2024

This article deals with the persistence of theosophist worldviews in contemporary discourses on Buddhism in the West. It shows that some French intellectuals, working across the academic and the media spheres, though pretending to analyse the establishment of Buddhism in the West actually develop a soteriological discourse focused on a reified entity called “the West”. They thus contribute not only to Occidentalism (Carrier, 1995) but also to a Messianic reinterpretation of the Buddhist religion. The first part of this paper describes how those intellectuals refuse to characterize this tradition, except by opposition to what is known – Christianity, religion, science, Modernity. The second part examines the historical and ideological roots of this soteriology. Finally, the third part explores some of its concrete applications.
Sahlins, kinship, to be and not to be: It's not a problem
Authors: Solinas Pier Giorgio
Published: June 2024

Review article of Marshall Sahlins, La parentela: cos’è e cosa non è, Milano, Eleuthèra, 2014, pp. 128 (ed. or. What Kinship is–And is Not, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2013, pp. 120).
Food: Produire, Manger, Consommer, MuCEM (Musée des Civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée), Marsiglia, 29 ottobre 2014 – 23 febbraio 2015
Authors: Tedeschi Federica
Published: June 2024

Review of Food: Produire, Manger, Consommer, MuCEM (Musée des Civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée), Marsiglia, 29 ottobre 2014 – 23 febbraio 2015.
Cosmopolitismi liminari: Strategie di identità e categorizzazione tra cultura e classe nelle occupazioni a scopo abitativo a Roma
Authors: Vereni Piero
Published: June 2024

Le occupazioni a scopo abitativo a Roma vedono un numero elevato di stranieri partecipare attivamente come occupanti, pur se sono poco numerosi nella leadership politica dei movimenti che organizzano gli squat. La presenza degli stranieri, inoltre, è sistematicamente non-marcata nel discorso dei comitati e invece marcata nella rappresentazione dei media. Il saggio ricostruisce alcune delle motivazioni di questa conformazione della presenza straniera nei comitati di occupazione. Da un lato, la loro condizione di stranieri nel sistema italiano di welfare li espone più facilmente all’emarginazione; d’altro canto, la leadership politica dei Movimenti vede negli stranieri (in quanto portatori di una condizione di classe) un bacino di aggregazione per il progetto più latamente politico delle occupazioni (praticare un modello alternativo di vita urbana). Del resto, gli stranieri possono prendere parte alle occupazioni anche come forma autoprodotta di emancipazione sociale, visto che occupare può significare, bene o male, giungere a un possesso abitativo altrimenti inarrivabile. In questa contraddizione di finalità, le occupazioni multietniche diventano spazi cosmopoliti di identità che accettano di trascendere lo specifico etnico per travasarsi in una forma condivisa di identità di classe, tra proletariato rivoluzionario e piccola borghesia alla ricerca della piena integrazione.
Creating new connections: Objects, people, and digital data at the Musée du quai Branly
Authors: Beltrame Tiziana Nicoletta
Published: June 2024

This article presents the new cultural heritage regime of the Musée du quai Branly’s collection through an analysis of the digitization of records for objects and documentary data. Non-European collections, notably those at the Musée de l’Homme, have been reconfigured within the new institution. The ‘ethnographic’ artifact, which was once a scientific object, has become a ‘work of art and civilization’ a heritage object registered at the Service des Musées de France. Documentary data, which used to be recorded on paper, was entered into a new classification system: the TMS objects database, here conceived as a social space and a space of knowledge shared by different actors. A study of the informational infrastructure shows how connections are created between humans, objects, and digital data. Analysis of this reconfiguration leads to an examination of the materiality of the digital environment. Classifications depend on material storage systems. Manipulating digital data allows for new working methods in creating an inventory, in particular new associations among data offering new possibilities for bringing together isolated objects and collections in unique ways.
Islamism and terror: A great jihad against the common sense
Authors: Koensler Alexander
Published: June 2024

What implies the conversion to fundamentalist Islam? What are the repercussions and implications of ‘political Islam’ in specific contexts? The relation between Islam, democracy and violence is often represented in a reductive or simplistic way. In order to contribute to a reasoned debate on these pressing questions, this essay covers some key dynamics stemming from long-term ethnographic observation regarding the conversion to neo Salafism among Arab Bedouin citizens in southern Israel, placing them in the context of contemporary developments of Islamic political thought. The ethnographic sensitivity, combined with the voices of some eminent Islamic intellectuals, allows to go beyond both the rhetoric of cultural complexity and the common-sense view that Islamic terrorism would be a kind of ‘anti imperialism of the losers’, arguments employed often to contest emerging neo-orientalist discourses. In this sense, the essay states the need to shed light on coordinates and interpretative categories that are not placed in an essentially different but in often unexpected ways.
The micro-social revival: Places, contexts and networks in the urban anthropology of Michel Agier
Authors: González Díez Javier
Published: June 2024

Review article of Michel Agier, L’invention de la ville: Banlieues, townships, invasions et favelas, Amsterdam, Éditions des archives contemporaines, 1999, pp. 173; Michel Agier, Esquisses d’une anthropologie de la ville: Lieux, situations, mouvements, Louvain-la-Neuve, Bruylant-Academia, 2009, pp. 158; Michel Agier, Anthropologie de la ville, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 2015, pp. 245.
Amalia Signorelli, Ernesto de Martino: Teoria antropologica e metodologia della ricerca, Roma, L’Asino d’oro, 2015, pp. XXII-137
Authors: Fanelli Antonio
Published: June 2024

Book review of Amalia Signorelli, Ernesto de Martino: Teoria antropologica e metodologia della ricerca, Roma, L’Asino d’oro, 2015, pp. XXII-137.
Kinship existence and resistance
Authors: Guizzardi Luca
Published: June 2024

Comment on Pier Giorgio Solinas, Sahlins, la parentela, essere e non essere: non è un problema, Anuac. Vol. 4, n° 1, dicembre 2015: 189-195.
The manifold natural foundation of the social
Authors: Vereni Piero
Published: June 2024

Comment on Pier Giorgio Solinas, Sahlins, la parentela, essere e non essere: non è un problema, Anuac. Vol. 4, n° 1, dicembre 2015: 189-195.
Chiara Vangelista, ed, Areia: Le nuove immigrazioni tra Europa e America Latina, Roma, CISU, 2011, pp. 136
Authors: Zega Fulvia
Published: June 2024

Book review of Chiara Vangelista, ed, Areia: Le nuove immigrazioni tra Europa e America Latina, Roma, CISU, 2011, pp. 136.
From science to art and back again: the pendulum of an anthropologist
Authors: Ingold Tim
Published: June 2024

L’articolo guarda indietro quattro decenni di carriera da antropologo, iniziati con un orientamento fortemente sbilanciato verso le scienze naturali, per concludersi con un progetto che cerca di integrare l’antropologia con le pratiche artistiche, l’architettura e il design. È stato anche un periodo in cui la scienza è venuta perdendo sempre più il suo orientamento ecologico, mentre le arti lo hanno invece ulteriormente guadagnato. Nel tracciare il mio percorso di insegnamento e ricerca, mostro come sono mutati i punti di riferimento letterari, a partire da alcuni testi fondativi dell’ecologia umana e animale, ora per lo più dimenticati, attraverso tentativi di coniugare il sociale e l’ecologico ispirati al revival marxiano, fino alle scritture contemporanee sul post-umanesimo e la condizione dell’Antropocene. Era questa una scienza fondata sulla tacita meraviglia per la splendida bellezza del mondo naturale e in silenziosa gratitudine per ciò che ad esso dobbiamo per la nostra esistenza. La scienza odierna, tuttavia, ha mercificato la meraviglia e la gratitudine. Esse non guidano più le sue pratiche di ricerca, ma sono piuttosto invocate per pubblicizzarne i risultati. Finalità della scienza sono ormai la modellizzazione, la predizione e il controllo. Non è per questo motivo che ci volgiamo sempre più all’arte per riscoprire l’umiltà che la scienza ha perduto?
Scalar holism: Some methodological reflections on Bucharest's religious mega-projects
Authors: Tateo Giuseppe
Published: June 2024

Questo articolo rappresenta un tentativo di analizzare i recenti sviluppi del panorama religioso a Bucarest utilizzando i concetti di scala e olismo. Nella prima sezione l’autore ripropone una serie di argomenti per riconoscere l’impronta olista di alcune correnti dell’ antropologia urbana contemporanea. Ne deriva che uno specifico approccio metodologico – che chi scrive definisce “olismo scalare” – puo rivelarsi utile nell’analisi di fenomeni religiosi in contesto urbano. Una descrizione piú approfondita di uno studio di caso (ossia la costruzione della cattedrale nazionale) e la presentazione di altro materiale etnografico raccolto nell’inverno del 2015 compongono invece la seconda parte dello scritto. Bucarest è oggi un’arena animata da specifiche forme di revival religioso, strategie di ri-consacrazione del paesaggio urbano e derive anticlericali. Al fine di comprendere come tali processi sociali interagiscano fra loro, l’autore suggerisce che diverse grandezze di scala (da quella delle istituzioni che operano su scala nazionale a reazioni micro osservate nella realtá locale della capitale) devono essere prese necessariamente in considerazione.
Davide Sparti, Sul tango: L’improvvisazione intima, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2015, pp. 221
Authors: Ronzon Francesco
Published: June 2024

Recensione di Davide Sparti, Sul tango: L’improvvisazione intima, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2015, pp. 221.
Elisabeth Tauber, Dorothy Zinn, eds, The public value of anthropology: Engaging critical social issues through ethnography, Bozen/Bolzano University Press, 2015, pp. 174
Authors: Pawlak Marek
Published: June 2024

Recensione di Elisabeth Tauber, Dorothy Zinn, eds, The public value of anthropology: Engaging critical social issues through ethnography, Bozen/Bolzano University Press, 2015, pp. 174.
Cinema and landscape: reflections from a film programme
Authors: Cubero Carlo , Barone Enrico
Published: June 2024

Recensione del film programme della Finnish Anthropological Society Conference (Landscapes, Sociality & Materiality, Helsinki 21-22 October 2015).
Women in charge: Contemporary Inuit artists
Authors: Faldini Luisa
Published: June 2024

Review of Women in charge. Artiste inuit contemporanee.
Anthropology and finance capitalism. Remarks in the Brexit’s aftermath
Authors: Papa Cristina
Published: June 2024

This article aims to bring attention to a predominantly anthropological literature that poses important questions about the influence of the financial world on our daily lives and on the lives of businesses. Although this literature remains scarcely present in the anthropological debate in Italy, the latest crisis following Brexit invites us to consider more carefully those connections that began to expand from the finance sector not only across different economic sectors, but also to broader social and cultural realities. In particular, the ethnography of finance offers since the early Nineties many important insights into the world of flexible and competitive forms of life of stockbrokers, ranging from analysis of their social identity, the deconstruction of the ideology of the infallibility and the rationality of financial practices, and the analysis of the implementation and extension of these practices to real economy models of businesses and the creation of widespread job insecurity, implemented not only in the poorest countries. In sum, the article suggests lines of ethnographic research able to cross traditional partitions of anthropological knowledge with the purpose to provide a critical analysis able to offerr a reinterpretation of new forms of inequality and of the new contradictions of the contemporary world.
An anthropologist in parallel structure
Authors: Molé Liston Noelle
Published: June 2024

The essay examines the parallels between Molé Liston’s studies on labor and precarity in Italy and the United States’ anthropology job market. Probing the way economic shift reshaped the field of anthropology of Europe in the late 2000s, the piece explores how the neoliberalization of the American academy increased the value in studying the hardships and daily lives of non-western populations in Europe.
Teaching anthropology in Poland
Authors: Buchowski Michał , Červinková Hana
Published: June 2024

Contribution to the Forum Teaching Anthropology in the Secondary School, Anuac, vol. 5, n° 2.
Comporre un mondo comune? Riflessioni intorno alla svolta ontologica in antropologia
Authors: Benadusi Mara , Lutri Alessandro , Sturm Circe
Published: June 2024

Questa sezione tematica s’iscrive all’interno del dibattito sulla cosiddetta svolta ontologica che, a partire dagli anni Novanta del Novecento, ha cercato di rispondere a urgenti pressioni di natura ecologica e socio-politica intensificando lo studio dei modi di identificazione e relazione del mondo umano con quello non umano. Riprendendo in chiave critica alcuni assunti teorici di questo filone di studi, la sezione tematica si propone di sondare le ricomposizioni tra agenti umani e non-umani che si formano in tre contesti etnografici: il mondo delle piante in una comunità italiana di antroposofi, i manufatti digitali attraverso cui il mondo internazionale coinvolto nella gestione delle catastrofi cerca di visualizzare e rendere esperibile le minacce che incombono sul pianeta, e le contese intorno all’energia eolica nel Messico meridionale. Calandosi nella relazione che i collettivi umani intrattengono con piante, agenti atmosferici, “forze naturali” e artefatti digitali, gli autori prendono di petto le sfide che diversi assemblaggi tra umani e non umani pongono su un piano politico nei casi presi in esame. In sintesi, proponendo una lettura “onto-politica” basata sulla pratica etnografica, la sezione da un lato cerca di testare la praticabilità dell’approccio ontologico in diversi terreni d’indagine, dall’altro la sua capacità di disporsi all’analisi politica e ad una irrevocabile traducibilità pubblica.
Notas de etnografía aymara
Authors: Métraux Alfred
Published: June 2024

Questo testo è la traduzione in italiano e in spagnolo di una nota etnografica di Alfred Métraux, pubblicata in francese nel Journal de la Société des Américanistes nel 1954. Si tratta del primo di una serie di articoli che raccolgono i materiali di una ricerca condotta per le Nazioni Unite sulle Ande peruviane e boliviane negli anni ’50, incentrata in particolare sulle migrazioni interne delle popolazioni aymara e quechua. Métraux descrive la presa di servizio delle nuove autorità tradizionali in occasione del primo giorno del nuovo anno a Yunguyo (Perú), rituali di tipo agricolo e funerario, la celebrazione della Vergine di Copacabana (Bolivia), oltre a trascrivere una petizione di aymara boliviani dei primi anni ’50.
Ludger Müller-Wille, eds, Franz Boas, Diari e lettere (1883-1884) tra gli Inuit dell'Isola di Baffin, edizione italiana a cura di Enzo Vinicio Alliegro, Firenze, SEID Editori, 2014, pp. 438
Authors: Colajanni Antonino
Published: June 2024

Recensione di Ludger Müller-Wille, eds, Franz Boas, Diari e lettere (1883-1884) tra gli Inuit dell'Isola di Baffin, edizione italiana a cura di Enzo Vinicio Alliegro, Firenze, SEID Editori, 2014, pp. 438.
(Un)sustainable wind: Renewable energy, politics and ontology in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico
Authors: Zanotelli Francesco
Published: June 2024

The Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, southern Mexico, has recently become a sight of political struggle between, on the one hand, multinational corporations and the state, and on the other, some sectors of the indigenous population and regional and national social movements. The conflict involves several wind farm projects to be located on the communal land base and lagoons inhabited by Ikojts Indians and Zapotecos. This case highlights an urgent and widespread discussion about sustainable energy production and the alternative meanings attached to the idea of sustainability. According to indigenous categories of thought that emerge from myth and political practice, there is significant agency attributed to the environmental elements involved, particularly wind and water, and so it is useful to consider the relationship between human and non-human, and the collective formed by the person, animal, and air that is well-known in the literature about Mesoamerican ontology. The article adds to this traditional literature a focus on the local moral economy and the political economy of wider scale processes. Utilizing the concept of onto-politics, it investigates the relationship between the local and the global at the new frontier of ecological neoliberalism.
Micol Brazzabeni, Manuela Ivone Cunha, Martin Fotta, eds, Gypsy economy: Romani livelihoods and notions of worth in the 21st century, New York, Oxford, Berghahn, 2016, pp. 263
Authors: Pagura Francesca
Published: June 2024

Book review of Micol Brazzabeni, Manuela Ivone Cunha, Martin Fotta, eds, Gypsy Economy: Romani Livelihoods and Notions of Worth in the 21st Century, New York, Oxford, Berghahn, 2016, pp. 263.
Anuac per Ugo Fabietti: Neoliberal academy, antiziganisms, water futures, Chinese anthropology, and other public engagements
Authors: Zerilli Filippo M.
Published: June 2024

Presentazione del nuovo numero del Direttore della rivista.
Fabio Dei, Terrore suicida: Religione, politica e violenza nelle culture del martirio, Roma, Donzelli editore, 2016, pp. XVI-176
Authors: Di Pasquale Caterina
Published: June 2024

Recensione di Fabio Dei, Terrore suicida: Religione, politica e violenza nelle culture del martirio, Roma, Donzelli editore, 2016, pp. XVI-176.
The erosion of academic tenure in the U.S. and its ties to public neoliberal anti-intellectualism
Authors: Dominguez Virginia R.
Published: June 2024

This essay examines the erosion of tenure in the U.S. academy and its connections to the spread of neoliberal capitalist ideology in U.S. colleges and universities. It also explores how this affects anthropology departments since only a small part of anthropology is ever considered part of the STEM fields.
Engaged learning
Authors: Beck Sam
Published: June 2024

Engaged learning commits itself to community development and an active pedagogy as the state continues to withdraw funding from communities. Community engagement is a teaching, research and change mechanism for students who use ethnographic methods and experiential learning to practice citizenship and rehearse their roles in professional settings. Engaged learning provides the opportunity to explore “alternative moral frames for academic work”, for pedagogical innovation and for resistance against neoliberalism.
A regola d’arte: Collezione, montaggio e utopia nell’opera di Georges Adéagbo
Authors: Lusini Valentina
Published: June 2024

L’articolo presenta l’opera dell’artista beninese Georges Adéagbo, conosciuto per la realizzazione di complessi assemblaggi di oggetti recuperati, testi, sculture, segni eterogenei di cultura colta e popolare, immagini del mondo dei mass-media, elementi della tradizione orale, cultuale e letteraria di tempi e luoghi diversi che esemplificano la relazione spesso controversa tra conservazione e memoria. L’inclinazione archivistica include il ricorso a fonti e frammenti etnografici, fornendo una prospettiva decentrata che, interrogando le narrative dominanti e di senso comune, conduce a una riflessione su temi politici globali. L’opera di Adéagbo si muove nell'area estesa nel contatto interculturale in cui arte e antropologia mantengono una relazione stretta e complessa. Prendendo in esame questa relazione l’articolo sottolinea il ruolo dell’artista, delle istituzioni museali, dei critici e dei curatori nella produzione del valore e nelle strategie di consumo della differenza in un contesto culturale globale.
Per Tullio Seppilli: Un ricordo corale
Authors: Papa Cristina , Falteri Paola , Pitch Tamar , Giacchè Piergiorgio , Bartoli Paolo , Baronti Giancarlo , Santoni Romolo
Published: June 2024

Ricordo di Tullio Seppilli (1928-2017).
To work or not to work: In/formalization practices in the Italian public sector
Authors: Pusceddu Antonio Maria
Published: June 2024

This piece examines the position of workfare scheme recipients in the municipal administration of a southern Italian city. Looking at the interplay between different regulatory frameworks – from administrative to labour and welfare reforms – in a particular locale, I emphasize the analytical relevance of the formal-informal linkage in understanding the production of spheres of informality and negotiation within a bureaucracy.
Paesaggi sonori e etnografie del silenzio: Un’introduzione
Authors: Lai Franco
Published: June 2024

In questo articolo propongo una lettura degli studi sui paesaggi sonori lungo tre piani: la rilevanza del paesaggio sonoro in ambito storico, le trasformazioni dei paesaggi sonori nel Novecento, il paesaggio sonoro delle sub-culture musicali professionali. A partire dagli studi di R.M. Schafer (1977) e S. Feld (2009) mostro come gli studi sui paesaggi sonori siano stati portati avanti per comprendere la rilevanza istituzionale e politica del suono. Inoltre, cerco di mostrare le trasformazioni del paesaggio sonoro in relazione ai più vasti cambiamenti sociali, economici e tecnologici del Novecento. Infine, mostro come la città può rappresentare un contesto favorevole alla produzione e alla circolazione di forme culturali nuove e emblematiche dell’ambiente sonoro di una città.
Jon Harald Sande Lie, Developmentality. An Ethnography of the World Bank-Uganda Partnership, New York-Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2015, pp. 274
Authors: Quaretta Edoardo
Published: June 2024

Recensione di Jon Harald Sande Lie, Developmentality. An Ethnography of the World Bank-Uganda Partnership, New York-Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2015, pp. 274.
Veronica Strang, Water: Nature and culture, London, Reaktion Books, 2015, pp. 224
Authors: Mangiameli Gaetano
Published: June 2024

Book review of Veronica Strang, Water: Nature and culture, London, Reaktion Books, 2015, pp. 224.
Nous Sommes Foot, MuCEM - Musée des civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée, Marsiglia - 11 ottobre 2017 - 4 febbraio 2018
Authors: Buslacchi Maria Elena
Published: June 2024

Recensione della mostra Nous Sommes Foot, MuCEM - Musée des civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée, Marsiglia - 11 ottobre 2017 - 4 febbraio 2018.
What else to say about the MQB? Re-centring anthropology in art and French museum practices: A vision from an ex-boursier
Authors: Battaglia Giulia
Published: June 2024

This short piece investigates how “art” and “ethnography” have developed as two separated practices in ten years of existence of the Musée du quai Branly Jacques Chirac (MQB) and how “politics” has been widely missing. Writing from a personal experience as a postdoctoral ex-boursier and building on recent essays about the genesis of the museum, the author seeks to identify points of raptures existent not only in the MQB as a cultural institution but also within the system of French ethnology, which does not leave sufficient space for art to dialogue with ethnography, nor for politics to dialogue with aesthetics. Rather than depicting the MQB as a “post-ethnographic museum” (de l’Estoile 2015), the author identifies in the Musée a good terrain for creating an “ethno-art-graphic” museum, where creative ethnographic collections will eventually make both art and anthropology.
Evolution/Revolution: For an anthropology of Torah
Authors: Castaldini Alberto
Published: June 2024

The biblical narration has also a sociobiological and anthropological background. For this reason the Torah can be seen as the description of the historical-evolutionary path of the Jewish people and society, as well as of the construction of Jewish identity. In the difficult living conditions of the Jews along the history, the Torah was able to direct the social and cultural mechanisms imposed by the need to adapt to foreigner religious and political contexts. So it seems to emerge a true "genetic program" in the Torah and in the Talmud, the complexcode of ethics derived from it.
El lugar de los “otros”: procesos de racialización y construcción de la nación en América Latina
Authors: González Díez Javier
Published: June 2024

Nota crítica de Carlos López Beltrán, Peter Wade, Eduardo Restrepo, Ricardo Ventura Santos, eds, Genómica mestiza. Raza, nación y ciencia en Latinoamérica, México, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2017, pp. 432; Paula López Caballero, Indígenas de la nación. Etnografía histórica de la alteridad en México (Milpa Alta, siglos XVII-XXI), México, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2017, pp. 322; Tomás Pérez Vejo, Pablo Yankelevich, eds, Raza y política en Hispanoamérica, México, El Colegio de México / Bonilla Artiaga Editores, 2017, pp. 384.
Redefining ethnography «in the strict sense of the term»: Perspectives gained from non-standard, old-new fieldwork
Authors: Mathur Chandana
Published: June 2024

This essay reflects on the consequences for ethnography of the reversal of the direction of the anthropological encounter – what exactly happens when anthropologists from the Global South undertake fieldwork among populations in the Global North? I will argue that this does not merely correct historical imbalances of anthropological knowledge production, thereby changing the substance of that knowledge itself, although of course that is a goal worth pursuing, as has cogently been pointed out by the “world anthropologies” critique of hegemonic disciplinary practices. Using insights drawn from my own research site in the US heartland, where I conducted fieldwork initially in 1989-91, and then again during a “focused revisit” in 2015, I suggest that lasting misunderstandings between the anthropologist and the research participants are themselves a rich source of data and human possibility. My contention is that non-standard and long-term fieldwork of this kind may help reveal dimensions of the practice of ethnography that would otherwise remain obscured.
Editoriale: L’eredità etnografica di Malinowski, Gramsci antropologo, il politicamente corretto di Jonathan Friedman
Authors: Zerilli Filippo M.
Published: June 2024

Presentazione del nuovo numero del Direttore della rivista.
Babbucce, tunica e diadema... ovvero sui vestiti nuovi della DEA
Authors: Benadusi Mara
Published: June 2024

Commento di Berardino Palumbo, Lo strabismo della DEA: Antropologia, accademia e società in Italia, Palermo, Edizioni Museo Pasqualino, 2018, pp. 289.
Perfino una dea ha una posizione nel tempo e nello spazio
Authors: Ciavolella Riccardo
Published: June 2024

Commento a Berardino Palumbo, Lo strabismo della DEA: Antropologia, accademia e società in Italia, Palermo, Edizioni Museo Pasqualino, 2018, pp. 289.
Mettere al mondo: Uno sguardo antropologico sulla genitorialità in Italia
Authors: Cois Ester
Published: June 2024

Nota critica di Claudia Mattalucci, a cura di, Antropologia e riproduzione: Attese, fratture e ricomposizioni della procreazione e della genitorialità in Italia, Milano, Raffaello Cortina, 2017, pp. 304; Martina Giuffrè, a cura di, Essere madri oggi tra biologia e cultura: Etnografie della maternità nell’Italia contemporanea, Pisa, Pacini, 2018, pp. 224.
Tomasz Rakowski, Hunters, gatherers and pratictioners of powerless: An ethnography of the degraded in postsocialist Poland, New York-Oxford, Berghahn, 2016, pp. 312
Authors: Tiragallo Felice
Published: June 2024

Recensione di Tomasz Rakowski, Hunters, gatherers and pratictioners of powerless: An ethnography of the degraded in postsocialist Poland, New York-Oxford, Berghahn, 2016, pp. 312.
16th RAI Film Festival 2019 | Bristol (UK), 27-30 March 2019
Authors: Meloni Greca N.
Published: June 2024

Review of the 16th RAI Film Festival 2019 | Bristol (UK), 27-30 March 2019.
Shifting women: Mobilizing intimate kinship in a Punjabi diaspora domestic narrative
Authors: Bonfanti Sara
Published: June 2024

Based on extensive multi-site fieldwork with Punjabi immigrants in Italy, the article discusses the institute of transnational marriage and kin reunification among Indian diasporas, interlacing the drive for upward mobility, the normative frame of family migration and the affective economy in building affinity relations. A household case is considered: the lag between a mother’s and her daughter’s experience, an Indian pioneer migrant and a 2nd generation Italian, who differently resorted to kin networks and practices of intimacy in order to circumvent contingent burdens such as political persecution, economic uncertainty, law-enforced stuckedness. The dissonant genealogical narrative that this mother-daughter dyad share sheds light on gender and age intersections in transnational migrations, revealing how a migrant life-course is embedded in family and social upheavals that unfold across different historical challenges. The role of kinship and the alternative dependencies or opportunities it may yield are gauged against a frame of structural constraints and novel desires for making one’s living in a world increasingly hostile but not impermeable to mobility.
Per una antropologia della lettura: Islam, riflessione e modernità nella comunità Suffa di Istanbul
Authors: Vicini Fabio
Published: June 2024

L’articolo indaga le pratiche di lettura di un testo islamico, il Risale-i Nur, presso la comunità Suffa, una delle molte che fanno parte del movimento riformista Nur, il più influente della Turchia moderna. L’articolo si colloca in modo trasversale rispetto ai dibattiti antropologici sull’impatto che l’educazione secolare moderna e i nuovi media hanno avuto sulle pratiche educative in ambito musulmano. Laddove questi lavori si sono focalizzati sulle implicazioni che queste trasformazioni hanno avuto per la ridefinizione della autorità religiosa, il contributo si concentra sulle forme di pensiero (tefekkür) e relative visioni del mondo, o cosmologie, che sono generate in relazione alle pratiche di lettura del testo religioso in oggetto. Sebbene l’accessibilità diretta al testo da parte dei singoli individui possa ricordare, come alcuni hanno sostenuto, dinamiche simili a quelle verificatesi in Europa durante la riforma protestante, l’articolo suggerisce che una tale prospettiva rischia di occultare le linee di continuità nelle pratiche di coltivazione religiosa, così come i complessi meccanismi di trasformazione e rinnovamento interni alla tradizione islamica. Inoltre, il contributo avanza l’idea che una nuova antropologia della lettura, nell’islam come in altre tradizioni, dovrebbe essere più attenta alla natura specifica degli esercizi intellettuali che sono generati dalle pratiche di lettura.
What is European about European anthropology?
Authors: Eriksen Thomas Hylland
Published: June 2024

The elusive and contested idea that there exists such a phenomenon as a European anthropology, and not least the ongoing discussion about it, reflects and contributes to the general, no less ongoing debates about European identity, the potentials and shortcomings of the European Union and questions concerning the boundaries and processes of exclusion and inclusion within Europe. However, the subject of this special section is not merely, or even mainly, the idea of Europe. It also (and perhaps mainly) concerns the characteristics of anthropology. Indeed, I shall argue that the ongoing conversation about a European anthropology mirrors theoretical debates and controversies within anthropology itself, sometimes in surprising ways. Let us begin with language.
Sam Beck, Ana Ivasiuc, eds, Roma activism: Reimagining power and knowledge, New York and Oxford, Berghahn, 2018, pp. xvi-242
Authors: Aresu Massimo
Published: June 2024

Book review of Sam Beck, Ana Ivasiuc, eds, Roma activism: Reimagining power and knowledge, New York and Oxford, Berghahn, 2018, pp. xvi-242.
Sergio Botta, Dagli sciamani allo sciamanesimo: Discorsi, credenze, pratiche, Roma, Carocci, 2018, pp. 172
Authors: Testa Alessandro
Published: June 2024

Book review of Sergio Botta, Dagli sciamani allo sciamanesimo: Discorsi, credenze, pratiche, Roma, Carocci, 2018, pp. 172.
In memory of Flávio Pierucci
Authors: Barba Bruno
Published: June 2024

In memory of Antônio Flávio Pierucci (1945-2012).
Salvador Cayuela Sánchez, Klaus Schriewer, Damián O. Martínez, eds, Dialécticas de la alteridad: Antropología y marxismo a comienzos del siglo XXI, Barcelona, Ediciones Bellaterra, 2018, pp. 239
Authors: Arqueros Francisco
Published: June 2024

Book review of Salvador Cayuela Sánchez, Klaus Schriewer, Damián O. Martínez, eds, Dialécticas de la alteridad: Antropología y marxismo a comienzos del siglo XXI, Barcelona, Ediciones Bellaterra, 2018, pp. 239.
Nick Gill, Anthony Good, eds, Asylum determination in Europe: Ethnographic perspectives, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, pp. XVII + 335
Authors: Aru Silvia
Published: June 2024

Recensione di Nick Gill, Anthony Good, eds, Asylum determination in Europe: Ethnographic perspectives, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, pp. XVII + 335.