Cirese’s Gramsci
Contribution to Anniversary Forum Cirese 101: Rereading Antonio Gramsci’s “Observations on Folklore”, Antonio Maria Pusceddu, Filippo M. Zerilli, eds, Anuac, 11, 1, 2022.
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Gramsci’s Observations on folklore: Conceptions of the world, spontaneous philosophy and class instinct
This is a revised and updated edition of the essay previously published in the volume Approaches to Gramsci, edited by Anne Showstack Sassoon, London, Writers & Readers, 1982.
AMC 100 + 1: Introduction
Introduction to Anniversary Forum Cirese 101: Rereading Antonio Gramsci’s “Observations on Folklore”, Anuac, 11, 1, 2022.
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Maria Beatrice Di Brizio, Histoire du concept de couvade: Edward B. Tylor et l’ethnologie victorienne, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2021, pp. 640
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Cirese 101: Rereading Antonio Gramsci’s “Observations on Folklore”
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