Front Matter
New Florida Journal of Anthropology
Category: English
Sara Roncaglia, <em>Canti urbani: Trasformazioni del lavoro e degli spazi di vita a Mumbai</em>, Milano, Raffaello Cortina, 2019, pp. 183
Book review of Sara Roncaglia, Canti urbani: Trasformazioni del lavoro e degli spazi di vita a Mumbai, Milano, Raffaello Cortina, 2019, pp. 183.
Giuliana Sanò, <em>Fabbriche di plastica. Il lavoro nell’agricoltura industriale</em>, Verona, Ombre Corte, 2018, pp. 236
Book review of Giuliana Sanò, Fabbriche di plastica. Il lavoro nell’agricoltura industriale, Verona, Ombre Corte, 2018, pp. 236.
Alessandro Mancuso, <em>Altre persone: Antropologia, visioni del mondo e ontologie indigene</em>, Milano, Mimesis, 2018, pp. 307
Book review of Alessandro Mancuso, Altre persone: Antropologia, visioni del mondo e ontologie indigene, Milano, Mimesis, 2018, pp. 307.
Andrea Ravenda, <em>Carbone: Inquinamento industriale, salute e politica a Brindisi</em>, Milano, Meltemi, 2018, pp. 207
Book review of Andrea Ravenda, Carbone: Inquinamento industriale, salute e politica a Brindisi, Milano, Meltemi, 2018, pp. 207.
Nick Gill, Anthony Good, eds, <em>Asylum determination in Europe: Ethnographic perspectives</em>, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, pp. XVII + 335
Book review of Nick Gill, Anthony Good, eds, Asylum determination in Europe: Ethnographic perspectives, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, pp. XVII + 335.
Simonetta Grilli, <em>Antropologia delle famiglie contemporanee</em>, Roma, Carocci, 2019, pp. 315
Book review of Simonetta Grilli, Antropologia delle famiglie contemporanee, Roma, Carocci, 2019, pp. 315.
Antonio Gramsci, Waddah Charara and Walter Benjamin: A walk on the wild side of intellectual militancy
Review article of Giovanni Pizza, L’antropologia di Gramsci: Corpo, natura, mutazione, Milano, Carocci, 2020, pp. 182; Fadi A. Bardawil, Revolution and disenchantment: Arab Marxism and the binds of emancipation, Durham, Duke University Press, 2020, pp….
Salvador Cayuela Sánchez, Klaus Schriewer, Damián O. Martínez, eds, <em>Dialécticas de la alteridad: Antropología y marxismo a comienzos del siglo XXI</em>, Barcelona, Ediciones Bellaterra, 2018, pp. 239
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.
<em>Candomblé</em>, intolerance, and racism in Bolsonaro’s days: History repeats itself?
The followers of the Afro-Brazilian candomblé cult feel today more than ever threatened by various dangers, in particular by the aggressiveness of the evangelical churches. The contribution poses some questions and formulates some hypotheses to be expl…
Regimes of intensity and techniques of the self: Ethnography of <em>làmb</em> training in Dakar
How to become a làmb (Senegalese wrestling with punches) wrestler in Dakar? Starting from an ethnography based on an “observant participation” method, this article analyzes wrestlers’ “techniques of the self” by focusing on the articulation between dis…
Violence and space: A comparative ethnography of two Italian “badlands”
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….
“Children are our pension”: Livelihood diversification, social security, and kinship constraints among East African refugees
Stereotypical ideas about poverty and life in refugee camps make it difficult to understand the choices that individual refugees make when moving from one place to another within Africa, including from refugee settlements to town, to refugee camps and …
Shifting women: Mobilizing intimate kinship in a Punjabi diaspora domestic narrative
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 fami…
Families at a distance, distances within families: Borders and emotional bonds among migrants from Eritrea
This article investigates how mobility regimes and destination countries contribute to reshaping transnational family ties among refugees from Eritrea. Due to protracted political violence in the country, Eritreans are a geographically dispersed commun…
Kinship ties on the move: An introduction to the migratory journeys of kindred
One of the main human factors recognized in the New Classical economy of labour market explanations is that families, extended families or even groups of neighbours might be involved in designing the migration path of one or more members of the group, …
Labour of Love: An Open Access Manifesto for Freedom, Integrity, and Creativity in the Humanities and Interpretive Social Sciences
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 Integ…
Vintilă Mihăilescu: Main publications
Main publication of Vintilă Mihăilescu.
For Vintilă
A note from the Editor-in-chief.
For Vintilă
In memory of Vintilă Mihăilescu (1951-2020).
Introduction
This set of articles, based in recent ethnographic fieldwork by a new generation of anthropologists, taken together, make a compelling case that terroir continues to have a certain explanatory power; terroir, or the taste of place, reflects and …
Terroir and the Family Farm
I argue that the concept of terroir is related to ideas about locally produced foods and health or wellbeing. Consumer demand for local foods and an emerging interest in terroir hold great potential for mobilizing meaningful social change relate…
Extending terroir: Icelandic lamb production and the taste of land(rights)
The term réttir in Iceland denotes a series of annual events occurring in the smaller towns and agricultural regions outside the capital of Reykjavík. Translated literally to “gathering,” the réttir season begins in early September and consists …
Translations of Terroir: Constructing and Marketing a Sense of Place in the Basque Country
A distinguishing and authenticating element of Basque culture is created with the use of its language, Euskara. Key words in this non-Indo-European language are commonly sighted to market local products such as milk, wine, and cider to create va…
Variability and Change
This article examines how central Ohio winegrowers are able to manufacture “the taste of place” in the midst of a dominant global discourse that maintains a rhetoric of anthropogenic climate change. Importantly, this work positions climate as no…