Rodríguez Cruz, Marta, editora. Los pueblos indígenas de Abya-Yala en el siglo XXI. Un análisis multidimensional, Quito, Abya-Yala/Fundación Pueblo Indio del Ecuador, 2021
Confluenze. Rivista di Studi Iberoamericani
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Bizzarri Gabriele, ‘Performar’ Latinoamérica. Estrategias queer de representación y agenciamiento del Nuevo Mundo en la literatura hispanoamericana contemporánea. Milán, Ledizioni, 2020
Confluenze. Rivista di Studi Iberoamericani
“Won’t Somebody Please Think of the Children?” The Conservative Creation of a Childhood in Danger in Latin America
Based on interdisciplinary research on the conservative “gender ideology” trend that has appeared in several Latin American countries in the last five years, this article argues that childhood(s) are at the centre of this trend as captive subjects a…
Oltre il neoliberalismo multiculturale: la nascita dei B’oq’ol Q’esal Tenam
L’articolo analizza i processi di rivitalizzazione delle “autorità ancestrali” nella Regione Ixil (Guatemala), che dalle proteste contro una multinazionale energetica sono culminati nella nascita dei B’oq’ol Q’esal Tenam (Alcaldías Indígenas). Ri…
O museu indígena “Anízia Maria”. Etnicidade, território e patrimonialização
O presente artigo ilustra o processo museológico em desenvolvimento na comunidade indígena Tabajara e Tapuio de Nazaré, Estado do Piauí (Brasil), como parte do mais amplo fenômeno da “museologia indígena”. Através duma pesquisa colaborativa r…
Infancias vulneradas: violencia infantil, irrepresentabilidad y normalización en Sylvia Aguilar Zéleny, Marina Herrera y Emiliano Monge
Una condición relevante en el México de hoy es el incremento de los índices de violencia. Paralelamente se ha gestado la proliferación y generalización de una normalización cotidiana de la violencia como una realidad colateral emergente. Una de las ari…
La producción de la desventaja escolar. Etnografía de infancias indígenas y migrantes en la Ciudad de México
Este artículo analiza el impacto del trabajo infantil en la vida escolar de niños y niñas indígenas migrantes en La Merced, en la Ciudad de México. Estudio etnográfico basado en 44 entrevistas grabadas entre septiembre de 2014 y abril de 2015. Las oral…
Lo italiano en el paisaje lingüístico de Buenos Aires. Lengua, cultura, inmigración
This study analyses the contact between Spanish and Italian in the Italian linguistic landscape (LL) of Buenos Aires, from the most ancient layers (together with their linguistic innovations) to the most recent ones, resulting from a commodification of…
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
Book review of 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.
Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Marek Jakoubek, eds, Ethnic groups and boundaries today: A legacy of fifty years, London, Routledge, 2019, pp. 232
Book review of Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Marek Jakoubek, eds, Ethnic groups and boundaries today: A legacy of fifty years, London, Routledge, 2019, pp. 232.
Daniele Comberiati, Pierre Halen, Rosaria Iounes-Vona, eds, Des italiens au Congo aux italiens du Congo: Aspects d’une glocalité, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2020, pp. 366
Book review of Daniele Comberiati, Pierre Halen, Rosaria Iounes-Vona, eds, Des italiens au Congo aux italiens du Congo: Aspects d’une glocalité, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2020, pp. 366.
Understanding fascism: Ethnographic studies on the far right
Review article of 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-c…
Laura Ferrero, Chiara Quagliarello, Ana Cristina Vargas, eds, Embodying borders: A migrant’s right to health, universal right and local policies, New York and Oxford, Berghahn, 2021, pp. 280
Book review of Laura Ferrero, Chiara Quagliarello, Ana Cristina Vargas, eds, Embodying borders: A migrant’s right to health, universal right and local policies, New York and Oxford, Berghahn, 2021, pp. 280.
Maurizio Ferraris, Documanità: Filosofia del mondo nuovo, Bari, Laterza, 2021, pp. 417
Book review of Maurizio Ferraris, Documanità: Filosofia del mondo nuovo, Bari, Laterza, 2021, pp. 417.
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Juju subjugation? Deconstructing the categories of dependence among young migrants from Nigeria
The article aims to discuss the role of the magical-religious dimension in the subjection and sexual exploitation of the women Nigerian migrants in Italy, and the resonance that this dimension has in public discourse. Drawing on my involvement in a c…
Posthumanist perspectives on transhumanist marketing: More than human genes, more than market promotion
Transhumanism advocates enhancement of current human capacities with new technologies, in pursuit of human improvement and perfection, and thereby creates lucrative marketing opportunities. We use the broader concept of posthumanism, which includes t…
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A personal memory of David Graeber by his partner.
David Graeber: The impossible anthropology and the possible anarchy
These reflections in memory of David Graeber focus on some of the moments in his work that show at the same time certain objective limits of anthropology and the hidden strength of a political philosophy such as anarchism. It is his militant ethnograph…
Building new horizons of value, care and freedom
In this brief piece, I want to pay tribute to David Graeber for how he articulated the relation between value, care and freedom as a path toward more equal and fair livelihood horizons. I will consider the broad contribution of one of his most widely r…
Graeber on anarchy
The text presents three of Graeber’s reflections on anarchy, built on an anthropological perspective: the premises of anarchic organizations lay in egalitarianism, the presence of “spaces in between” and in intercultural creativity; the assembly as the…
David Graeber (1961-2020): An anarchist and anthropological farewell to a “sudden thinker”
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.
Anthropology and global transformations of late capitalism: Notes on Theory from the South by Jean and John L. Comaroff
Review article of Jean Comaroff, John L. Comaroff, Teoria dal sud del mondo. Ovvero, come l’Euro-America sta evolvendo verso l’Africa, translated by Mario Capello, Introduction to the Italian edition by Cecilia Pennacini, Rosenberg & Sellier, Turin…
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Risk, vulnerability, participation
The dialogue between medical anthropology and epidemiology is important in Tullio Seppilli’s thought. Indeed, the probabilistic mechanisms of a statistical nature make it possible to identify significant correlations between risk, health, and power str…