Category: Italian

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.

Book review of Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Marek Jakoubek, eds, Ethnic groups and boundaries today: A legacy of fifty years, London, Routledge, 2019, pp. 232.

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.

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. 

Book review of Maurizio Ferraris, Documanità: Filosofia del mondo nuovo, Bari, Laterza, 2021, pp. 417.

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…

Reply to comments 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 apocalyp…

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…

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…

A personal memory of David Graeber by his partner.

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…

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…

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…

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.

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…

The comment highlights Tullio Seppilli’s ethical-political sensitivity, as shown in the interview on risk and health the author conducted during a PhD program. Powered by ongoing generosity, the meeting announced the sharing of a unique heritage, in th…

The contribution points out how the notion of health as a common good, central in Rita Lima’s interview with Tullio Seppilli, fits within Seppilli’s scientific itinerary in the context of policies and problems relating to health and health care in a gl…

In this short text, the author makes a portrait of Tullio Seppilli. The portrait highlights Tullio Seppilli’s choice for critical rationalism, the role of his political convictions and the academic ethics of an outstanding master of medical anthropolog…

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…

Remembering Patrick Williams (1947-2021), one of the most important anthropologists of Gypsy-Roma groups, is also paying homage to a specific anthropology, which Williams constantly and consciously contributed to establish: an anthropology which anchor…