Volume 17, Number 2, 2021 – Antrocom
The cradleboard was collected in 1823 by G. Costantino Beltrami probably near Fort Snelling (ex Fort Anthony) among the Eastern Sioux, probably the Santee …
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Listening through houses: Changing communities of sounds in Northern Laos
In the uplands of northern Laos, in which bamboo and timber houses prevailed, concrete houses are now on the rise. It will be argued that houses can be used as prisms to illuminate processes of social change. Drawing on experiences of staying in both a…
Great home-spectations: “Houses-to-be”, marginality, and social expectations in Southern Tunisia
In the mining town of Redeyef (south-western Tunisia), “modern” homes and building techniques bear the signs of a history of marginalization, inequality, and lack of resources. Here, power produced specific mode of living and territorial organization. …
House and home: Reconsidering the anatomy of houses in Western societies
The article develops a critical and transversal reading of the special issue. Each contribution inspired the author to seek for a mirror image or an analogy in Western societies and test the mentioned Carsten and Hugh-Jones observation of the seemingly…
Reluctant inscriptions: Social automatisms within the movement “Se Non Ora Quando?”
In the course of the production of sociality, the interaction of interests, materialities and rules may occur in unintended and not foreseeable ways. Procedures and norms can establish themselves uncontrollably and contour politics. This paper proposes…
The voice of the DEA: Findings of a survey on anthropology and communication in Italy
This research report presents the findings of a quantitative investigation about anthropology and mass media, based on questionnaires mailed to all Italian anthropology professors (Scientific-Disciplinary Sector M-DEA/01). The goal of this survey was t…
The anatomy of houses: Materialities of being at home
This introductory essay proposes a reflection that discusses, reframes, and presents the thematic section hosted in this volume, that investigates houses at the intersection between recent trends in the anthropology of the house, the study of material …
House personhood in rural Andean Bolivia
In the rural Bolivian Andes, personhood is defined by intersubjective reciprocal relationships between human and nonhuman beings. This paper examines the role of the house as a living being in itself and a conduit between its inhabitants and local plac…
The work in progress: Preliminary notes
Introductory note to the book forum 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 [ed. fr. La fin du monde. Essai sur les a…
Introduction: Reading “again” La fine del mondo
Introduction to the book forum 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 [ed. fr. La fin du monde. Essai sur …
Editorial
A note from the Editor-in-chief.
For Martine Segalen
Forum in memory of Martine Segalen. Contributions by Christian Bromberger, Adriano Favole, Michelangelo Giampaoli, Marco Antonio da Silva Mello & Felipe Berocan Veiga, Cristina Papa, David Robichaux, Pier Giorgio Solinas, Françoise Zonabe…
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“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…
Estado y ONG en Argentina en la gestión de lo social: formas de legitimación de los 90 a la actualidad
El artículo analiza en perspectiva histórica los modos en que las Organizaciones no Gubernamentales (ONG) en Argentina se convierten en agentes considerados eficientes para la gestión de política social desde la órbita estatal a partir de los años 90. …
“Soñé que iba a correr sangre”. Baguazo, memorias de violencia y recuerdos oníricos entre los awajún de la Amazonia peruana
Los awajún del Alto Marañón, región nororiental de la Amazonía peruana, fueron protagonistas de un conflicto medioambiental, conocido como «Baguazo», en el cual se enfrentaron a distintos agentes del Estado peruano (junio 2009). Actualmente, ellos se …
Moldear el bronce con la palabra. Andrés Lamas y la biografía de Bernardino Rivadavia
Este artículo analiza el proceso de creación y recepción de una serie de trabajos sobre Bernardino Rivadavia elaborados por Andrés Lamas en la década de 1880. Mediante este ejercicio se intenta examinar el funcionamiento del mundo del impreso en Argent…
Eternos retornos e reusos da Antropofagia oswaldiana
Article review about the Oswaldian Anthropophagy. Starting from the rediscovery of the Modernist Manifesto Antropófago and the work of Oswald de Andrade, this article aims to describe the trajectory of the several uses of Anthropophagy in Brazilian cul…
Geosemiótica y orden de interacción en comunidades indígenas de reciente creación
Este artículo describe, desde la geosemiótica — el estudio del significado social en la ubicación material de los signos, discurso y acciones en el mundo material —, la documentación de la lengua chuj y k’anjob’al en dos comunidades fronterizas …