Carlo Capello, Giovanni Semi, eds, Torino: Un profilo etnografico, Milano, Meltemi, 2018, pp. 268
Book review of Carlo Capello, Giovanni Semi, eds, Torino: Un profilo etnografico, Milano, Meltemi, 2018, pp. 268.
Category: Italian
Constantin Bărbulescu, Physicians, peasants and modern medicine: Imagining rurality in Romania, 1860-1910, translated by Angela Jianu, Budapest, Central European University Press, 2019, pp. 308
Book review of Constantin Bărbulescu, Physicians, peasants and modern medicine: Imagining rurality in Romania, 1860-1910, translated by Angela Jianu, Budapest, Central European University Press, 2019, pp. 308.
Fabiana Dimpflmeier, Il giro lungo di Lamberto Loria: Le origini papuane dell’etnografia italiana, Roma, CISU, 2020, pp. 383
Book review of Fabiana Dimpflmeier, Il giro lungo di Lamberto Loria: Le origini papuane dell’etnografia italiana, Roma, CISU, 2020, pp. 383.
Carlo Capello, Ai margini del lavoro: Un’antropologia della disoccupazione a Torino, Verona, Ombre Corte, 2020, pp. 182
Book review of Carlo Capello, Ai margini del lavoro: Un’antropologia della disoccupazione a Torino, Verona, Ombre Corte, 2020, pp. 182.
Jean-Louis Tornatore, ed, Le patrimoine comme expérience: Implications anthropologiques, Paris, Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme, 2019, pp. 298
Book review of Jean-Louis Tornatore, ed, Le patrimoine comme expérience: Implications anthropologiques, Paris, Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme, 2019, pp. 298.
Silvia Vignato, Le figlie delle catastrofi: Un’etnografia della crescita nella ricostruzione di Aceh, Milano, Ledizioni, 2020, pp. 247
Book review of Silvia Vignato, Le figlie delle catastrofi: Un’etnografia della crescita nella ricostruzione di Aceh, Milano, Ledizioni, 2020, pp. 247.
Editorial
A note from the Editor-in-chief.
The path unfolds as you go: An anthropology for an other possible world
Review article of Anand Pandian, A Possible Anthropology. Methods for Uneasy Times. Duke University Press, Durham and London, 2019, pp. 160; Tim Ingold, Antropologia. Ripensare il mondo, translated by Gaia Raimondi, edited by Matteo Meschiari, Meltemi,…
Ivan Severi, <em>Quick and dirty: Antropologia pubblica, applicata e professionale</em>, Firenze, editpress, 2019, pp. 308
Book review of Ivan Severi, Quick and dirty. Antropologia pubblica, applicata e professionale, Firenze, editpress, 2019, pp. 308.
Berardino Palumbo, <em>Piegare i santi: Inchini rituali e pratiche mafiose</em>, Bologna, Marietti, 2020, pp. 176
Book review of Berardino Palumbo, Piegare i santi. Inchini rituali e pratiche mafiose, Bologna, Marietti, 2020, pp. 176.
Un atto d’amore per l’Open Access
A note from the Editor-in-chief.
Giovanni Pizza, <em>L’antropologia di Gramsci: Corpo, natura, mutazione</em>, Roma, Carocci, 2020, pp. 182
Book review of Giovanni Pizza, L’antropologia di Gramsci. Corpo, natura, mutazione, Roma, Carocci, 2020, pp. 182.
Caterina Di Pasquale, <em>Antropologia della memoria: Il ricordo come fatto culturale</em>, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2018, pp. 257
Book review of Caterina Di Pasquale, Antropologia della memoria. Il ricordo come fatto culturale, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2018, pp. 257.
Francisco Martínez, ed, <em>Politics of recuperation: Repair and recovery in post-crisis Portugal</em>, London and New York, Bloomsbury, 2020, pp. 256
Book review of Francisco Martínez, ed, Politics of recuperation: Repair and recovery in post-crisis Portugal, London and New York, Bloomsbury, 2020, pp. 256.
On the middle class: Auto-anthropology and social class
Review article of Hadas Weiss, We have never been middle class, London and New York, Verso, 2019, pp. 176; Caitlin Zaloom, Indebted: How families make college work at any cost, Princeton and Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2019, pp. 280.
Francesco Bachis, <em>Sull’orlo del pregiudizio: Razzismo e islamofobia in una prospettiva antropologica</em>, Cagliari, Aipsa Edizioni, 2018, pp. 174
Book review of Francesco Bachis, Sull’orlo del pregiudizio. Razzismo e islamofobia in una prospettiva antropologica, Cagliari, Aipsa Edizioni, 2018, pp. 174.
At the anthropologist’s school: Rereading Carlo Ginzburg’s <em>Il formaggio e i vermi</em>, forty years later. With a note by Carlo Ginzburg
A comment on Carlo Ginzburg’s new edition of Il formaggio e i vermi, Milan, Adelphi, 2019, pp. 231. With a note by Carlo Ginzburg.
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…
Positive ideologies ain’t enough! (Dis)junctions and paradoxes in minority language protection
In 2018, I conducted research on the application of protection measures for two minority language groups (Cimbrian and Mocheno) in Northern Italian schools. The study aimed at describing linguistic learning programs but it slowly turned into something …
Beyond the fingerprints: From biometric to genetics
Aside to the demographic screening, a deeper biosocial interest in India can be observed on the scale of groups and subpopulations. Several agencies (university consortia, departments of human forensic genetics), are pursuing the inspection of populati…
“It’s important to be good”: Anthropological reflection on linguistic dynamics and hospitality
This article proposes an ethnographic and anthropological reflection conducted in the context of a sociolinguistic investigation of the linguistic dynamics between locals and asylum seekers in the Aosta Valley. The analysis of language practices involv…
The Tunisian specificity: Political hegemony and the habitus of commitment in contemporary public Islam
I interpret the pursuit of an Islamic understanding of ideals such as democracy, pluralism and freedom, carried out by the Tunisian Islamic movements after the 2011 revolution, as part of a discursive tradition (Asad 1986) about the “Tunisian specifici…
Rwandan <em>gukuna</em> trouble: Femocracy, feminisms and critical anthropology
This article analyses the ritual gukuna (i.e. the elongation of the labia minora) in Rwanda and among the Rwandan diaspora in Italy. This practice – along with the kunyaza (male sexual technique) – is expected to increase sexual pleasure. When I starte…
Giuseppe Profeta, <em>L’acqua e il vaso nella vascolarità universale</em>, Ortona, Menabò, 2020, pp. 116
Book review of Giuseppe Profeta, L’acqua e il vaso nella vascolarità universale, Ortona, Menabò, 2020, pp. 116.
La Biblia vaquera: frontera y juego
Dentro del marco de la producción literaria del Norte de México ha nacido una generación nueva, emancipada de los referentes prototípicos relacionados con la frontera, la violencia y el narcotráfico. A través del análisis de los juegos de palabra de La…