Cirese’s Gramsci
Contribution to Anniversary Forum Cirese 101: Rereading Antonio Gramsci’s “Observations on Folklore”, Antonio Maria Pusceddu, Filippo M. Zerilli, eds, Anuac, 11, 1, 2022.
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Gramsci’s Observations on folklore: Conceptions of the world, spontaneous philosophy and class instinct
This is a revised and updated edition of the essay previously published in the volume Approaches to Gramsci, edited by Anne Showstack Sassoon, London, Writers & Readers, 1982.
AMC 100 + 1: Introduction
Introduction to Anniversary Forum Cirese 101: Rereading Antonio Gramsci’s “Observations on Folklore”, Anuac, 11, 1, 2022.
Ashish Kothari, Ariel Salleh, Arturo Escobar, Federico Demaria, Alberto Acosta, eds, Pluriverso: Dizionario del Post-Sviluppo, Italian edition edited by Maura Benegiamo, Alice Dal Gobbo, Emanuele Leonardi, Salvo Torre, Pisa, Orthotes, 2021, pp. 491
Book review of Ashish Kothari, Ariel Salleh, Arturo Escobar, Federico Demaria, Alberto Acosta, eds, Pluriverso: Dizionario del Post-Sviluppo, Italian edition edited by Maura Benegiamo, Alice Dal Gobbo, Emanuele Leonardi, Salvo Torre, Pisa, Orthotes, 20…
Jonathan Marks, Why are there still creationists? Human evolution and the ancestors, Cambridge, Medford (MA), Polity Press, 2021, pp. 112
Book review of Jonathan Marks, Why are there still creationists? Human evolution and the ancestors, Cambridge, Medford (MA), Polity Press, 2021, pp. 112.
Lombrosians and lombrosianism in Brazil
Cesare Lombroso and his “positive school” of criminal anthropology were highly influential in the formation of the social sciences and ethnographic sensibility in Brazil. Rather than carefully read or analysed, Lombroso and his school were cited, inter…
Leonardo Piasere, Antisemitismo e antiziganismo in Italia, edited by Giovanni Pizza, Perugia, Morlacchi Editore, 2021, pp. 136
Book review of Leonardo Piasere, Antisemitismo e antiziganismo in Italia: Sull’antropologia del razzismo di Alfonso Maria di Nola, edited by Giovanni Pizza, Perugia, Morlacchi Editore, 2021, pp. 136.
Adriano Favole, ed, L’Europa d’Oltremare, Milano, Raffaello Cortina Editore, 2020, pp. 280
Book review of Adriano Favole, ed, L’Europa d’Oltremare, Milano, Raffaello Cortina Editore, 2020, pp. 280.
How ethical is ethicality? Cultural interpretations along the ethical Canadian diamond supply chain
The mining industry has been overwhelmed by concerns related to both soil and water pollution and unethical management of work organization and human rights. Tracing the cultural interpretations of the concept of ethics related to the Canadian diamonds…
Life in Oil: Cofán Survival in the Petroleum Fields of Amazonia by Michael Cepek
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
The Kararaô of Central Brazil by Gustaaf Verswijver
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
Club-Fighters of the Amazon: Warfare among the Kayapó Indians of Central Brazil by Gustaaf Verswijver
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
Upriver: The Turbulent Life and Times of an Amazonian People by Michael F. Brown
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
A Walk to the River in Amazonia: Ordinary Reality for the Mehinaku Indians by Carla Stang
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
Birds of Passage (Pájaros de verano) by Directors Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
Metaphoric Recursiveness and Ternary Ontology: Another Look at the Language and Worldview of the Yaminahua
My purpose in this paper is, first, to explore metaphorical recursiveness in Yaminahua, i.e. the latter’s folding of the common binary structure: {(x) things + (y) words} into the threefold scheme: (A) things + (B) external analogies + (C) internal…
Variations on Hunting and Care: Ownership, Kinship and Other Interspecific Relationships in the Eastern Amazon
This article is based on fieldwork among the Guajá people, a small indigenous group of Tupí-Guaraní speakers inhabiting the eastern portion of Brazil’s Amazon region. Aiming for an ethnographic definition of kinship, this article engages in issues …
The Villas Boas Brothers and Anthropologists
This paper describes the history of the Villas Boas brothers of Brazil and their role in establishing and administering the 26,000-square-kilometer Xingu Indigenous Park in the Amazonian state of Mato Grosso. Many anthropologists came to work in th…
Mismatches: Museums, Anthropology and Amazonia
Over the past decades, museums, particularly the large Euro-American ethnographic ones, have had trouble developing adequate presentations of Amazonian cultural productions. To some extent, this failure can be seen as a side effect of a more genera…
Visualizing a Post-Apocalypse: Notes on New Ayoreo Cinema
This essay describes one recent Ayoreo film and its production in order to reflect on the wider significance of lowland South American Indigenous cinema and analyses of it today. Informed by the authors’ roles in the collaborative editing of the fi…
Desire and the Work it Does: Alterity and Exogamy in a Kotiria Origin Myth from the Northwest Amazon of Brazil
In terms of the pan-Amazonian social paradigm that transforms affines into kin and assimilates them into the consanguineal unit, Eastern Tukanoans must be regarded as exceptional. This paper explores a foundation myth that allows us to better under…
Latin America in the Chef’s Table
Food media, such as Netflix’s Chef’s Table, presents both an empirical and a normative-aspirational dimension, communicating specific instructions and projecting powerful images of what constitutes a good meal and a culinary authority. This inve…
Cuisiner les kīrai (légumes feuilles) et soigner les corps
Les kīrai, légumes feuilles, sauvages ou cultivés, sont consommés dans la ville de Pondichéry (Inde du Sud) par toutes les catégories de sa population. Oubliés des politiques publiques, ils contribuent à assurer l’apport en fibres, en micronutri…
Migration and Ethnic Themes, Vol.37 No.2
Published: March 2022.
« As-tu vu l’homme en train de pétrir le pain ? »
À travers une observation netnographique d’un groupe de cuisine Facebook marocain mixte et fondé par des hommes, cet article interroge les reconfigurations des normes alimentaires genrées dans l’espace numérique. Le confinement de 2020 a permis …