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Contribution to Anniversary Forum Cirese 101: Rereading Antonio Gramsci’s “Observations on Folklore”, Antonio Maria Pusceddu, Filippo M. Zerilli, eds, Anuac, 11, 1, 2022.

Contribution to Anniversary Forum Cirese 101: Rereading Antonio Gramsci’s “Observations on Folklore”, Antonio Maria Pusceddu, Filippo M. Zerilli, eds, Anuac, 11, 1, 2022.

Contribution to Anniversary Forum Cirese 101: Rereading Antonio Gramsci’s “Observations on Folklore”, Antonio Maria Pusceddu, Filippo M. Zerilli, eds, Anuac, 11, 1, 2022.  

Contribution to Anniversary Forum Cirese 101: Rereading Antonio Gramsci’s “Observations on Folklore”, Antonio Maria Pusceddu, Filippo M. Zerilli, eds, Anuac, 11, 1, 2022.

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. 

Introduction to Anniversary Forum Cirese 101: Rereading Antonio Gramsci’s “Observations on Folklore”, Anuac, 11, 1, 2022.

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…

Book review of Jonathan Marks, Why are there still creationists? Human evolution and the ancestors, Cambridge, Medford (MA), Polity Press, 2021, pp. 112.

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…

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.

Book review of Adriano Favole, ed, L’Europa d’Oltremare, Milano, Raffaello Cortina Editore, 2020, pp. 280.

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…

Book review of Carole Counihan, Attivismo alimentare in Sardegna: Luoghi, sapori e comunità, Torino, Rosenberg & Sellier, 2020, pp. 248.

Book review of Mauro Van Aken, Campati per aria, Milano, Elèuthera, 2020, pp. 272.

Book review of Dominic Boyer, George E. Marcus, eds, Collaborative Anthropology Today: A Collection of Exceptions, New York, Cornell University Press, 2021, pp. 240.

In this contribution, I reflect on the relationship between the ecological transition, sustainable development, and the protection and safeguarding of cultural and natural heritage. The environmental question and the heritagization processes have sever…

Book review of Maria Beatrice Di Brizio, Histoire du concept de couvade: Edward B. Tylor et l’ethnologie victorienne, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2021, pp. 640.

This Anniversary Forum commemorates the figure and work of Alberto Mario Cirese (1921-2011), a prominent Italian anthropologist, on the 101st anniversary of his birth. Cirese’s reading of Gramsci has been highly influential. For this reason, the forum …

Book review of Massimiliano Mollona, Cristina Papa, Veronica Redini, Valeria Siniscalchi, Antropologia delle imprese: Lavoro, reti, merci, Roma, Carocci, 2021, pp. 220.