Mauro Van Aken, Campati per aria, Milano, Elèuthera, 2020, pp. 272
Book review of Mauro Van Aken, Campati per aria, Milano, Elèuthera, 2020, pp. 272.
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Dominic Boyer, George E. Marcus, eds, Collaborative Anthropology Today: A Collection of Exceptions, New York, Cornell University Press, 2021, pp. 240
Book review of Dominic Boyer, George E. Marcus, eds, Collaborative Anthropology Today: A Collection of Exceptions, New York, Cornell University Press, 2021, pp. 240.
Ecological Transition vs Heritage? Common goods, energy transition and sustainable development in Sardinia
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…
Maria Beatrice Di Brizio, Histoire du concept de couvade: Edward B. Tylor et l’ethnologie victorienne, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2021, pp. 640
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.
Cirese 101: Rereading Antonio Gramsci’s “Observations on Folklore”
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 …
Massimiliano Mollona, Cristina Papa, Veronica Redini, Valeria Siniscalchi, Antropologia delle imprese: Lavoro, reti, merci, Roma, Carocci, 2021, pp. 220
Book review of Massimiliano Mollona, Cristina Papa, Veronica Redini, Valeria Siniscalchi, Antropologia delle imprese: Lavoro, reti, merci, Roma, Carocci, 2021, pp. 220.
Cirese 101: Mexican notes with a greeting the old way
Contribution to Anniversary Forum Cirese 101: Rereading Antonio Gramsci’s “Observations on Folklore”, Antonio Maria Pusceddu, Filippo M. Zerilli, eds, Anuac, 11, 1, 2022.
Becoming a political subject: Reflections on translating folklore into politics
Contribution to Anniversary Forum Cirese 101: Rereading Antonio Gramsci’s “Observations on Folklore”, Antonio Maria Pusceddu, Filippo M. Zerilli, eds, Anuac, 11, 1, 2022.
Gramsci’s folklore bundle
Contribution to Anniversary Forum Cirese 101: Rereading Antonio Gramsci’s “Observations on Folklore”, Antonio Maria Pusceddu, Filippo M. Zerilli, eds, Anuac, 11, 1, 2022.
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.
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…
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…