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When alterity prevails: Pearls by Tullio Seppilli to Brazilian qualitative research
The comment highlights Tullio Seppilli’s ethical-political sensitivity, as shown in the interview on risk and health the author conducted during a PhD program. Powered by ongoing generosity, the meeting announced the sharing of a unique heritage, in th…
Health as a common good
The contribution points out how the notion of health as a common good, central in Rita Lima’s interview with Tullio Seppilli, fits within Seppilli’s scientific itinerary in the context of policies and problems relating to health and health care in a gl…
Consciousness and life: A tribute to Tullio Seppilli
In this short text, the author makes a portrait of Tullio Seppilli. The portrait highlights Tullio Seppilli’s choice for critical rationalism, the role of his political convictions and the academic ethics of an outstanding master of medical anthropolog…
Risk, vulnerability, participation
The dialogue between medical anthropology and epidemiology is important in Tullio Seppilli’s thought. Indeed, the probabilistic mechanisms of a statistical nature make it possible to identify significant correlations between risk, health, and power str…
In memory of Patrick Williams (1947-2021)
Remembering Patrick Williams (1947-2021), one of the most important anthropologists of Gypsy-Roma groups, is also paying homage to a specific anthropology, which Williams constantly and consciously contributed to establish: an anthropology which anchor…
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Reply to comments 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 [fr. ed. La fin du monde. Essai sur les apocalypses cultur…
Manifestação sobre a situação dos periódicos científicos brasileiros
A Academia Brasileira de Ciências (ABC), a Academia Brasileira de Letras (ABL), a Academia Nacional de Medicina (ANM) e a Sociedade Brasileira para o Progresso da Ciência (SBPC), entidades que procuram contribuir sempre para o desenvolvimento científico e tecnológico do País, para a educação e para a cultura brasileira, manifestam sua grande preocupação com a […]
The intimate body of agency
Subjectivity, forms of subjectivation, domination, forms of resistance and other analogous concepts are at the heart of a vibrant debate, that runs through anthropology and social sciences since many years. This introduction aims to rethink some issues…
The novelties, starting with the Table of contents
Comment 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 [fr. ed. La fin du monde. Essai sur les apocalypses culturelles…
Apocalypse and history: Transcendental foundation of the human
Comment 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 [fr. ed. La fin du monde. Essai sur les apocalypses culturelles…
“How dare you?” Thefts of life amid melancholy, inaction and inducive prophecies
Comment 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 [fr. ed. La fin du monde. Essai sur les apocalypses culturelles…
La fine del mondo: A “phantom book” finally resolved in value
Comment 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 [fr. ed. La fin du monde. Essai sur les apocalypses culturelles…
Simona Taliani, Il tempo della disobbedienza: Per un’antropologia della parentela nella migrazione, Verona, Ombre Corte, 2019, pp. 207
Book review of Simona Taliani, Il tempo della disobbedienza: Per un’antropologia della parentela nella migrazione, Verona, Ombre Corte, 2019, pp. 207.
L’alimentation des Peuls du Sénégal
Cet article porte sur l’alimentation des populations peules du Sénégal, plus précisément sur deux groupes de femmes : l’un vivant dans la zone sylvo-pastorale du Ferlo (Nord Est du Sénégal) et l’autre issu du Ferlo et installé dans la capitale d…
Epidemiological risk and health policies: An interview with Tullio Seppilli
In this interview, Tullio Seppilli points out the usefulness of the notion of health risk if aimed at reducing it with public interventions by improving living conditions and reducing social inequalities. Introducing the notion of health as a common go…
David Graeber: Anthropology, anarchy, activism
Forum in memory of David Graeber. Contributions by Patrícia Alves de Matos, Stefano Boni, Dimitris Dalakoglou, Alessandro Deiana, Nika Dubrovsky.
Self-harm in Turin’s Centre for undocumented migrants (CPR): The camp, agency, and subjectivation
Italian detention centres for undocumented migrants (Centri di Permanenza per il Rimpatrio – CPRs) have received little attention in the field of social sciences. This article focuses on the issue of self-harm, unanimously reported to be a very frequen…
Not even a word: Politics of speech and silence in Palestinian memories
This article explores the memories of female Palestinian former political prisoners, via a rethinking of the interrogation moment as liminal space. This arena reveals and triggers productive processes of recognition of self and other, construction of m…
Remembering through suffering: Agency, nostalgia and mourning in the Turkish left
Based on an ethnography conducted in Istanbul, this article analyses nostalgia and the perpetuation of mourning among former leftist militants of revolutionary organizations, who were the main targets of the political repression following the 1980-1983…
Struggling lives and symbolic boundaries: Violence, young people and trauma in post-conflict Belfast
In Belfast, despite everyone knowing the conventional date that put an end to the Northern Irish conflict, commonly known as The Troubles, many people still suffer from its legacies to this day. In this article, I consider both post-conflict dynamics a…
Antonello Ricci, ed, L’eredità rivisitata: Storie di un’antropologia in stile italiano, Roma, CISU, 2019, pp. 655
Book review of Antonello Ricci, ed, L’eredità rivisitata: Storie di un’antropologia in stile italiano, Roma, CISU, 2019, pp. 655.
Francisco Martínez, Lili Di Puppo, Martin Demant Frederiksen, eds, Peripheral methodologies: Unlearning, not-knowing and ethnographic limits, Abingdon and New York, Routledge, 2021, pp. 199
Book review of Francisco Martínez, Lili Di Puppo, Martin Demant Frederiksen, eds, Peripheral methodologies: Unlearning, not-knowing and ethnographic limits, Abingdon and New York, Routledge, 2021, pp. 199.
Douglas R. Holmes, Integralismi europei: Capitalismo veloce, multiculturalismo, neofascismo, edizione italiana e traduzione a cura di Berardino Palumbo e Giovanni Pizza, Milano, Meltemi, 2020, pp. 382
Book review of Douglas R. Holmes, Integralismi europei: Capitalismo veloce, multiculturalismo, neofascismo, edizione italiana e traduzione a cura di Berardino Palumbo e Giovanni Pizza, Milano, Meltemi, 2020, pp. 382.