Book Review: Undoing Coups. The African Union and Post-coup Intervention in Madagascar by Antonia Witt
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print.
Supporting First-Generation Introductory Anthropology Students: Lessons from a Regional Midwestern University
First-generation college students (students whose parents did not complete a bachelor’s degree) are a growing population within U.S. colleges. These students often belong to historically underrepresented populations including racial and ethnic minority…
Editorial
A note from the Editor-in-chief.
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…
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.
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…
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.
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…
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.
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…
AMC 100 + 1: Introduction
Introduction to Anniversary Forum Cirese 101: Rereading Antonio Gramsci’s “Observations on Folklore”, 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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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: 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 …
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.
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.
Carole Counihan, Attivismo alimentare in Sardegna: Luoghi, sapori e comunità, Torino, Rosenberg & Sellier, 2020, pp. 248
Book review of Carole Counihan, Attivismo alimentare in Sardegna: Luoghi, sapori e comunità, Torino, Rosenberg & Sellier, 2020, pp. 248.
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.
Europe in the Woods: Reflections on the Situation at the Polish-Belarusian Border
Articles
Navigating Post-prison Life: Social Positioning in Unstable Circumstances
People that are released from prison experience life outside of prison as unpredictable and insecure. They are faced with stigmatization, poverty, and feelings of alienation from the “world outside”, which limit formerly incarcerated men’s opportunitie…
The Social Consequences of Identifying a Genetic Disease with an Endogamous Ethnic Group: The Kashubian Case
Development of genetics research has contributed to the detection of genetic diseases. One of them is the LCHAD enzyme deficiency, relatively common in the Kashubian population, and therefore by […]