Riviste Clueb (Cooperativa Libraria Universitaria Editrice Bologna)
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«Mi fai fare un giro con la webcam?». Storie di malattia da un’etnografia digitale in Marocco
No full textIn this paper the author, starting from his research in medical anthropology on chronicity in Morocco, discusses, also according to contemporary debate on the anthropology of the web, its extension and re-adaptation digitally, following the limitations imposed on travel by Covid-19 in 2020 and 2021. The difficulties and potential of hybrid ethnography in the digital age, and in the course of a un-precedented so pervasive pandemic as the one we are living, are examined. The illness stories collected remotely with the interlocutors known on fieldwork before the pandemic show some aspects of the recent intense digital acceleration of our social life. Moreover these stories allow on the one hand to critically analyze some methodological aspects connected to digital and hybrid ethnography, and on the other to continue, despite physical distance, the research previously started in presence, albeit some adaptations and methodological updates
Ritualità d’alta quota, tra politiche culturali e sostenibilità
No full textThe Italian Western Alpine chain in the last three decades witnessed a considerable process of depopulation, demographic decline and reduction to marginal lands. Recentlysome local associations aim at protecting their surrounding environment but also at revitalizing regional economy through the reintroduction of local and historically documented cultivations, implementing - sometimes even unconsciously - a real capitalization of what was the know-how but also the community moments that revolved around different practices. In particular, the activity of devoting a specific celebration to ancient crafts, artifacts and traditional clothes, but also to the products of specific crops is a means of attracting tourists and implementing the tourist market
Uncanny companions: kinship, activism, and public health as interdependent modalities of care provision under Greek austerity
No full textThe anthropology of the economic crisis since 2007/ 08 analyses the emergence of solidarity practices among social movements, kinship, and friendship during austerity and the recession in Southern Europe. Analysing these practices alongside “resilience” allows to critically examine the interdependence of “variegated austerity” and the normative appraisal of solidarity networks and familial care practices. The article does so by proposing a 'social autopsy' of the configurations of care around an interlocutor who died in 2015 in a public hospital in Greece. The article reconstructs the symbolic and material aspects of gendered obligations, alternative economies, and austerity in public health in how his daughter Kalypso organised care in his last weeks. This analysis aims to contribute to foregrounding these uncanny compansionships when analysing uncertainty and resilience
“Zezo” a Eboli. Ovvero del “silenzio folklorico” e della “patrimonializzazione”
No full textIn the most widespread Campanian carnival representations, one of the most important figures is "Zeza", Pulcinella's wife. She plays an important symbolic role: to guarantee the prosperity of the new agricultural production cycle, therefore of men, plants and animals useful for subsistence. Wherever the "Zeza" is represented, therefore, we come across a female character who is auspicious and apotropaic. However, this does not happen in the city of Eboli, in the province of Salerno, where the historical-ethnographic research has shown, in this type of representation, now disappeared, the presence of a male character. A male character defined as "Zezo". This essay attempts to explore its causes
Afterword. Vertiginous life and the Inconstancy of Becoming in the Mediterranean
No full textThe socio-historical nexus that is topologically interwoven throughout the Mediterranean region provides the background for a comparative framework for capturing the dizzying affects of precarious life in the 21st century. The conceptual triad of uncertainty, resilience, and futures is key to presenting life on the vertiginous “edge” as people tackle crises in Greece, Italy, Morocco, Portugal and Tunisia. Standing on the brink of time and of history-making, people face a decision of whether to cling by their fingernails to former lives, former Selves, or to take the plunge into the vortex of uncertain becoming. Here I argue that such world-changing moments should be contextualised through an acknowledgement of academic and historical lineages to better package so-called “unprecedented” events. More potently, I further propose that times of uncertainty influence how people orient to the future where a sense of urgency penetrates the normalised social fabric triggering a form of affective vertigo. In the whirlpool of unforeseen social change, people experience confusion as to where and when they belong on timelines of previously unquestioned pasts and futures, manifested as disorientation and dizziness where pathways to becoming have altered dramatically.
Leggende di “sequestro” e di “espianto degli organi”. Uno studio tra Italia e Camerun
No full textThe survey presents ethnographic data on some conspiracy legends regarding COVID19 recorded in two different grounds: Cameroon and Italy. The authors focus on these legends with particular attention on the content and the intertextuality of the narration. The texts have repetitive patterns and argue that the pandemic is an invention of the “strong powers” to kidnap healthy people and explant their organs, in order to commercialize or make other sacrilegious, occult use of them. The myth of the “kidnapping” and “mutilation of bodies by occult powers / for occult ends” is also present in periods other than that of COVID-19 and falls within the vein of “urban legends” and “conspiracy theories” that attribute sacrilegious actions to minorities or other groups considered dangerous for their being essentially antisocial. This type of legend is therefore updated and put back into circulation today, in a moment of particular anguish. As the authors are still immersed in the pandemic, the conclusions of this analysis of imaginary production are precarious. Therefore, the main purpose of the article is to reflect on the production of popular thought