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Le migrazioni e il lavoro della memoria ad Armungia.Mutamenti, abbandoni e ritorni in un paese della Sardegna sud-orientale attraverso le parole dei suoi abitanti
No full textIn this essay I intend to discuss the methods and the circumstances in which the memories of the emigrations create a social fabric made of shared social representations in a community of south-eastern Sardinia. The emigrations in question are those that started, post second world war, towards the industrial and mining areas of Europe and towards the north of Italy, and that have altered forever the balance of existence between the work of farmers and shepherds in Armungia. The complex frame of reference between memory and oblivion, between the things remembered and those repressed, generates in the protagonists of the abandonment, and then of the return, a perception that is not always removed or pacified by the meaning and the reasons behind the escape from the rural life of Sardinia in the nineteen-fifties
Il dono della festa e la sua memoria visiva. Solidarietà, circolazione di cibo e di immagini in una festa religiosa della Sardegna centrale
No full textEmbodiment of the Gaze. Vision, Planning and Veawing between Filmic Ethnography and Cultural Technology
No full textThe purpose of this paper is to discuss problems concerning the observation and cinematographic description of technical practices. Which meaning should we attribute, today, to this topic within the present framework of ethno-anthropological disciplines?
Starting from an experience of observation and video documentation of traditional weaving in Sardinia, I propose to define a visual approach based on the principles of cultural technology in some of its recent developments.
Firstly, I intend to describe the skilful gaze of the Sardinian weaver (the subject of a video I co-directed), as the site of formation and origin of her expert gestures, of her planned intentions and of their implementation, using the notion of material production proposed by T. Ingold. I shall then try to define the skilful gaze of the ethnographic film-maker by applying the same explicative logic, qualifying it as a corporeal fact and as an action endowed with effects on matter (the recorded video tape). To this two-fold end, I shall try to make use of the considerations by A. Leroi-Gourhan on aesthetic behaviour during the process of hominization and those of J. P. Warnier on the concepts of motor conduct and embodiment of technical knowledge. In conclusion, I arrive at a definition of the ethnographic gaze as knowing-how-to-observe. Such knowledge is structured in analogy with the visual skill of pre-industrial technical processes, incorporating, and in some way “naturalizing”, the use of audiovisual means as selective instruments of perception, following a long apprenticeship
Tinture naturali
No full textL’antropologia contemporanea si è in vario modo occupata di analizzare e interpretare i complessi fenomeni di produzione, circolazione, consumo e valorizzazione culturale dei beni e delle merci che, nel mondo complesso, si presentano come originati dalla località e connotati dal tratto dell’autentico (Appadurai 1986, Warnier 2005; Warnier - Rosselin 1996, Lai 2005). Di pari passo, e con un’identica tensione verso la definizione degli aspetti processuali dei fenomeni, si è via via concentrata l’attenzione anche sulla figura dell’artigiano, dell’artefice e dei nuovi significati che il suo ruolo e il suo status ricoprono nel quadro sociale dato dal mercato (Sennett 2008)1. Oggi, considerare le forme di produzione dell’autenticità e della località, le nuove connotazioni della figura sociale dell’artigiano, le modalità di costituzione dei loro saperi e delle identità in essi implicati sembra essere uno degli approcci più fondati per procedere all’approntamento di una etnografia della cultura materiale dalla portata magari solo areale, ma non votata per questo al mero particolarismo descrittivo2
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