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Editoriale
No full textIl saggio presenta i contenuti del numero 1, volume 6, anno 2018, di EtnoAntropologia, rivista in fascia A per il settore M-DEA/01. Tale numero ospita una sezione monografica, curata da Alberto Baldi e Tamara Mykhaylyak, composta da sei contributi che ricostruiscono in una prospettiva storica, teorica e metodologica vicende e percorsi della museografia antropologica, dell’etnografia, e dell’antropologia visuale che in Russia ha rappresentato fin dagli esordi del cinema un filone centrale della ricerca antropologica. Il numero include anche cinque ulteriori articoli di ricerca nell’area miscellanea che coprono argomenti che vanno dall'antropologia del cibo e dell'arte a quella medica
Rajastan. Osservando la complessità
No full textUna ricerca e un photoreportage sul Rajastan in una prospettiva etnografica ove testi e immagini convergono nell'analisi di dimensioni identitarie e culturali della regione e al contempo sulle discrasiche contraddizioni di un'area afflitta da una povertà tanto endemica quanto vissuta con dignita
Presentazione [Affinità e convergenze: Francesco d'Assisi, don Lorenzo Milani, papa Francesco]
No full textCosa c'entra la santità penitente di Francesco e il suo ruvido amore per madonna povertà, la santità violentata dalla Chiesa che don Milani porta con sé nel suo amore incendiario per la parola con papa Francesco, il cristiano che viene dal sud del mondo per dire che la forma del santo Evangelo non diventerà mai la forma della santa chiesa romana, ma può abitarne il centro? È questa la domanda che nasce e viene da queste pagine che Valdemaro Baldi scrive, ponendosi dal punto di vista di un non credente. Perché queste figure così diverse catturano l'interesse di chi vede non tanto un fare, ma un lasciarsi fare dal Vangelo, che diventa eloquente. Il Vangelo non è trasmissione di nozioni religiose o sapienziali e tantomeno di "valori": è "cosa" che agisce e la cui efficacia lega indissolubilmente tre dimensioni: la sua propria forza, la credibilità di chi parla e la condizione di chi ascolta. Il percorso dei temi trattati dai tre Personaggi invita a riflettere, ieri come oggi
Antropologie dell’est.Una prima panoramica su storia e ambiti della ricerca museografica, etnografica e audiovisuale
No full textThe monographic section of this issue of EthnoAnthropology is dedicated to the history of the Russian anthropological sciences, to the museography and methodology of ethnographic research and finally to the visual anthropology in Russia. The essays of some prestigious exponents of anthropology, of anthropological museography and of Russian visual anthropology are published. This essay that introduces to the section intends to underline the ideas and themes we find particularly significant in the articles of the Eastern colleagues hosted here, also making parallels with scientific positions, themes and paths of Western and Italian anthropology and visual anthropology
Stereotipi da vedere, amalgama artificioso e poliedrico di etnocentrismi vecchi e nuovi
No full textIn this essay we analyze that stigmatization of the other, of the different that is realized through the production of visual and showy stereotypes and that therefore is articulated in the graphic, pictorial and sculptural sign. We are faced with a representation fed by a strategy of containment which, while visually materializing diversity at the same time despises and demonises it, fixes it, circumscribes it in graffiti, wall painting, statuary, fetish, puppet, toy and doll, and therefore in clay, stone, wood, iron, ivory, marble, even plastic, yesterday as today
Etno-show. Quando l’antropologia andò in scena, un’antropologia bella da vedere
No full textThe second half of the nineteenth century witness an anthropology that from the narrow scientific fields shifts to the forestage of exhibitions and universal expositions. It takes a more essentially
popular, pedagogical and often absolutely spectacular capacity and role, using archeomedia’s technological know-how, like peepshow, stereoscopy, magic lantern, panorama and moving panorama, diorama, stereorama and cinerama. On closer inspection, it is indeed a reciprocal exchange: these means of entertainment too, in turn willingly draw from ethnography to put on stage an exoticism which is more and more alluring, prurient, feral, and also revolting, but which does pay well at the box office. It is a variegated Otherness which turns up, sometimes near, some other three-dimensional and
tangible, in other words “alive”; it follows postures and is in relation with activities, situations and environments which instead hypostasize and strictly control it, thus reasserting the hegemony of a western perspective which depicts intriguing “postcards” of this otherness, and puts a price on it with the complicity of Anthropology; rather with a certain Anthropology which embellishes the world, changing it in a sort of ethno-show
L’italica, etno-avventurosa vulgata del mare 1940-2000
No full textBetween the first and second half of the twentieth century, a literature of mingled origins and nature springs in opposition to an Italian Anthropology not too focused on the marine dimension. It is the answer to the "need for the sea" that the industry, the cultural one too, instilled in large layers of the population, being them middle and lower class, as a result of the strong push to consumerism that followed the economic boom and subsequently identifies in the marine dimension a new and thriving business. The publication of technical manuals in order to explain to these "new Neptune" how to swim, dive, fish, sail, surf, drive a motorboat go hand in hand with naturalistic, historical and cultural monographs together with encyclopaedic works. Tales of navigation and of maritime and coastal peoples also encompass elements with a strong ethnographic connotation. This context paves the way to authors with a complex and composite background: writers, journalists, photographers, documentary filmmakers, underwater fishermen, archaeologists, biologists, navigators and sailors who, in their expeditions to the seas around the globe, discover an ethnographic vein, a penchant for observation, often the result of the long time spent on the field. The authors we are specifically dealing with, certainly contribute to document an important object of investigation: the sea, in which Italian professional anthropologists were little interested
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