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L. Bellantonio
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Riflessioni sull'opera di Giuseppe Pitrè nel primo centenario della scomparsa. Gli scritti inediti
2017
The essay, on the occasion of the first centenary of the disappearance of Giuseppe Pitrè (1841-1916), focuses on those unpublished works that have been edited and published during the National edtion of 1985, which was dedicated to the most accomplished folklorist of Palermo. The topic of this essay is mostly aimed to the lessons the Professor held at the University of Palermo since 1910 until 1916.The former edition made possible to focus on about sixty papers, including unpublished ones, that frame the magnitude of his contribute to the study of peculiar folklore in Sicily: “Demopsicologia” through which a part of popular Italian poetry, foreign popular poetry and short stories, have been…
Migration, then and now as a resource
2017
The migratory phenomenon that is currently affecting Europe and, in particular Italy, is not, as is commonly believed, a recent event, since more than thirty years ago, already represented a sig- nificant reality, although smaller and, above all, with fewer deaths.
Fanon, “Profeta del Terzo Mondo unitario”, e la “crisi” dell’antropologia
2018
The essay is inspired by the works of Frantz Fanon, Martinican psychiatrist and revolutionary man, prematurely disappeared in 1961, who became, in Italy too, between the years 1968 and 1970, an icon of the youth protest movement, of the anti-racist organizations and of the liberation movements. His short but intense life developed between a theoretic production (on the psychiatry of the colonised subject and on racism) and his personal political commitment for the liberation of colonized countries. He supported, and became its spokesman, the Algerian National Liberation Front during the Algerian War. The recent re-printing of some of his works and the large quantity of foreign articles publ…