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Just a foreword? Malinowski, Geertz and the anthropologist as native
2006
Read through semiotic analysis, the narrative intrigue of (the evenemential and cognitive dimension of) the anthropologist’s work reveals the epistemological configuration encasing some central and interrelated questions in anthropology: the communication-interaction between anthropologists and other inter-actants, their invention-application of some metalanguages and the subsequent intercultural translations of concepts and processes. To explore this configuration, I compare a foreword written by Malinowski and another one written by Geertz. In these forewords, they resort to refined stories to frame complex argumentations. In Malinowski’s foreword, two superposing stories are told: (1) a …
Malinowski and Bloch in the Field: Fragments, Beginnings and Imaginations
2010
Lo zoccolo molle e più clandestino del saggio è costituito dallo smussamento graduale, ma incondizionato della nozione di autore in favore di una funzione autore che consente di meglio fare emergere (o, viceversa, fare sparire), sull’esempio di Foucault, la consistenza apparente di un atto originario dietro il brusio delle voci della cultura. Il contributo è più apertamente incentrato sulla comparazione inedita di un antropologo e di uno storico: Bronislaw Malinowski e Marc Bloch. Mi sono servito intenzionalmente della ‘comparazione’ allo scopo di tentare un montaggio di alcuni testi dei due autori (alieni l’uno all’altro per formazione e per esperienze teoriche) e il mio stesso, graduale e…
L’osservazione partecipante. Un topos metodologico problematico
2020
While it is well known that fieldwork started long before Malinowski, it is equally well known that the ethnographic method based on participant observation has been, since the 1920’s, taken as a foundation for anthropological research and for the scientific status of the knowledge acquired by its means. This essay has several purposes: highlighting some issues related to Malinowski’s theory and practice of research, which are full of implications not always grasped in their theoretical and methodological complexity; recalling some criticisms that have been put forward in the anthropological debate towards the notion of reflexive observation; discussing some uses and abuses of ethnographic …
Commenti a “Bronislaw Malinowski, l’antropologia pratica, la politica e il colonialismo” di Antonino Colajanni, con una risposta dell’autore
2022
Commenti a “Bronislaw Malinowski, l’antropologia pratica, la politica e il colonialismo” di Antonino Colajanni, con contributi di Marco Bassi, Valeria Ribeiro Corossacz, Antonio De Lauri, Frederico Delgado Rosa, Andrea E. Pia, Leonardo Piasere, Daniela Salvucci, Ivan Severi, Barbara Sorgoni, Jaro Stacul, Giuseppe Tateo, Elisabeth Tauber, Dorothy L. Zinn, Pier Paolo Viazzo e una risposta dell’autore.
La Sicile de Maupassant, la sémio-anthropologie des incipit et le nomadisme de la pensée
2017
A reflection on a travel to Sicily by Maupassant becomes an occasion to discuss the category continuous/discontinuous and the symmetric notion of beginning. The starting question is: how can we define a beginning? To answer this question, I adopt a double strategy: on the one side, I resort to some specialists in this field (Lotman, Said, Aragon and Gracq) who allow me – by deferring to some other concepts, authors and theories – to focus on the notion of existence itself and on the nomadism of thinking developed by Deleuze; on the other hand, I concentrate more analytically on a beginning by Maupassant and on a beginning by Malinowski in order to underline the importance of interdisciplina…