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Ethnography on tourist spaces
2017
Tourism-related research, despite the great number of books and studies, seems to face one of its worst epistemological crises. At some extent, scholars have serious difficulties to define what tourism means. Though anthropology was the discipline more prone to tourism, as it is, a rite of passage, the current state of indiscipline claimed by Tribe, de Escalona and Korstanje as well as the autonomy of an international academy is more oriented to marketing than to science, are some of the problems tourism research faces today (Tribe, 1997, 2010; Korstanje, 2010; de Escalona, 2015). In this difficult context, Nogues Pedregal provides readers with a masterful ethnography which serves to interp…
Domestication of a Robotic Medication-Dispensing Service Among Older People in Finnish Lapland
2020
This paper presents a case study on a robotic medication-dispensing service used in the everyday lives of older people in Finnish Lapland through the concept of domestication. The study took an ethnographic approach. A total of 11 service users, practical nurses, and other health-care professionals participated; the service users averaged age 81 years (M= 81.4, SD = 5.4). The data comprised semistructured interviews complemented by observations and photographs at service users’ homes. We concluded that the domestication of the service was successful, although the service users sometimes felt that it limited their lives. The service users stated that learning and subsequently using the servi…
Etnografia giuridica a Ballarò. Per dirottare il verso del sapere
2021
In Palermo, the Law department and a poor bazar of used things share the same square. Even if so closed, the academy and the market ignored and inspect each other with a mutual suspect for a long time. This happened as long as in an academic course an experiment of collaboration between students and merchants has been launched. The aim was to look at the right from the margin and to rewrite the rules together. The produced regulation draft has been used by the Municipality to make the market official. From this experience emerges an idea of university epistemologically humble, able to renounce to the title of knowledge’s monopolist and to activate processes of knowledge co-creation.
Forgiare la musica. Da Tubal-Kain ai mastri ferrai siciliani
2021
The idea of the “blacksmith musician” was widely spread in the ancient world: from the biblical myth of the blacksmith Tubal-Kain, half-brother of Jubal, inventor of musical instruments (lyre, psaltery, flute), to the legend handed down in Helleno-Latin literature that attributed to Pythagoras the discovery of musical intervals as he walked past a blacksmith’s forge. In the christianized Europe of the medieval-Renaissance period, the link between music and metallurgy, associated with the biblical blacksmith and the Greek philosopher, undergoes significant reworkings, both in the iconographic tradition and music literature. The ethnological investigation also offers numerous examples of musi…
CELEBRATING WOMEN ARTISTS IN JORDAN: REFRAMING GENDER ROLES AS RESISTANCE
This thesis focuses on women artists in the capital of Jordan, Amman, and particularly on their cultural practices as an expression of a creative agency. These women create independent spaces, cultural initiatives, public performances and original artworks that allow the reframing of gender roles in neoliberal patriarchal societies today. Beyond labeling the emergence of a new female activism, or femtivism, as feminist or revolutionary, I suggest reading it as the reconfiguration of a new wave of feminisms in Jordan, which engages with the visual arts, the contemporary cultural scene of Amman, the geography of the city and the political commitment, often in informal domains rather than in i…
Semioantropologia come traduzione del vissuto
2015
Si tratta di una breve etnografia del pensare trascritta tenendo conto del dialogo stabilito tra testo e immagini, tra processi di pensieri e ineludibili forme di codificazione. Il pensiero non viene concepito come risultato di pura forma di cognizione distante dal processo, bensì come atto e processo che si intreccia strettamente con le emozioni e le pratiche in corso. Il quadro d'insieme generale è quello concernente il quotidiano e il fieldwork non esotizzante. It is a short ethnography of thinking written by keeping into account the dialogue established between text and images, processes of thinking and forms of codification. As a consequence, thinking is not conceived as a result of a …
La teoria degli schemi della pratica di Descola e il caso etnografico dei Wayùu
2022
The chapter traces Descola's interest in the collocation of the cosmology of the indigenous Wayùu people of the Guajira peninsula within his typology of ontologies and modes of identification. It also deals with the positions of those scholars who have proposed reinterpretations of Wayùu ethnography in the light of Descola's theory of the patterns of practice exposed in 'Beyond Nature et Culture'
ХЛЕБ И ПРАЗДНИК НА СИЦИЛИИ (Bread and Festivities in Sicily)
2011
Among the important parts of the traditional calendar rites in Sicily are bakery and pastry products made in special shapes. Being produced and consumed during certain rituals and being shaped to reflect their mystic connotations, these products become the integral signs of these rituals in both the constitutive and functional sense. What is refl ected in their symbolism, beliefs, and related practices is the deeply archaic peasant worldview in the framework of which these rituals had been shaped; and in particular, it is the meaning that is attached to the infl uence of chthonic forces in the cyclic reproduction of natural and social life.
Le “verità” del racconto. Riflessioni epistemologiche sulla ricerca nei contesti di mafia
2019
Il saggio affronta alcune questioni metodologiche relative all’uso delle storie di vita e del racconto biografico in contesti di ricerca sulla criminalità organizzata mafiosa. Partendo dalle testimonianze di uomini e donne appartenenti al mondo di Cosa Nostra (raccolte in un ampio arco temporale), si sofferma su una complessa esperienza di studio: l’ascolto del racconto di vita di Gaspare Spatuzza, tra l’ottobre del 2012 e l’ottobre del 2013, in un carcere in località protetta. In questo scenario analitico, si colloca l’interrogativo su come posizionare il “discorso” sulle mafie all’interno di “spazi simbolici” nei quali si fonda l’epistemologia del racconto. Una narrazione che interroga (d…
La “giusta distanza”: questioni metodologiche e regole dell’interazione nel récit de vie di un collaboratore di giustizia
2020
Il saggio affronta alcune questioni metodologiche relative all’uso del racconto biografico dei collaboratori di giustizia. Partendo da diverse testimonianze raccolte tra uomini e donne appartenenti al mondo di Cosa Nostra, nel corso di un ampio arco temporale, il lavoro si sofferma su una lunga intervista con Gaspare Spatuzza realizzata in 9 incontri svoltisi, tra l’ottobre del 2012 e l’ottobre del 2013, in un carcere in località protetta. I diversi piani analitici in gioco, legati alla personalità del soggetto e alla peculiarità della sua narrazione, hanno reso il testo di analisi fluido e incandescente. L’incrociarsi della storia di Spatuzza con la mia biografia ha richiesto uno sforzo ul…