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foodanthro , May 31st, 2022
Campanale, Joe, and Joshua David Stein. Vino: The Essential Guide to Real Italian Wine. Clarkson Potter, 2022. 320 pp. ISBN 9780593136140. Jesse Dart, Arizona State University, Swette Center…
| , May 16th, 2022
Interview by Jonah Rubin https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501750793/the-truth-society/ Jonah Rubin: So much has been written about what media literacy scholars have termed our …
alex.clegg , March 3rd, 2022
Author: Charlotte Hawkins As part of the ASSA project, we are currently working to publish a volume called: ‘An Anthropological Approach to mHealth: Health & Care in the…
| , November 29th, 2021
Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Italy Interview by Rachel Howard Rachel Howard: As you note, active aging agendas “aim to encourage people to exercise control over the aging…
Maximilian C. Forte , June 5th, 2021
On March 11, 2020, when the World Health Organization announced that COVID-19’s spread was now a pandemic, and on March 13, 2020, when here in Quebec a total…
dsutton20 , January 11th, 2021
Food Festivals and Local Development in Italy: A Viewpoint from Economic Anthropology. Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco. London: Palgrave MacMillan. ISBN #978-3-030-53321-2. Xli + 179 pp Dav…
| , January 4th, 2021
Interview by Janet Connor https://www.dukeupress.edu/fabricating-transnational-capitalism Janet Conner: Why is fashion so good for thinking about capitalism? Lisa Rofel and Sylvia Yanagi…
| , December 7th, 2020
Re-reading page 99 of my dissertation, I’m snapped back to the mosque in Milan, Italy that I came to know so well. Where public school children convened to…
Rebecca_Irons , November 27th, 2020
MICHELA COZZA On 21 March 2020, during the first COVID-19 pandemic peak in Italy, a group of doctors working at the Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital in Bergamo, published…
Chelsea Horton , November 20th, 2020
In noughties Italy, the Bubble Gum choir performed a liberatory counterimage of the feminine. Today, Bacca’s chorus breathes new life into the ensemble of characters and an impermanent…
Diego Maria Malara , October 26th, 2020
Indro Montanelli (1909-2001), the most famous journalist in Italian history, is an intellectual figure whose memory commands respect across Italy’s political spectrum. But, following the global protes…
Chiara Alfieri , October 15th, 2020
This post was co-authored by members of CoMeSCov program who contributed to the development of research questions, data collection tools and data analysis: Firmin Kra, Francesca Mininel, Fleur…
Stefan Voicu , September 10th, 2020
‘Don’t come home this year’ is a short video about Romanian migrants returning home from Italy during the Covid-19 pandemic. The video uses viral live streamed footage of…
Chelsea Horton , June 19th, 2020
In March 2020, a video of Italian mayors scolding citizens for failing to stay at home went viral. Only ostensibly insignificant, these clickable white men reveal new forms…
| , May 25th, 2020
https://www.routledge.com/Narrating-Migration-Intimacies-of-Exclusion-in-Northern-Italy-1st-Edition/Perrino/p/book/9781138584679 Interview by Daniela Narvaez Daniela Narvaez: In your book, you reflec…
Viviana L. Toro Matuk , May 25th, 2020
On Friday March 21th 2020, the Fula men, who live in the town of Gabu, in the northeast of Guinea-Bissau, did not meet to pray in their mosques….
Megan Carney , April 28th, 2020
Spain and Italy, two of the countries most affected early on by COVID-19, were also among the EU member-states that underwent severe and extended austerity measures following the…
Rebecca_Irons , April 12th, 2020
SARA SALVATORI In this article, I will briefly describe my experiences during the two pandemics, swine flu and COVID-19, when I accidentally l…
dsutton20 , April 12th, 2020
Carole Counihan. Italian Food Activism in Urban Sardinia: Place, Taste, and Community. Bloomsbury Academic. 2019. Pp. i-176. ISBN 9781474262286 (hardback) 9781474262309 (epdf) Abigail E. Adams (Centr…
Rebecca_Irons , April 11th, 2020
FRANCESCO FLORIS On 4th April, more than two months after the declaration of the state of emergency and almost one month after the start of the quarantine throughout…
Andrea Tollardo: No return to old normalities: Reflections on a time of passage in locked down Italy
focaal_admin , April 9th, 2020
At the end of February, the center of Italian capital encountered an unexpected problem. Not an unforeseeable one, but one that was not previously thought possible in the…
focaal_admin , April 9th, 2020
A prolonged wait at the pharmacy, a long queue before entering a supermarket. Experiences like this, today increasingly common, can help us to see how the spreading of…
Rebeca Ibáñez Martín , April 9th, 2020
The balcony has become a powerful domestic space symbolizing corona-solidarity in the south of Europe. Movie clips of Italians singing their national anthem from their balconies were broadcast…
Alessandro Monsutti , April 7th, 2020
This little essay was conceived wandering in the Swiss countryside. I’m on sabbatical leave and my whole work and travel program has been disrupted by the measures taken…