L’articolo intende fornire un quadro generale del complesso rapporto tra pentecostalismo e svilup... more L’articolo intende fornire un quadro generale del complesso rapporto tra pentecostalismo e sviluppo per come si è configurato in Africa dopo la “svolta neoliberlista” che ha interessato il continente negli ultimi tre decenni. Il suo focus principale riguarda i programmi di sviluppo delle Chiese pentecostali rivolti ai bambini e alla loro educazione. Tali programmi offrono attività extracurriculari di tipo ricreativo ed educativo, così come studi biblici. Essi sono spesso finanziati da agenzie transnazionali e interdenominazionali che lavorano con le Chiese etiopi, quali la Mulu Wengel Church. Il focus dell’articolo è sui contenuti del lavoro educativo, cercando di intendere in quale modo si possa parlare di una pedagogia pentecostale. Il lavoro portato avanti nelle Chiese mira a costruire la “persona pentecostale” come un individuo capace di muoversi nelle incertezze della vita sociale. L’articolo quindi si confronta con la questione della relazione tra la costruzione dell’individuo...
The paper aims to discuss some findings of an ongoing research on pharmaceuticals in the Regional... more The paper aims to discuss some findings of an ongoing research on pharmaceuticals in the Regional state of Tgray of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. The paper focuses on the market of pharmaceuticals, local and imported. It has to be viewed as a complex phenomenon, which includes the western, traditional and religious drugs. The three arenas are not independent of one another. In fact, they are interrelated in a system, which is shaped by social forces and rooted in history. The analysis must not elude these dimensions and the following questions will be addressed: what are, both at private and public levels, the politics of distribution of western pharmaceuticals? How do the charity organizations and NGO policies affect the distribution models? How do people use it in facing the major infectious diseases? How are western pharmaceuticals perceived and used? What are the relationships among western, religious and traditional drugs? The paper will attempt to answer these questions.
Interrogati su quali strumenti concettuali e politici possano essere offerti al variegato mondo d... more Interrogati su quali strumenti concettuali e politici possano essere offerti al variegato mondo della cooperazione sanitaria internazionale, i contributi contenuti in questo volume richiamano l'attenzione sulla prospettiva della giustizia sociale, in opposizione agli interventi umanitari fondati esclusivamente sul diritto alla vita. La prospettiva della giustizia sociale si inserisce in un filone filosofico-politico che ben si è coniugato con le ricerche antropologiche in campo medico degli ultimi decenni. Essa invita a considerare la malattia e le pratiche della cura nella loro globalità, ossia come esperienze sociali, politiche, economiche - estesamente culturali - interrogando le dinamiche del potere a livello locale, regionale, nazionale, transnazionale. Gli autori dei saggi (antropologi, medici cooperanti ed economisti dello sviluppo) a partire da ricerche e azioni concrete, offrono riflessioni aggiornate sulle differenti concezioni del corpo, le gerarchie tra saperi medici e le loro connessioni etico-politiche. I contesti locali analizzati sono inseriti nella storia contemporanea dei trattati internazionali di salute globale, rivolgendo una specifica attenzione agli squilibri mondiali, ai processi migratori e alle azioni di cooperazione transnazionale. Il volume offre pertanto a quanti si interessano di cura, medicina e salute, percorsi di ricerca e proposte di azioni orientate all'estensione del diritto alla salute globale
The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 2002
KARTHALA sur Internet: http://www. karthala. com Paiement sécurisé Couverture: Rêve de danseuse. ... more KARTHALA sur Internet: http://www. karthala. com Paiement sécurisé Couverture: Rêve de danseuse. Tableau du peintre Emeric Davies. Éditions KARTHALA, 2010 ISBN: 978-2-8111-0409-2 ... SOUS LA DIRECTION DE François-Xavier Fauvelle-Aymar Jean-...
Communists and Jews before and after the Six-Day War. The karst phenomenon of left-wing anti-Semi... more Communists and Jews before and after the Six-Day War. The karst phenomenon of left-wing anti-Semitism
The 1967 war between Israel and the Middle Eastern Arab states marked a crisis point in the relationship between the Italian Jewish communities, the PCI and the left in general, which was strong in the post-World War II period mainly due to the common anti-fascist matrix. In this essay, the author retraces the salient points of this crisis, privileging the use of sources from inside the community. At stake is not only an international political option, but a more comprehensive discourse that, starting from Israel, questions different dimensions committed to anti-Semitism. Reviewing that debate and extending it to the years that followed the war, he highlights the emergence of new stereotypes against Jews, first and foremost the reversal of the image of victim to that of perpetrator, which nonetheless remains an ahistorical and essentialist image. The final part briefly discusses the intellectual and political genealogies of leftist anti-Semitism which in many ways is a ‘karstic’ phenomenon.
L’efficacia tra simbolo e condizioni materiali di esistenza Il testo discute di alcuni contributi... more L’efficacia tra simbolo e condizioni materiali di esistenza Il testo discute di alcuni contributi di Tullio Seppilli attraverso cui e possibile inquadrare la sua specifica ricerca sulla efficacia delle terapie. Ne emerge una idea complessa in cui convergono interessi verso specifici meccanismi fisiologici, attivati da peculiari meccanismi culturali, che portano lo studioso a un confronto con le scienze “psi”, cosi come con quelle neurofisiologiche e con quanti, tra gli antropologi, hanno lavorato su questo tema. La questione in Seppilli e resa piu complessa dal rapporto stretto che egli rimarca tra specifiche configurazioni culturali, viste nella loro storicita, e le condizioni materiali di esistenza del gruppo in cui esse si ritrovano. L’insistenza verso le condizioni materiali va vista come connessa all’impianto teorico gramsciano e marxista su cui egli fonda la sua ricerca in antropologia medica. Cio e reso evidente dai contributi teorici, presi in esame in questo testo, in cui e...
Book review of Roberto Malighetti, Angela Molinari, Il metodo e l’antropologia. Il contributo di ... more Book review of Roberto Malighetti, Angela Molinari, Il metodo e l’antropologia. Il contributo di una scienza inquieta , Milano, Raffaello Cortina Editore, 2016, pp. 293.
This volume draws on a range of ethnographic and historical material to provide insight into witc... more This volume draws on a range of ethnographic and historical material to provide insight into witchcraft in Sub-Saharan Africa. The chapters explore a variety of cultural contexts, with contributions focusing on Cameroon, Central African Republic, Ghana, Mali, Ethiopia and Eritrean diaspora. The book considers the concept of witchcraft itself, the interrelations with religion and medicine and the theoretical frameworks employed to explain the nature of modern African witchcraft representations.
Il confronto tra la biomedicina e i sistemi medici "tradizionali" ha assunto, nei vari ... more Il confronto tra la biomedicina e i sistemi medici "tradizionali" ha assunto, nei vari contesti storico-sociali, facce diverse e differenti intonazioni. Con una attenzione particolare alle dinamiche connesse al processo di integrazione delle medicine tradizionali e dei loro operatori nei sistemi sanitari nazionali di molti paesi extraeuropei, il volume raccoglie una serie di saggi di studiosi di differenti Paesi che analizzano i termini di tale confronto, lo status delle tradizioni terapeutiche locali e i loro mutamenti attuali, i rapporti tra realtà globali e situazioni specifiche, i problemi di gestione e di potere che ne derivano
L’articolo intende fornire un quadro generale del complesso rapporto tra pentecostalismo e svilup... more L’articolo intende fornire un quadro generale del complesso rapporto tra pentecostalismo e sviluppo per come si è configurato in Africa dopo la “svolta neoliberlista” che ha interessato il continente negli ultimi tre decenni. Il suo focus principale riguarda i programmi di sviluppo delle Chiese pentecostali rivolti ai bambini e alla loro educazione. Tali programmi offrono attività extracurriculari di tipo ricreativo ed educativo, così come studi biblici. Essi sono spesso finanziati da agenzie transnazionali e interdenominazionali che lavorano con le Chiese etiopi, quali la Mulu Wengel Church. Il focus dell’articolo è sui contenuti del lavoro educativo, cercando di intendere in quale modo si possa parlare di una pedagogia pentecostale. Il lavoro portato avanti nelle Chiese mira a costruire la “persona pentecostale” come un individuo capace di muoversi nelle incertezze della vita sociale. L’articolo quindi si confronta con la questione della relazione tra la costruzione dell’individuo...
The paper aims to discuss some findings of an ongoing research on pharmaceuticals in the Regional... more The paper aims to discuss some findings of an ongoing research on pharmaceuticals in the Regional state of Tgray of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. The paper focuses on the market of pharmaceuticals, local and imported. It has to be viewed as a complex phenomenon, which includes the western, traditional and religious drugs. The three arenas are not independent of one another. In fact, they are interrelated in a system, which is shaped by social forces and rooted in history. The analysis must not elude these dimensions and the following questions will be addressed: what are, both at private and public levels, the politics of distribution of western pharmaceuticals? How do the charity organizations and NGO policies affect the distribution models? How do people use it in facing the major infectious diseases? How are western pharmaceuticals perceived and used? What are the relationships among western, religious and traditional drugs? The paper will attempt to answer these questions.
Interrogati su quali strumenti concettuali e politici possano essere offerti al variegato mondo d... more Interrogati su quali strumenti concettuali e politici possano essere offerti al variegato mondo della cooperazione sanitaria internazionale, i contributi contenuti in questo volume richiamano l'attenzione sulla prospettiva della giustizia sociale, in opposizione agli interventi umanitari fondati esclusivamente sul diritto alla vita. La prospettiva della giustizia sociale si inserisce in un filone filosofico-politico che ben si è coniugato con le ricerche antropologiche in campo medico degli ultimi decenni. Essa invita a considerare la malattia e le pratiche della cura nella loro globalità, ossia come esperienze sociali, politiche, economiche - estesamente culturali - interrogando le dinamiche del potere a livello locale, regionale, nazionale, transnazionale. Gli autori dei saggi (antropologi, medici cooperanti ed economisti dello sviluppo) a partire da ricerche e azioni concrete, offrono riflessioni aggiornate sulle differenti concezioni del corpo, le gerarchie tra saperi medici e le loro connessioni etico-politiche. I contesti locali analizzati sono inseriti nella storia contemporanea dei trattati internazionali di salute globale, rivolgendo una specifica attenzione agli squilibri mondiali, ai processi migratori e alle azioni di cooperazione transnazionale. Il volume offre pertanto a quanti si interessano di cura, medicina e salute, percorsi di ricerca e proposte di azioni orientate all'estensione del diritto alla salute globale
The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 2002
KARTHALA sur Internet: http://www. karthala. com Paiement sécurisé Couverture: Rêve de danseuse. ... more KARTHALA sur Internet: http://www. karthala. com Paiement sécurisé Couverture: Rêve de danseuse. Tableau du peintre Emeric Davies. Éditions KARTHALA, 2010 ISBN: 978-2-8111-0409-2 ... SOUS LA DIRECTION DE François-Xavier Fauvelle-Aymar Jean-...
Communists and Jews before and after the Six-Day War. The karst phenomenon of left-wing anti-Semi... more Communists and Jews before and after the Six-Day War. The karst phenomenon of left-wing anti-Semitism
The 1967 war between Israel and the Middle Eastern Arab states marked a crisis point in the relationship between the Italian Jewish communities, the PCI and the left in general, which was strong in the post-World War II period mainly due to the common anti-fascist matrix. In this essay, the author retraces the salient points of this crisis, privileging the use of sources from inside the community. At stake is not only an international political option, but a more comprehensive discourse that, starting from Israel, questions different dimensions committed to anti-Semitism. Reviewing that debate and extending it to the years that followed the war, he highlights the emergence of new stereotypes against Jews, first and foremost the reversal of the image of victim to that of perpetrator, which nonetheless remains an ahistorical and essentialist image. The final part briefly discusses the intellectual and political genealogies of leftist anti-Semitism which in many ways is a ‘karstic’ phenomenon.
L’efficacia tra simbolo e condizioni materiali di esistenza Il testo discute di alcuni contributi... more L’efficacia tra simbolo e condizioni materiali di esistenza Il testo discute di alcuni contributi di Tullio Seppilli attraverso cui e possibile inquadrare la sua specifica ricerca sulla efficacia delle terapie. Ne emerge una idea complessa in cui convergono interessi verso specifici meccanismi fisiologici, attivati da peculiari meccanismi culturali, che portano lo studioso a un confronto con le scienze “psi”, cosi come con quelle neurofisiologiche e con quanti, tra gli antropologi, hanno lavorato su questo tema. La questione in Seppilli e resa piu complessa dal rapporto stretto che egli rimarca tra specifiche configurazioni culturali, viste nella loro storicita, e le condizioni materiali di esistenza del gruppo in cui esse si ritrovano. L’insistenza verso le condizioni materiali va vista come connessa all’impianto teorico gramsciano e marxista su cui egli fonda la sua ricerca in antropologia medica. Cio e reso evidente dai contributi teorici, presi in esame in questo testo, in cui e...
Book review of Roberto Malighetti, Angela Molinari, Il metodo e l’antropologia. Il contributo di ... more Book review of Roberto Malighetti, Angela Molinari, Il metodo e l’antropologia. Il contributo di una scienza inquieta , Milano, Raffaello Cortina Editore, 2016, pp. 293.
This volume draws on a range of ethnographic and historical material to provide insight into witc... more This volume draws on a range of ethnographic and historical material to provide insight into witchcraft in Sub-Saharan Africa. The chapters explore a variety of cultural contexts, with contributions focusing on Cameroon, Central African Republic, Ghana, Mali, Ethiopia and Eritrean diaspora. The book considers the concept of witchcraft itself, the interrelations with religion and medicine and the theoretical frameworks employed to explain the nature of modern African witchcraft representations.
Il confronto tra la biomedicina e i sistemi medici "tradizionali" ha assunto, nei vari ... more Il confronto tra la biomedicina e i sistemi medici "tradizionali" ha assunto, nei vari contesti storico-sociali, facce diverse e differenti intonazioni. Con una attenzione particolare alle dinamiche connesse al processo di integrazione delle medicine tradizionali e dei loro operatori nei sistemi sanitari nazionali di molti paesi extraeuropei, il volume raccoglie una serie di saggi di studiosi di differenti Paesi che analizzano i termini di tale confronto, lo status delle tradizioni terapeutiche locali e i loro mutamenti attuali, i rapporti tra realtà globali e situazioni specifiche, i problemi di gestione e di potere che ne derivano
Spacciati rabbiosi coatti. Periferia romana e costruzione del panico morale, 2021
Al centro di questo lavoro etnografico c’è una comitiva di circa quindici ragazzi, cresciuti in u... more Al centro di questo lavoro etnografico c’è una comitiva di circa quindici ragazzi, cresciuti in un blocco urbano, ai margini della multiforme metropoli romana. Dipinti come “gang” dai media, la narrazione intende restituire la complessità delle esistenze di questi giovani – che provano a navigare la difficile transizione verso una complessa età adulta –, analizzando e decostruendo stereotipi e pregiudizi, senza trascurare quei locali rapporti di potere in grado di mutare continuamente l’orizzonte morale. Nel lavoro emergono anche gli “altri” abitanti di Marozia (nome fittizio per questa porzione di periferia, ripreso da Le città invisibili di Italo Calvino): immigrati, Rom, operatori del sociale, volontari, forze dell’ordine, ricercatori, giornalisti, politici. Nonostante tali presenze, ciò che risalta è la quasi totale assenza sul territorio di agenti istituzionali. D’altronde è la stessa genesi di Marozia (un complesso abitativo rimasto vuoto, occupato e infine “negoziato” con la politica romana) che ne sottende il destino: l’isolamento. L’analisi antropologica tenta di indagare la dimensione della violenza e della sofferenza – fisiche e simboliche – che si sommano all’illegalità, la quale può apparire l’unica via praticabile per alimentare una diffusa etica della sussistenza e di mutuo aiuto dal basso. Il testo di Marasco rende giustizia dei tanti facili luoghi comuni con i quali si guarda alle periferie in generale. Ne ricostruisce la complessità e le contraddizioni, con sguardo lucido, non indulgente ma senz’altro partecipato. Riflette sui rapporti di forza che regolano la costruzione dei destini individuali, senza dimenticare le pratiche di resistenza e i tentativi di riscatto.
Competing orders of Medical care in Ethiopia. From Traditional Healers to Pharmaceutical Companies, 2019
Competing Orders of Medical care in Ethiopia. From Traditional Healers to Pharmaceutical Companie... more Competing Orders of Medical care in Ethiopia. From Traditional Healers to Pharmaceutical Companies, Lexington Books, 2019. Competing Orders of Medical Care in Ethiopia traces the development of pharmaceutical products and medical remedies in the health sector. It analyzes the production and distribution of medications and examines how local politics, financial resources, social relations, and neoliberal beliefs can make some treatments more widespread and accepted than others.
This volume draws on a range of ethnographic and historical material to provide insight into witc... more This volume draws on a range of ethnographic and historical material to provide insight into witchcraft in sub-Saharan Africa. The chapters explore a variety of cultural contexts, with contributions focusing on Cameroon, Central African Republic, Ghana, Mali, Ethiopia and Eritrean diaspora. The book considers the concept of witchcraft itself, the interrelations with religion and medicine, and the theoretical frameworks employed to explain the nature of modern African witchcraft representations
this book aims at placing research materials on Nzema local knowledge at the disposal of students... more this book aims at placing research materials on Nzema local knowledge at the disposal of students of medical anthropology and traditional medicine. The materials set forth concern nosographical, ethnobotanic and pharmacological knowledge and practices which have been the object of longstanding research activities in tha Nzema area (Ghana, Western Region) by the members of Italian Ethnological Mission to Ghana
THE OMNIPRESENT PAST. HISTORICAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF AFRICA AND AFRICAN DIASPORA, 2019
Editors In 'The Omnipresent Past', Bondarenko and Butovskaya have compiled a fascinating collecti... more Editors In 'The Omnipresent Past', Bondarenko and Butovskaya have compiled a fascinating collection of papers exploring the variegated ways that the continent's rich and complex history-precolonial, colonial and postcolonial-continues to impact and sometimes to haunt the lives of contemporary Africans and persons of African descent. The volume combines phenomenological approaches that consider the ways Africans experience historical memory alongside considerations of the ways in which past modalities of power continue to structure African realities. The editors have done a remarkable job of including African contributions to scholarship. This is a thought-provoking and comprehensive set of papers. Robert Launay Northwestern University Historical Anthropology of Africa and African diaspora is increasingly gaining a worldwide attention. This volume edited by Dmitri M. Bondarenko and Marina L. Butovskaya is a particular indication of the importance of the Past as far as Africa is concerned. The main objective of the volume is to present various manifestations of how the past influences the present in African societies and diaspora communities nowadays. The editors and contributors to the volume have achieved this objective by using in a very good way a specific methodological point of view which reaffirms the manifold relations between History and Anthropology within the framework of post colonial studies. The contributors have magnificently related how the past can shape modern Africa. I hope that the texts of high quality presented in this volume will initiate a dialogue, through which we will arrive at the conclusion that solutions in shaping modern Africa and African diasporas can come from objective analysis of different contexts and different perspectives. The volume is a treasure for all of us, especially Africans and Africanists. It serves also as an indispensable reference book for all students of history, anthropology, psychology and other social sciences. Jean Paulin Mengue Me Ndongo University of Yaounde 1 The colonial epoch in Africa struck the continent with many hard shocks: those shocks, however, can now be seen as just one episode in the continent's historical evolution. That evolution continues today, and is being shaped by the presence of the colonial and precolonial past in the cultural, social, and political spheres alike. Bondarenko and Butovskaya's volume brings that presence sharply into focus, both in the African continent itself and in its diaspora. External influences and pressures may play a key role in shaping Africa; it is the creative response of Africa's peoples to those pressures which will ultimately play the decisive role in the continent's future evolution. Anyone seeking to understand that evolution should read this volume.
Cultural Landscapes of Ethiopia: Conference Proceedings, ed. by D. James NARENDRA BONDLA, Wolbert G. C. SMIDT, Yoko FURUSAKI, AYELE Bekerie, Mekelle: Mekelle University Printing Press, pp. 151-162, 2015
The paper aims to discuss some findings of an ongoing research on pharmaceuticals in the Regional... more The paper aims to discuss some findings of an ongoing research on pharmaceuticals in the Regional state of Tgray of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. The paper focuses on the market of pharmaceuticals, local and imported. It
has to be viewed as a complex phenomenon, which includes the western, traditional and religious drugs. The three arenas
are not independent of one another. In fact, they are interrelated in a system, which is shaped by social forces and rooted in history. The analysis must not elude these dimensions and the following questions will be addressed: what are, both at
private and public levels, the politics of distribution of western pharmaceuticals? How do the charity organizations and
NGO policies affect the distribution models? How do people use it in facing the major infectious diseases? How are western
pharmaceuticals perceived and used? What are the relationships among western, religious and traditional drugs? The paper will attempt to answer these questions.
AM. Rivista della Società italiana di antropologia medica, n. 11-12, 2004
""This book deals with the interpretation of illness and sickness, and the systems for preserving... more ""This book deals with the interpretation of illness and sickness, and the systems for preserving and restoring health in various social contexts, kinds of therapeutic operators, plurality of prevention and recovery knowledge and practices, from shamans to western medical doctors, health preservation and magical-religious perspectives, ritual therapies effectiveness, health care delivery systems in multicultural societies. An outline of the complex and wide phenomenology of the "social side" of health/sickness dynamics.
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The paper proposed here is based on the ethnographic researches on the therapeutic resources that... more The paper proposed here is based on the ethnographic researches on the therapeutic resources that the Author has done in Ghana, in the '90s, and currently plays in Ethiopia. Even before the Alma Ata in several African countries have undertaken, in various forms, processes for the recognition of traditional medicine. For example, the case of Ghana, where since the late '50s that process is ongoing and in recent years traditional medicine has had a formal recognition. In several countries, however, in these processes there are contradictions and aporias, it is therefore necessary that they be analyzed critically. For example, several authors have noted that the recognition of traditional medicine is accomplished through a reduction to it empirical and herbal dimensions, forgetting aspects more linked to the religious world and to symbolic dimensions more in general. On the other hand has been noted (cf. De Ronsny) as such processes of recognition do not often take into account the phenomenon, more and more growing, of the Charismatic and Pentecostal churches, in which the therapeutic dimension is often preponderant. From these considerations I would like here to propose an analysis of these medicines and how they work, enabling us to better situate them in the market circuits they are involved. This is to better understand what is the relationship among these forms of therapy and the development processes, seen through the concrete practices of social actors. For this reason I want to focus my remarks on those material objects that, at different levels, are an integral part of treatment processes. The focus on the “material side” of the therapies will allow us to look at them not only as tools for therapies but also as commodities. I would like to talk about these issues from the perspective of the circulation of traditional drugs, as well as amulets and other objects (like holy water) related to religious therapies or, in any case, with the occult. These enchanted commodities often belong to the circuits informal economy. Who are the actors involved in these circuits? What is the role played by these objects? What is at stake in these kinds of informal markets? What determine the value of these objects? And then, how is possible to integrate those object and the informal circuits which they belong in an analysis of the development projects?
The paper aims to discuss some findings of an ongoing research on pharmaceuticals the A, is carry... more The paper aims to discuss some findings of an ongoing research on pharmaceuticals the A, is carrying on in the Regional State of Tigray of Federal democratic republic of Ethiopia. After presenting the context of research, the paper will focus on the market of pharmaceuticals. It has to be viewed as a complex phenomenon which should include Western drugs and traditional and religious ones as well. The three arenas are not independent but each one defines itself by its relationships with the others, in a system which is shaped by social forces and rooted in history. The analysis must not elude these dimensions. Which are, both at private and public level, the politics of distribution of western pharmaceuticals? How people use it in facing the major infectious diseases. How Western pharmaceuticals are perceived and used? Which are the relationships among Western, religious and traditional drugs? The paper will attempt to answer to these questions.
ABSTRACT Medicine e magie: Le tradizioni popolari in Italia (Medicine and Magic: Folk Traditions ... more ABSTRACT Medicine e magie: Le tradizioni popolari in Italia (Medicine and Magic: Folk Traditions in Italy). Tullio Seppilli, ed.Médecine traditionnelle: Acteurs, itinéraires thérapeutiques. Piero Coppo and Arouna Keita, eds.Profeti in città: Etnografia di quattro chiese indipendenti del Ghana (Town Prophets: Ethnography of Four Independent Churches in Ghana). Pino Schirripa.Itinerari delle emozioni: Corpo e identità femminile nel Sannio campano (Itineraries of Emotions: Women's Bodies and Identity in Sannio, Campania). Mariella Pandolfi.Sortilegio e delirio: Psicopatologia dell'emigrazione in prospettiva transculturale (Sorcery and Delusion: The Psychopathology of Emigration in Transcultural Perspective). Michele Risso and Wolfing Böker.
La cura e il potere. Salute globale, saperi antropologici, azioni di cooperazione sanitaria transnazionale, Nov 2010
Interrogati su quali strumenti concettuali e politici possano essere offerti al variegato mondo d... more Interrogati su quali strumenti concettuali e politici possano essere offerti al variegato mondo della cooperazione sanitaria internazionale, i contributi contenuti in questo volume richiamano l'attenzione sulla prospettiva della giustizia sociale, in opposizione agli interventi umanitari fondati esclusivamente sul diritto alla vita. La prospettiva della giustizia sociale si inserisce in un filone filosofico-politico che ben si è coniugato con le ricerche antropologiche in campo medico degli ultimi decenni. Essa invita a considerare la malattia e le pratiche della cura nella loro globalità, ossia come esperienze sociali, politiche, economiche - estesamente culturali - interrogando le dinamiche del potere a livello locale, regionale, nazionale, transnazionale. Gli autori dei saggi (antropologi, medici cooperanti ed economisti dello sviluppo) a partire da ricerche e azioni concrete, offrono riflessioni aggiornate sulle differenti concezioni del corpo, le gerarchie tra saperi medici e le loro connessioni etico-politiche. I contesti locali analizzati sono inseriti nella storia contemporanea dei trattati internazionali di salute globale, rivolgendo una specifica attenzione agli squilibri mondiali, ai processi migratori e alle azioni di cooperazione transnazionale. Il volume offre pertanto a quanti si interessano di cura, medicina e salute, percorsi di ricerca e proposte di azioni orientate all'estensione del diritto alla salute globale
Recent decades have highlighted a contradiction that is common throughout Europe: on the one hand... more Recent decades have highlighted a contradiction that is common throughout Europe: on the one hand, there is a growing debate on widespread religious illiteracy; on the other hand, the knowledge of the diversity of religions is becoming increasingly important as a tool for integration and processing of complex systems of coexistence and peaceful interaction.
The emergence of religious conflicts, the transformation of societies in a plural sense, the global phenomenon of migration and the associated phenomenon of diasporic religions, and more generally, the layering of identities, beliefs, customs and traditions determine the need for new systems and tools designed to enhance understanding and knowledge.
This workshop aims at building a hub for the study of religious pluralism inside Sapienza. The central objective of the project is to create a highly specialized, interdisciplinary and trans-national syllabus of methodological approaches to the study of religions.
The points of view adopted by the research team are those of the History (History of Christianity, History of Religions), Anthropology, Philosophy, Sociology, and Law; from this first stage of work, the research group is open to interdisciplinarity.
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The 1967 war between Israel and the Middle Eastern Arab states marked a crisis point in the relationship between
the Italian Jewish communities, the PCI and the left in general, which was strong in the post-World
War II period mainly due to the common anti-fascist matrix. In this essay, the author retraces the salient
points of this crisis, privileging the use of sources from inside the community. At stake is not only an international
political option, but a more comprehensive discourse that, starting from Israel, questions different
dimensions committed to anti-Semitism. Reviewing that debate and extending it to the years that followed
the war, he highlights the emergence of new stereotypes against Jews, first and foremost the reversal of the
image of victim to that of perpetrator, which nonetheless remains an ahistorical and essentialist image. The
final part briefly discusses the intellectual and political genealogies of leftist anti-Semitism which in many
ways is a ‘karstic’ phenomenon.
The 1967 war between Israel and the Middle Eastern Arab states marked a crisis point in the relationship between
the Italian Jewish communities, the PCI and the left in general, which was strong in the post-World
War II period mainly due to the common anti-fascist matrix. In this essay, the author retraces the salient
points of this crisis, privileging the use of sources from inside the community. At stake is not only an international
political option, but a more comprehensive discourse that, starting from Israel, questions different
dimensions committed to anti-Semitism. Reviewing that debate and extending it to the years that followed
the war, he highlights the emergence of new stereotypes against Jews, first and foremost the reversal of the
image of victim to that of perpetrator, which nonetheless remains an ahistorical and essentialist image. The
final part briefly discusses the intellectual and political genealogies of leftist anti-Semitism which in many
ways is a ‘karstic’ phenomenon.
Il testo di Marasco rende giustizia dei tanti facili luoghi comuni con i quali si guarda alle periferie in generale. Ne ricostruisce la complessità e le contraddizioni, con sguardo lucido, non indulgente ma senz’altro partecipato. Riflette sui rapporti di forza che regolano la costruzione dei destini individuali, senza dimenticare le pratiche di resistenza e i tentativi di riscatto.
Competing Orders of Medical Care in Ethiopia traces the development of pharmaceutical products and medical remedies in the health sector.
It analyzes the production and distribution of medications and examines how
local politics, financial resources, social relations, and neoliberal beliefs can make some treatments more widespread and accepted than others.
has to be viewed as a complex phenomenon, which includes the western, traditional and religious drugs. The three arenas
are not independent of one another. In fact, they are interrelated in a system, which is shaped by social forces and rooted in history. The analysis must not elude these dimensions and the following questions will be addressed: what are, both at
private and public levels, the politics of distribution of western pharmaceuticals? How do the charity organizations and
NGO policies affect the distribution models? How do people use it in facing the major infectious diseases? How are western
pharmaceuticals perceived and used? What are the relationships among western, religious and traditional drugs? The paper will attempt to answer these questions.
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The emergence of religious conflicts, the transformation of societies in a plural sense, the global phenomenon of migration and the associated phenomenon of diasporic religions, and more generally, the layering of identities, beliefs, customs and traditions determine the need for new systems and tools designed to enhance understanding and knowledge.
This workshop aims at building a hub for the study of religious pluralism inside Sapienza. The central objective of the project is to create a highly specialized, interdisciplinary and trans-national syllabus of methodological approaches to the study of religions.
The points of view adopted by the research team are those of the History (History of Christianity, History of Religions), Anthropology, Philosophy, Sociology, and Law; from this first stage of work, the research group is open to interdisciplinarity.