“Fata Morgana”: ancora su strabismi e asincronie

This paper deals with some of the theoretical issues raised, during the last years, by some Fabio Dei's contributions and the debates they have produced. In particular, I argue that the "critical anthropology" identified in those interventions as a polemical objective, rather than an...

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Main Author: Berardino Palumbo
Format: Article
Language:Italian
Published: Dipartimento Culture e Società - Università di Palermo 2021-06-01
Series:Archivio Antropologico Mediterraneo
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/aam/3818
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description This paper deals with some of the theoretical issues raised, during the last years, by some Fabio Dei's contributions and the debates they have produced. In particular, I argue that the "critical anthropology" identified in those interventions as a polemical objective, rather than an "invention" can be read as a projection, in the national academic field, of theoretical tensions that had crossed the Anglophone North American anthropologies in the late '90s of the last century. Having very quickly presented those international scenarios, I point out how in them (and partly in the national scene itself) many of the theoretical issues that emerged in those years then led to a radical reconfiguration of current and basic notions, research practices and styles of ethnographic representation; and therefore it is proposed that the discussion, even polemical, should be able to be declined on the level of concrete outcomes of research. Finally, I speculate, just as quickly, on the asynchronisms and arrhythmias between trends operating in the North American and domestic academic-scientific fields, and their possible political implications
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spelling doaj.art-2e40a6e9894c4ff6b18694810a9615f32022-12-21T17:59:58ZitaDipartimento Culture e Società - Università di PalermoArchivio Antropologico Mediterraneo2038-32152021-06-01242310.4000/aam.3818“Fata Morgana”: ancora su strabismi e asincronieBerardino PalumboThis paper deals with some of the theoretical issues raised, during the last years, by some Fabio Dei's contributions and the debates they have produced. In particular, I argue that the "critical anthropology" identified in those interventions as a polemical objective, rather than an "invention" can be read as a projection, in the national academic field, of theoretical tensions that had crossed the Anglophone North American anthropologies in the late '90s of the last century. Having very quickly presented those international scenarios, I point out how in them (and partly in the national scene itself) many of the theoretical issues that emerged in those years then led to a radical reconfiguration of current and basic notions, research practices and styles of ethnographic representation; and therefore it is proposed that the discussion, even polemical, should be able to be declined on the level of concrete outcomes of research. Finally, I speculate, just as quickly, on the asynchronisms and arrhythmias between trends operating in the North American and domestic academic-scientific fields, and their possible political implicationshttp://journals.openedition.org/aam/3818critical anthropologyethnographyhistory of anthropologyacademic fieldFabio Dei
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“Fata Morgana”: ancora su strabismi e asincronie
Archivio Antropologico Mediterraneo
critical anthropology
ethnography
history of anthropology
academic field
Fabio Dei
title “Fata Morgana”: ancora su strabismi e asincronie
title_full “Fata Morgana”: ancora su strabismi e asincronie
title_fullStr “Fata Morgana”: ancora su strabismi e asincronie
title_full_unstemmed “Fata Morgana”: ancora su strabismi e asincronie
title_short “Fata Morgana”: ancora su strabismi e asincronie
title_sort fata morgana ancora su strabismi e asincronie
topic critical anthropology
ethnography
history of anthropology
academic field
Fabio Dei
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