Papers by Simone Ghiaroni
The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology
Studi E Materiali Di Storia Delle Religioni, 2005
in Sulla traduzione. Itinerari fra lingue, letterature e culture, a cura di Giuliano Rossi e Giuseppe Sofo, Chieti, Solfanelli, 2015, pp. 115-127., 2015
Quella che vorrei proporre è una breve esplorazione dei margini del concetto di traduzione in ant... more Quella che vorrei proporre è una breve esplorazione dei margini del concetto di traduzione in antropologia e di come l'uso metaforico di questo concetto sia stato usato per la definizione della disciplina, passando poi a una critica di quegli usi che spero possa risuonare nel lettore rispetto alle sue esperienze di traduzione o di riflessione su questo tema.
in Il treno e le sue rappresentazioni tra XIX e XXI secolo. Atti del convegno multidisciplinare, a cura di Giovanni Dotoli, Mario Selvaggio, Claudia Canu Fautré, Feb 2015
e Linguistica -Pubblicazione realizzata con il contributo CAR ex-60%.
Intrecci. Quaderni di antropologia culturale, Dec 11, 2013
Drawing is one of the most popular recreational activities among children’s peer groups. The draw... more Drawing is one of the most popular recreational activities among children’s peer groups. The drawing child is not only building a representation that ‘stands for’ something of the outside world, he is projecting in the image a sign that refers to his personal identity. Each line inscribed on the sheet contains an indexical reference to the child who has traced it. In fact, the result of a drawing session is primarily a ‘thing’ that refers to its manufacturer and, as it, can be used to mediate social relationships. This image-object has its own ‘social life’ which deserves observation. Following the ‘cultural biography’ of the drawings you will discover that they have a later life in circuits of exchanges among the children. Drawing on ten months of field research in an infant school (3-5 years old), this article will investigate several ethnographic cases coming to outline different ‘gift strategies’ that underlie the use of drawings to fulfill social inclusion and exclusion in peer groups and to establish, reproduct and manifest social relations.
Quaderni del Ramo d'oro online, 2009
This paper sketches the outlines of the history of the African pre-colonial state of Gonja (North... more This paper sketches the outlines of the history of the African pre-colonial state of Gonja (Northern Ghana) in order to emphasize the importance of cultural structure in the construction of historical discourse. Typically seen as a device of legitimation and reproduction of the social order in so-called oral societies, oral tradition is here characterized by mythological leaders, dynasties and battles which form the ideological base of the social structure. In this paper, these mythological constructions are challenged and de-constructed, in an attempt to avoid ethnocentrism and give a 'thick' interpretation of how the Gonja oral tradition both reports the past and shapes social structure. As a conclusion, the ideological and social structure of the Gonja is compared to other 'black trifunctionalisms', exposing weaknesses in Georges Dumézil's theory of 'indoeuropean trifunctionalism'.
Achab. Rivista di antropologia, 2007
The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2007
Studi e materiali di storia delle religioni, 2005
Valerio Valeri (1944-1998) was Professor of Anthropology in the University of Chicago. Trained a... more Valerio Valeri (1944-1998) was Professor of Anthropology in the University of Chicago. Trained as a philosopher in the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, he decided to pursue research in anthropology, first in France, where he was a student of Claude Lévi-Strauss and Louis Dumont, and then in the U.S.A., where he studied and then worked with Marshall Sahlins. Valeri was mainly interested in Polynesian and Indonesian ethnology, and dealt especially with topics such as kinship, taboo, sacrifice, and kingship. The core of his anthropology was the research of the inner relationship between the self, the subject, and the social sphere. According to Valeri, the method, that offered the possibility to construct the “social self” and to overcome the problem of the contrast between the individual and the group was a strictly Hegelian dialectical process in which the synthesis of the self and the other (i.e. other men, nature, gods – as in sacrifice) ended in the consciousness of the subject of his own being in the world. Within this concept Valeri interpreted the sacrificial process in the context of his outstanding Hawaiian and Indonesian ethnography.
Topicality and Popularisation by Simone Ghiaroni
Cenerentola. Mensile libertario, Sep 2010
Afro. Dall'Africa, per l'Africa, 2008
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