Beyond Ethnographic Writing: Authors' Biographies and Contacts
Massimo Canevacci Ribeiro- email: maxx.canevacci@gmail.com
Is
a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Rome, Italy, and a
Visiting Professor at the University of Florianapolis, Brazil. His books
include Linea di Polvere (2007), Una stupita fatticità (2007),
Culture Extreme (2000), La città polifonica (1993) and Antropologia
della Comunicazione Visuale (2001).
Ana Maria Forero Angel - email: amforeroangel@gmail.com
Was
born in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1975 and is an anthropologist and
philosopher. She is currently a visiting scholar at the Centre of
Latino-American Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK. She has
degrees in philosophy, during which time she focused on Gadamer and
Wittgenstein, as well as anthropology, where her dissertation
research explored the concepts of self-representation and staging in
the Historical Museum of Police in Bogota, both from Los Andes
University. In 2008, she concluded her PhD. in Ricerca in Teoria e
Ricerca Sociale in the Department of Sociology and Communication at
the University La Sapienza of Rome, Italy. Her doctoral dissertation
was about national army elites constructing their own identity. She
is currently continuing her research on political violence and the
ways in which the elites of the armed Colombian forces have depicted
and chosen to remember and represent themselves, used to create their
own traditions.
Tarek Elhaik - email: elhaiktarek@yahoo.com
Is both a film curator
and an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Rice University. His
work is a diagnostic approach to the after-life of visual cultures in
so-called peripheral modernisms, in Latin America and the Middle East
specifically. He is interested in current articulations between
peripheral anthropological traditions, the historical avant-gardes
and contemporary art. He situates his conceptual and
ethnographic intervention at the frontier of anthropology, curatorial
practice and contemporary media arts. He is currently working on a
manuscript titled Installing Cosmopolitan Modernism: Second-Order
Observations After Mexico City where he builds on both his two-year
field research in Mexico City and previous work as a film/video
curator of Middle Eastern & North African experimental cinemas.
The book examines interventions by several experimental filmmakers,
curators and installation artists from Mexico, Lebanon and Morocco.
His work ultimately seeks to mine the conceptual framework of
hybridity and meztijaje that has traditionally shaped approaches to
visual/sensory cultures in the Middle East and Latin America, the
rapport between experimental ethnography and the historical
avant-garde, and the affinities between Latin American studies and
post-colonial theory. His curatorial activity includes
experimental film series for Pacific Film Archive, Ruhr Trienale, San
Francisco Cinematheque and the Cinematheque de Tanger, among
others.
Giulia Grechi- email: grechigiulia@gmail.com
Born in 1980, near Rome, is an
anthropologist of visual communication. Graduated in 2004 in
Communication Sciences at La Sapienza University in Rome, Italy. Her
thesis in Cultural Anthropology dealt with post-colonial literature
and theories. In 2009, she completed her doctoral studies in Social
Theory and Research with a study on the body’s representation in
the works of the Afro-American artists Lorna Simpson and Kara Walker,
focusing on colonial representation, the concept of embodiment and
emotions as field of knowledge’s production. Her theoretical and
research interests are cultural studies, visual and post-colonial
studies with specific focus on the relation between anthropology and
contemporary art. Collaborating with Professor Massimo Canevacci
since 2004 at La Sapienza University, she now teaches courses on
Visual Anthropology and Contemporary Art at the European Institute
for Design in Rome, Italy (IED) and is the assistant coordinator of
and lecturer for the IED Master’s Program in “Museum and Events
Curator - Contemporary Arts and Performing Arts”, directed by
Professor Viviana Gravano.
George E. Marcus
Is
the Chancellor’s Professor of Anthropology at the University of
California, Irvine. He has conducted ethnographic studies of elites
and elite cultures in a variety of settings: kings and nobles in
modern Tonga of the South Pacific; contemporary political and
business dynasties in the United States, Europe and Latin America;
art collectors; Portuguese aristocrats; and, most recently,
negotiators within the World Trade Organization. Since the mid-1990s,
he has been working with the idea of “multi-sited ethnography,”
which involves direct and long-term contact and inquiry amid both
cultures of experts and elites and those of ordinary people in
everyday life. Through his founding of a Center for Ethnography at
UCI, he has conducted collaborative experiments with the classic form
of anthropology’s distinctive method of inquiry and its teaching to
meet the challenge of new topics and contexts of research. His books
include Ethnography through Thick and Thin; Ocasião: The Marquis and
the Anthropologist, A Collaboration (with Fernando Mascarenhas); and
Anthropology as Cultural Critique: An Experimental Moment in the
Human Sciences (with Michael M. J. Fischer), co-editor with Jim
Clifford of the acclaimed and watershed volume Writing Culture: The
Poetics & Politics of Ethnography, and Designs for An
Anthropology of the Contemporary (with Paul Rabinow), among others,
and was the inaugural editor of the journal Cultural
Anthropology.
Fiamma Montezemolo - email: fiammamontezemolo@gmail.com
Born in 1971, in
Rome, is both an anthropologist and artist. As a an established
scholar in border and urban studies, she has patiently designed
rigorous and long-term ethnographic-artistic interventions at the
Tijuana- San Diego border where she has also resided and taught for
many years. As an artist she situates her work as a critical
extension of the ethnographic turn in contemporary art during the
1990s. In addition to ethnography, a research method she also
considers an emerging medium for post-art practices, she works with
various media, including performance, video, digital photography,
archival material and web-based images. Her art practice straddles
various disciplines, sensibilities and methodologies, including
institutional critique, public art, social art, relational
aesthetics, indigenous media, visual anthropology, performance. She
recently contributed a conceptual map of Tijuana for the 2005 edition
of the bi-national, public art event InSite05, co-authored, with
architect Rene’ Peralta and writer/philosopher Heriberto Yepez, the
internationally acclaimed book Here is Tijuana (Black Dog Publishing,
London, 2006), has performed in Teatro Vascello in Rome in the
antropofagic multi-media performance ‘Opera Malinowski’, has
co-directed a video on the Zapatista up-rising, winner of the Visual
Anthropology Award in Italy, and has collaborated with various
indigenousmedia practitioners in Brazil and Mexico, from the Xavantes
community (including Domingos Mahoro’e’o, Caimi, Arquimedes),
Vincent Carelli to Carlos Martinez in Chiapas. She is now in the
process of reformulating as an installation and institutional
critique her past collaborative curatorial project and intervention
at the Pigorini Ethnographic Museum in Rome in 1999. She is the
author of two ethnographies: Faceless, Ethnicity and Gender in the
Zapatist Movement and My history not yours! Chicanos/as Identity:
between representation and self-representation. She has numerous
national and international publications with Aztlán: Journal of
Chicano Studies (UCLA, USA), Third Text (UK), Revista de Antropología
Social (Madrid University), La Ventana, Guadalajara University,
Letras Libres (Mexico), Avatar, Journal of Anthropology and
Communication, Meltemi (Italy). She held several academic
appointments: Visiting Scholar at the UCLA Chicano Studies Research
Center (2008-2009), Associate Professor of Anthropology in the
Department of Cultural Studies at the Colegio de la Frontera Norte,
Mexico, (2003-2008), Visiting Professor of Urban Anthropology in
Woodbury University San Diego (2004-6), and Visiting Scholar Stanford
University (2002).
Luca Pandolfi - email: luca.pandolfi@tiscali.it
Is associate
professor of Cultural Anthropology at the Pontifical Urbaniana
University of Rome. In the same university he teaches Sociology of
Religion, Intercultural Communication and he directs the Master in
Social Communication in Intercultural Context. Visiting professor of
Cultural Anthropology at Salesian Pontifical University of Rome and
at Pontifical Faculty of Sciences of Education "Auxilium",
he led seminars of Cultural Anthropology in the University of Rome
"La Sapienza". Research fellow in Italy and in Latin
America he is trainer and tutor of educators and social workers. He
wrote the essay L’interpretazione dell’altro. Per un’antropologia
visuale dialogica, Aracne Ed., Roma 2005 and various articles,
Antonella Passani - email: antonellapassani@gmail.com
Is a
social science researcher with a background in cultural anthropology,
she combines cultural studies, visual anthropology and postcolonial
theory. She started her research activity in Thailand focusing her
research on the impact of globalization on the way of life in
Bangkok. During her PhD she investigated the relationship between
visual communication, the representation of diversity, and
intercultural communication. Using self-representation as her primary
research method, she has carried out action-research projects working
with migrant and second-generation teenagers. As a teaching assistant
at La Sapienza University in Rome, Italy in the Faculty of
Communication Science under –Professor Massimo Canevacci, she
carries out research and teaching activities. For the private sector,
she is currently involved in several European projects in which she
is analysing the use of new technologies in the field of open
knowledge generation and flow and local innovation.
Luca
Simeone - email: me@luca.simeone.name - website: www.luca.simeone.name
Is a Design Anthropologist and a contemporary entrepreneur. He
leads projects in which solutions are designed through ethnographic
research methods. His past experiences include the production of
award-winning websites and cross-medial interaction design projects
for clients ranging from international brands to museums and
institutions. Luca has an extensive academic history featuring
participation in scientific and commercial publications and teaching
and R&D experience at several universities in Rome, Naples and
Milan, Italy and New Delhi, India, on the subjects of Cultural
Anthropology, Interaction Design, Innovation, Psychology of emotions
and Experience Design.
Andrea
Vieira Zanella
- email: azanella@cfh.ufsc.br
Is a Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Santa
Catarina, Brasil. Her main research areas and teaching activities are
related to social psychology, art psychology and methodology of
social research. The focus of her investigations is the process of
aesthetic relations connected with creative activities and identity.
The extensive list of her publications is at www.cnpq.br and many
articles can be accessed at www.bvs-psi.org.br |
