Privatdozent
Institut f. Ethnologie
Universitaet Hamburg
Rothenbaumchaussee 67/69
20148 Hamburg
GERMANY

Publications

Books

Contemporary Art and Anthropology, (co-edited with Chris Wright), Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2006

• Futures Lost: Nostalgia and Identity among Italian Immigrants in Argentina Berne/New York: Peter Lang European Academic Publishers, 2000.
• Mafia for Beginners (with the illustrator Oscar Zarate) Cambridge: Icon Books, 1994.
• Emigration und Rückwanderung von "Gastarbeitern" in einem sizilianischen Dorf (Migration and Return Migration of ´Guest Workers´ in a Sicilian Village) Frankfurt/Berne/New York: Peter Lang Verlag, 1990, 167pp.
• co-authored book: Monica Quijada, Carmen Bernand, Arnd Schneider. Homogeneidad y Nación. Con un estudio de caso: Argentina, siglos XIX y XX. (Homogeneity and Nation. With a case study: Argentina, 19th and 20th centuries) Madrid: Colección Tierra Nueva e Cielo Nuevo, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2000.
• "Editorial" ("Europe and Latin America") (special issue), Anthropological Journal on European Cultures, 7 (2), 1998.

Articles

"Rooting Hybridity: Globalisation and the challenges of mestizaje and crisol de razas for contemporary artists in Ecuador and Argentina", Indiana , 21, 2004, 95 -112.

"Fashioning Indians or Beautiful Savages: The Case of Gaby Herbstein's Huellas 2000", Ethnoscripts, 5 (2), 2003, 2 -33

"FIELDWORKS: Dialogues between Art and Anthropology (Tate Modern, 26 - 28 Spetember 2003): A brief report on its making", Research Bulletin (University of East London), November 2003, p.2.

• "On ´appropriation´: a critical reappraisal of the concept and its application in global art practices"
  Social Anthropology, 11, (2) 2003, 75 - 89.
• "Organizing Ethnicity: Three Episodes in the Politics of Italian Associations in Argentina, 1947-1989"
  Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 25 (50), 2000, 195-228;.
• "Globalization, the media, and the rise to power of the extreme right in Austria: some observations from Argentina"
  European Studies (University of East London), 2 (1), March 2000, p.4.
• "Appropriation, Contemporary Arts and Globalisation: Some Issues for Future Research"
  Ethnoscripts, 1 (1), 1999,81-84.
• Italian translation: "Appropriazione, Arte contemporanea e globalizzazione: alcune proposte per la ricerca futura"
  Avatar, 1,2001, 137 - 140. [ISBN 88-8553-083-7]
• French edition as: "Appropriation, Contacts between Cultures,and Globalisation"
  Les Cahiers ALHIM (Amérique Latine Histoire e Memoire), 1, 2000, 213 - 217. [ISBN 2-914297-00-9]
• "Editorial Note", Anthropological Journal on European Cultures, 7 (2), 1998, 7-9.[ISSN 0960-0604]
• "Refracted Identities: Argentine Images of Europe"
  Anthropological Journal on European Cultures, 7 (2), 1998, 39-57.
• "L´alterité dans l´Argentine moderne"
  Cahiers Internationaux de Sociologie, CV, 1998, 241-260.
• "Putting an ocean between them: Gender Relations among Italian Immigrant Families in Twentieth-Century Argentina"
  Immigrants & Minorities, 15 (3),1996, 193-213.
• "Uneasy relationships: contemporary artists and anthropology"
  Journal of Material Culture (eds. James Clifford & Daniel Miller), 1 (2), 1996, 183-210.
• "The two faces of modernity: concepts of the melting pot in Argentina"
  Critique of Anthropology, 16 (2), 1996, 173-198.
• "The transcontinental construction of European identities: A view from Argentina"
  Anthropological Journal on European Cultures, 5 (1), 1996, 95-105.
• "Moderne, Urbanität und Masseneinwanderung an der Peripherie: Das BeispielBuenos Aires"
  kea: Zeitschrift fÜr Kulturwissenschaften (Bremen), 8, (1995), 125-148.
• "Inszenierte Mythen: Indigener Spielfilm als Dokument und Fiktion"
  Fernsehen und Ethnologie, ed. Gerd Becker, Hamburg: Mitteilungen des Hamburgischen Museums fÜr Völkerkunde, NF., 23 (1993), 177-180.
• "The art diviners"
  Anthropology Today, 9 (1993), 2, 3-9.
• "Die Wilden greifen zur Kamera ...Plädoyer fÜr ein neues Verhältnis zwischen Fernsehen und Ethnologie" Frankfurter Rundschau, Frankfurt, 20.10.1992.
• "Ethnicity, Changing Paradigms and Variations in Food Consumption among Italians in Buenos Aires"
  Altreitalie (Agnelli Foundation, Turin), Vol. 7, June 1992, 84-95.
• "Presente e passato in un paese del Sud"
  Nuove Effemeridi, Palermo, I (1988), 1, 76-79.
• "Die Mythen der Mafiosi", Interview with Claudio Fava
  Frankfurter Rundschau (nationwide newspaper), 27.5.1986.
• "Warum Italiener auswandern", Interview with the Bishop of Caltanissetta, Mons. Alfredo Garsia, Christ in der Gegenwart (Freiburg), 38 (1986), 13, p.108.
• "Kunst und Ethnologie"
  Ethno-Logik, Münster, May 1981, 25-32.

Contribution to books

"Setting up roots, or the anthropologist on the set: observations on the shooting of a cinema movie in a Mapuche reservation, Argentina", Visualizing Anthropology, eds. Anna Grimshaw & Amanda Ravetz, Bristol: Intellect Books. 2005.

"Acts of Empathy", Impressions (and other Images of Memory), Rimer Cardillo. New Paltz (NY): Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art/SUNY New Paltz, 2004.

"Indias a la moda: el caso de 'Huellas 2000'", Mujeres y Nacionalismo en América Latina, ed. Natividad Gutiérrez, Mexico City: UNAM, 2004.

• "Sites of Amnesia, Non-Sites of Memory: Identity and Other in the work of four Uruguayan artists"
  Siting Ethnography, ed. Alex Coles, London: Blackdog Publications, 2000.
• "Discourses of Ethnic Distinctions in Contemporary Argentina"
  Ideology and Discursive Practices: Spain and Latin America, ed. Francisco Domínguez,Peter Lang: European Academic Publishers, Berne/New York, 2000.
• "La politica de la resistencia y la adaptación: una comparación entre inmigrantes judíos italianos y otros exiliados italianos en Argentina"
  Encuentro y alteridad: Vida y cultura judía en América Latina, Eds. Judit Bokser Liwerant/Alicia Gojman de Backal Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1999.
• "Nationale Ideologien und ethnische Identität bei italienischen Einwanderern in Buenos Aires" (National ideologies and ethnic identity amongst Italian immigrants in Buenos Aires)
  Ethnologie Europas, ed. Waltraud Kokot/Dorle Dracklé, Berlin: Reimer, 1996.
• "Mazzini und Garibaldi: Die Bedeutung politischer Symbole bei Italienern in Buenos Aires" (Mazzini and Garibaldi: the meaning of political symbols amongst Italians in Buenos Aires)
  Festschrift für Prof. Rüdiger Schott, ed. W. Krawietz, Berlin: Duncker und Humblot, 1993.
• "Die eine Hälfte geht für die andere" (One half goes for the other)
  Reisehandbuch Italien, ed. Martin Kroß, Berlin: Express Verlag, 1989.

Contribution to books forthcoming

• "Fashioning Indians or Beautiful Savages: the case of Gaby Herbstein´s Huellas 2000",
  Women and Nationalism in Latin America, ed. Natividad Gutiérrez, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007.

Review articles

• "Tales of Terror and Tango",(review of: Julie Taylor.Paper Tangos, and other recent publications on the Tango)
  . Anthropology Today, 14 (6), 1998, 16-17.
• "Coming to terms with the past, or escaping its presence?"
  (review of: Holger Meding. Flucht vor NÜrnberg? Deutsche und österreichische Auswanderung nach Argentinien 1945-1955, Elena Levin. Historias de una emigración 1933-1939. Alemanes judíos en la Argentina, Alfredo José Schwarcz. A pesar de todo ... los judíos de habla alemana en la Argentina). Ibero-Amerikanisches Archiv (Berlin) , 21 (1/2), 1995, 249-262.

Book reviews

"Eugenia Scarzanella. Ni gringos ni indios: Inmigración, criminalidad y racismo en Argentina. Bernal: Universidad de Quilmes. 2002", Immigrants & Minorities, 22 (1), 2003, 96 - 97.

• "Poor People´s Politics: Peronist Survial Networks and the Legacy of Evita, Javier Ayuero, Durham, NC: Duke University Press", Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol.8, (2), 2002,395 -396.
• Ellen Dissanayake. "How the arts began", Social Anthropology, 2002, 10 (1), 110 -111.
• Eduardo Archetti. "Masculinities: Football, Polo and the Tango in Argentina", Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2000, 6 (2), 329-330.
• Samuel L. Baily. "Immigrants in the Lands of Promise: Italians in Buenos Aires and New York City, 1870-1914", Journal of Latin American Studies, 2000, 556-558.
• Paul Hockings (ed.). "Principles of Visual Anthropology (2cd ed.)", Current Anthropology, 1997, 38 (4). … Alison Brysk. "The Politics of Human Rights in Argentina: Protest, Change, and Democratization" Patterns of Prejudice, 30 (4), 1996, 87-88.
• Diego Gambetta. "The Sicilian Mafia. The Business of Private Protection"
  Critique of Anthropology, 15 (1995), 1, 109-112.
• Margot Scheffolt. "Doppelte Heimat? Zur literarischen Produktion arabischsprachiger Immigranten in Argentinien"
  Estudios migratorios latinoamericanos (Buenos Aires), 9 (26), April 1994, 201-203.
• Christian Giordano. "Die Betrogenen der Geschichte: Überlagerungsrationalität und Überlagerungsmentalität in mediterranen Gesellschaften"
  MAN (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute), 29 (1994), 1, 202-203.
• Christ´l Joris. "Vrouw werden op Sicilie: een culturele levenscyclus" MAN (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute), 27 (1992), 2, 911-912.
• K.H. Ruggiero "And here the world ends: the life of an Argentine village" and L.J.Bartolomé "The colonos of Apóstoles: adaptive strategy and ethnicity in a Polish-Ukrainian settlement in northeast Argentina"
  MAN (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute), 27 (1992), 1, 218-219;.
• "Arrangiarsi: The Italian Immigrant experience in Canada, eds. Roberto Perin/Franc Sturino, Montreal:Guernica Editions, 1989"
  Estudios migratorios latinoamericanos (Buenos Aires), Vol.5, 1989, 418-421.

Book review forthcoming

Conference reviews

• "FIELDWORKS: Dialogues between Art and Anthropology (Tate Modern, 26 -28 September 2003): A brief report on its making", Reserch Bulletin (University of East London), November 2003.
• , review of conference held at Frankfurt/Main, 30 October - 1 November 1997, Anthropology Today , 13 (6), 1997, p.21.
• "Fernsehen und Ethnologie", review of conference held at Hamburg Museum of Anthropology (30.10.-1.11. 1992), Sociologus, 43 (1993), 1, 88-91.
• "VI International Festival of Ethnographical & Anthropological Films", review of ethnographic film festival, Nuoro, Sardinia, 6 - 10 October 1992, CVA review (Commission for Visual Anthropology; Universities Montreal and Aarhus), 1992/2, 21-22.
• "Seconda conferenza sulle collettività etniche", II Jornadas sobre colectividades: Identidad e integración, inserción en el país, relaciones con los paises de origen,Museo Roca, Buenos Aires, 26/27.10.1989,Altreitalie, Turin, Vol.3, 1990, 121-123.
• "Rausch und Realität: Rezension der Ausstellung", (review of exhibition at Museum of Anthropology, Cologne), Museumskunde, Frankfurt, 47/3, 1982, 160-163.
• Visual anthropology (documentary film and photography): Documentary Film "Voyage Argentina", producer of a 15 mins documentary on European immigrants in Buenos Aires, UEL/Cine Ojo, 2002.
• Clips of the video are on the following web-sites: www.nafa.uib.no (Nordic Anthropological Film Association) www.visualanthropology.net
• "Little Italy in Europa: Italiener in London", producer of a short documentary on Italians in London, ZDF (German Television), 1987.
• "Selbst von der Mafia vergessen: Bericht aus einem sizilianischen Bergdorf", (Otto Wilfert), Planquadrat Europa, ZDF, 1987, consulting anthropologist and assistant producer of a 45 mins documentary onthe village of my fieldwork in Sicily.
• Photography (credits and exhibitions): "Gauchos at a rodeo in Las Flores, Buenos Aires, province" Front cover photograph and insert photograph for Rosana Guber´s article, ´Argentine Anthropology, Anthropology Today, 2002,18 (4).
• "No payment of external debt", photograph illustrating Rosana Guber´s article, ´Argentine Anthropology, Anthropology Today, 2002,18 (4).
• "Tango singer and musicians at Italian immigrant restaurant in the Barracas neighbourhood of Buenos Aires" photograph illustrating Rosana Guber´s article, ´Argentine Anthropology, Anthropology Today, 2002,18 (4).
• "Indigenous actor and musician Ruben Patagonia on the set of ´El Camino´" and "Actress Antonella Costa with Mapuche Children on the set of ´El Camino´", publication of two photographs for the conference programme of ´The Future of Ethnographic Film´, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London 14.12.2000.
• Exhibition of photographs of votive shrines in Sutera, Sicily, London School of Economics, Seligman Library, 1988-1990.

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