EtnoAntropologia

Le informalità in/visibili. L’abitare di una famiglia sinta italiana, tra etnografia e ricerca d’archivio - The in/visible informalities. The housing of an Italian Sinti family, between ethnography and archival research

2026-07-15T08:02:59+00:00

The article traces the housing history of a Sinti family from South Tyrol, shaped by institutional informal practices shifting from accomodating and inclusive measures to elusive-authoritarian modes. Informality is here decoupled from a marginal definition and reinterpreted as a fluid, relational, and discretionary modality inherent to state action itself, being used as a “sensitizing concept” to deconstruct and comprehend the governance of Sinti housing within the territory.

«Un enorme cantiere in espansione». Riflessioni etnografiche sul turismo a margine di un’esperienza formativa in Marocco - «A Country Under Construction»: Ethnographic reflections on tourism following a training experience in Morocco

2026-07-15T08:11:05+00:00

This article examines the social and cultural implications of tourism development in contemporary Morocco through short ethnographic observations conducted in the imperial city of Meknès. In recent years, Morocco has increasingly invested in tourism as a strategic tool for economic growth and international visibility, particularly in connection with the organization of major international events and the broader strategy of promoting Morocco as a global tourist destination. Focusing on a city that remains relatively peripheral to Morocco’s main tourist circuits, the article explores how tourism imaginaries are locally interpreted and anticipated. Encounters with artisans, hospitality workers, and cultural heritage professionals reveal how practices of hospitality, staged craft performances, and narratives of authenticity sustain the promise of tourism even in contexts where tourist flows remain limited. Particular attention is devoted to the gendered dimensions of tourism-related work: through the experiences of women working in hospitality and cultural management, the article shows how tourism can simultaneously reproduce expectations associated with feminine care and open new spaces of visibility and professional agency. By combining reflections on tourism development with grounded ethnographic insights, the article highlights how global aspirations for tourism are negotiated within the everyday practices of those living and working in emerging tourist landscapes.

Il clima politico. Corpi, frontiere e migrazione ai tempi del riscaldamento globale - The Political Climate. Bodies, Borders, and Migration in the Age of Global Warming

2026-07-14T14:51:22+00:00

The four articles included in this dossier, the result of the “CliBor – The Climate of Borders” project, explore certain intersections between contemporary environmental crises – in particular climate change –, the migration dynamics associated with them, current forms of border management, and the bodily phenomena that result from them. Moving between, on the one hand, a critical exploration of the notion of “climate migration” and an examination of the concepts of adaptation, mitigation, and vulnerability, and, on the other, two ethnographic contributions – one on the convergence of forensic dimensions and environmental instrumentalization in the central Mediterranean, the other on the bodily dimensions of Venezuelan migration to the United States – these articles collectively attempt to outline the possibility of an environmental ethnography of the body at the border.

La migrazione climatica: analisi di un concetto conteso - Climate migration: Analysis of a disputed concept

2026-07-14T15:00:00+00:00

This paper critically examines the category of «climate migration» through the reconstruction of the formation of the climate change–human mobility nexus. The article discusses how the category conceptually evolved from an empirically framed phenomenon into a hegemonic discursive relation shaped by racializing, biopolitical, and neoliberal logics. Recent decolonial contributions further destabilize the empirical coherence of the nexus by tactically re-signifying its language of mobility, reconnecting climate change and vulnerabilities to the structures underpinning the racial, patriarchal and ecocidal capitalistic economy born within Colonialism. The paper ultimately argues that climate migration as a distinct analytical and policy category continues to reproduce ethnocentric and technocratic rationales. Its critical potential lies instead in its conceptual collapse, opening the discursive field to alternative imaginaries of social justice and socioecological interdependency.

Vulnerabilità corporee, vulnerabilità climatiche: una rassegna - Bodily Vulnerabilities, Climatic Vulnerabilities: an Overview

2026-07-15T06:57:08+00:00

The urgency and severity of climate change impacts compel us to conduct a more in-depth analysis about the extent of this phenomenon on everyday life. Through an inter- and transdisciplinary approach, with a focus on the fields of medical and political anthropology, we aim to highlight the issues of political and social justice that lie behind a technocratic view of climate change. The effects of the climate crisis on health will be investigated through the analysis of ethnographic researches, highlighting how these effects are unevenly distributed and embodied. In this paper, we will address issues regarding adaptation, mitigation, health and body in the climate change debate. Where do the boundaries between adaptation and coping mechanisms lie, and how is the body situated within these processes? We propose to revisit the notion of vulnerability as a bridging, multiscale concept, through which bodily experiences, social inequalities, and political-environmental processes can be jointly analyzed. An anthropological perspective will be needed, capable of linking the global scale and lived experience, in order to develop contextualized, equitable, and transformative climate and health policies.

Leggere un’onda: la migrazione nel Mediterraneo tra deterrenza, ambiente e oblio - Reading a Wave: Migration in the Mediterranean between Deterrence, Environment, and Oblivion

2026-07-15T07:10:23+00:00

Recent attention to climate change has highlighted its role in worsening living conditions and affecting migration toward Europe. At the same time, environmental and atmospheric conditions also obstruct these journeys, particularly where states exploit space as a deterrent, as in the Darién Gap, the Sonoran Desert, and the Mediterranean Sea. The latter has become both a crime scene and an archive of disappearances and shipwreck deaths. This text explores the relationship between migration, environment, and border violence through forensic science, asking how the sea shapes death, leaves traces on bodies, affects identification, and resists complete subordination to border control policies.

«Y la gente tenía que obligatoriamente salir». Salute e migrazione venezuelana verso gli Stati Uniti - «Y la gente tenía que obligatoriamente salir». Health and Venezuelan migration to the United States

2026-07-15T07:24:03+00:00

The article draws on my ethnographic research conducted in Albuquerque (NM, USA) between September 2024 and March 2025 with Venezuelan asylum seekers residing in New Mexico. The analysis approaches migration as a multilevel social determinant of health, highlighting how it increases migrants’ exposure to health risks while simultaneously limiting access to healthcare services. I first situate Venezuelan migration within its broader context by examining the multiple, often intersecting factors that drive individuals to leave their country. I then explore the migratory journey of Venezuelan asylum seekers in Central America and Mexico, illustrating how dangers and risks are not isolated events but recurring and cumulative experiences along the trajectory to the United States, generating forms of suffering that significantly impact migrants’ wellbeing and health.

Tossicità e cura nel paesaggio agricolo: l’economia morale delle Terre dell’Ebro - Toxicity and Care in an Agricultural Landscape: The Moral Economy of the Ebro Region

2026-07-15T07:34:09+00:00

This article examines pesticide use in the Terres de l’Ebre (Catalonia) as a moral field where farmers negotiate uncertainty, responsibility, and agricultural survival. EU ecological transition policies, especially Farm to Fork, add new pressures to a landscape shaped by toxicity, climate instability, and volatile markets. Based on ethnographic research, the study shows that agronomic decisions are moral judgments balancing efficacy, prudence, justice, and care. It proposes the concept of a “moral economy of pesticides” to explain how substances, regulations, and practices shape rural endurance.

Capoeira Angola: dialoghi tra ricercatori e praticanti - Capoeira Angola: Dialogues Between Researchers and Practitioners

2026-07-15T07:52:45+00:00

This article traces the methodological and theoretical evolution of ethnographic studies on capoeira angola in Brazil, examining the dialogue between masters and researchers from the end of the 19th century to the present. Moving from early accounts shaped by racist theories to the contributions of scholars such as Manuel Querino and Edison Carneiro, and through the phenomenology of the body and postcolonial studies, it shows how capoeira angola has become a site for rethinking Afro-Brazilian epistemology: a somatic and performative language, a tool for cultural resistance, education and identity.

Editoriale n. 1 - 2026

2026-07-14T14:34:33+00:00

Antropologia e Mediterraneo

2026-07-15T08:20:04+00:00