Description

Seventeen African encounters from an anthropological perspective. Portraits not of black people, but of white people, because there is nothing stranger than a
strange person in a strange place. Places, situations and interactions that lie somewhere between magical realism and ethnographic surrealism. An anthropological perspective that is always attentive to what is human, even – and especially – where it is presumed to be lost.

Cesare Poppi was born in Bologna in 1953. He graduated from the Alma Mater in 1978 with a degree in Philosophy/Cultural Anthropology under Bernardo Bernardi. He obtained a Master’s degree and PhD in Social Anthropology at Cambridge (UK) in 1983 with Sir Jack Goody. He has been conducting research among the Ladins of Fassa since 1974 and, since 1984, on the secret societies of masks in northern Ghana. He has taught all over the world.
CV and bibliography at www.academia.edu

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