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Aurora Donzelli

Associate Professor

Department of History and Cultures

Academic discipline: M-DEA/01 Demology, Ethnology and Anthropology

Teaching

Dissertation topics suggested by the teacher.

  • The role of the interpreter within the history of anthropology
  • On the other side of sleep: toward an anthropology the night and of insomnia (see https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/653691)
  • The Magic of Conversational Automata: ChatGBT and other digital enchantments (see https://www.anthropology-news.org/articles/the-magic-of-conversational-automata/)
  • Techno-failures and communicative capitalisms
  • Capitalism's magic (see https://www.anthropology-news.org/articles/capitalisms-magic-act/?utm_source=MarketingCloud&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2023-09-4+AN+Email&utm_content=https%3a%2f%2fwww.anthropology-news.org%2farticles%2fcapitalisms-magic-act%2f)
  • Fieldwork Confessionals: reflections on intimacy, collaboration and representation in anthropological fieldwork practice  (see the recent special issue of American Anthropologist: https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1111/(ISSN)1548-1433.fieldwork-confessionals)
  • Corporate Wokeness: how companies support progressive causes in order to maintain their influence in society (https://www.heritage.org/progressivism/heritage-explains/woke-corporate-capitalism)
  • Ethics and etiquette (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/new-books-in-southeast-asian-studies/id425214664)
  • Political correctness: towards a global ethos? (see https://www.mdpi.com/journal/philosophies/special_issues/global_ethos?view=default&listby=date)
  • For an anthropology of practice: comparing the work by Norbert Elias and Pierre Bourdieu
  • Translating worlds: Anthropology as cross-cultural and cross-linguistic description
  • Monolingual Nationalism and Polyglot nations
  • The linguistic market in Ferruccio Rossi-Landi and Pierre Bourdieu
  • Post-Truth and the Semiotics of Infographics
  • The anthropology of drinking: I drink spritz ergo sum
  • Philippe Bourgois vs. Alice Goffman
  • Anthropology of kissing: Is romantic kissing a cultural universal? (see https://www.sapiens.org/culture/is-romantic-kissing-a-human-universal/)
  • Decolonizing the anthropological canon? A contemporary debate on the transmission of anthropological knowledge 
  • Decolonizing the museum: colonialism and repatriation of museum objects
  • Post-Truth, police brutality, and techno-optimism