Valentina Gamberi

Monographs

Gamberi, Valentina (2021). Experiencing Materiality: Museum Perspectives, New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books.

Edited Books

Brigati, Roberto and Valentina Gamberi (Eds.) (2019). Metamorfosi. La svolta ontologica in antropologia [Metamorphosis. The Ontological Turn in Anthropology]. Macerata: Quodlibet.

Book Chapters

1. Gamberi, Valentina (2021). “Dall’ontologia alla pratica: per una critica alla svolta ontologica [From Ontology to Practice: For a Critique of the Ontological Turn]”. In Dei, Fabio and Luigigiovanni Quarta (a cura di). Ontologie locali/mondi multipli [Local Ontologies/Multiple Worlds], pp. 301-330. Roma: Meltemi.
2. Gamberi, Valentina (2019). “Metamorfosi: decolonizzazione vera o apparente? [Metamorphosis: Real or Disguised Decolonisation?]” In Brigati, Roberto and Valentina Gamberi (Eds.). Metamorfosi. La svolta ontologica in antropologia. Macerata: Quodlibet.

Peer-reviewed journal articles

1. Gamberi, Valentina (2019), "Decolonising the Museum: An Eco-Phenomenological Account of South-Asian Artefacts ", The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. 29, n. 2, pp. 201-218, DOI: 10.1017/S135618631800069X

2. Gamberi, Valentina (2018). “Tra ontologia ed epistemologia: il disegno come comprensione e costruzione del mondo a Flums (Svizzera) [Between Ontology and Epistemology: Drawing as Understanding and Worlding at Flums (Switzerland)]”. LARES, Anno LXXXIV, n. 1, pp. 27-59.

3. Gamberi, Valentina (2017). "Incarnations: the Materiality of the Religious Gazes in Hindu and Byzantine Icons", Material Religion, vol. 13, n. 2, pp. 206-230, DOI: 10.1080/17432200.2017.1291168

4. Gamberi, Valentina (2014). "Escaping from Rama: Portraits of Indian Women", Culture and Religion, vol. 15, n. 3, pp. 354-372, DOI: 10.1080/14755610.2014.945469

Co-edited Book Chapters

Gamberi, Valentina and Shu-Li Wang, "Religion on Display: Case Studies of the Museum of World Religions and the Exhibitive Spaces in Temples in Taiwan" In press for: Cai, Yunci (Ed.) The Museum in Asia, London: Routledge [ratio: 70%].

Co-edited Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

1. Wang, Shu-Li and Valentina Gamberi, "The Museum Is a Temple: The Fo Guang Shan Buddha Museum in Taiwan", In press for: Asian Anthropology [ratio: 30%]
2. Gamberi, Valentina e Lucia Zaietta (2018), "An Anthropomorphic dilemma: a phenomenological insight into the human/nonhuman symbiosis", Environmental Philosophy, vol. 15, n. 2, pp. 275-294, DOI: 10.5840/envirophil201882077 [https://philpapers.org/go.pl?id=GAMAAD-3&proxyId&u=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.5840%2Fenvirophil201882077] [ratio: 60%]

Conference Proceedings

Gamberi, Valentina (2013). " Bringing Museums Home. Anthropology as Apprenticeship", Lira, S., Amoêda, R. and Pinheiro, C. (a cura di), Sharing Cultures – Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Intangible. Barcelos: Green Lines Institute for Sustainable Development., PAPERID-000000, pp. 531-538.

Translations

1. Viveiros de Castro, Eduardo (2019). Prospettivismo cosmologico in Amazzonia e altrove [Cosmological Perspectivism in Amazonia and Elsewhere, Four Lectures given in the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge, February–March 1998, HAU Books, 2012]. It. ed. by Roberto Brigati, It. tran. Valentina Gamberi. Macerata: Quodlibet.
2. Kohn, Eduardo (2019). “Come sognano i cani : le nature amazzoniche e la politica dell’interazione tra specie [tit. or. How Dogs Dream: Amazonian Natures and the Politics of Transspecies Engagement”, American Ethnologist, 34, 1, 2007]. In Brigati, Roberto and Valentina Gamberi (Eds.) Metamorfosi. La svolta ontologica in antropologia, It. tran. Valentina Gamberi. Macerata: Quodlibet.
3. Holbraad, Martin (2019). “Il potere della polvere. Molteplicità e movimento nella cosmologia divinatrice dell’ifá cubano (o, di nuovo, mana)” [or. title The Power of Powder. Multiplicity and Motion in the Divinatory Cosmology of Cuban Ifa (or mana, again), In Amiria Henare, Martin Holbraad, Sari Wastell (eds.), Thinking Through Things. Theorising Artefacts Ethnographically, Routledge, New York 2007] In Brigati, Roberto and Valentina Gamberi (Eds.) (2019). Metamorfosi. La svolta ontologica in antropologia, It. tran. Valentina Gamberi. Macerata: Quodlibet.

Other Publications

1. Gamberi, Valentina (2020) [blog post]. “L’isola che non c’è. La geopolitica della pandemia vista da Taiwan [The Non-Existing Island. The Geopolitcs of Covid Pandemics Seen from Taiwan]” ANPIA (Associazione Nazionale Professionale Italiana Antropologi) blog [Accessed on the 25th August 2020: http://anpia.it/lisola-che-non-ce-pandemia-vista-da-taiwan/ ].
2. Gamberi, Valentina (2015). “Antispecismo attraverso i kami: rilettura del non-umano in Hayao Miyazaki [Antispeciesism through the Kami: A Non-Human Reading of Hayao Miyazaki]." Animal Studies. Rivista Italiana di Antispecismo, 11: 41-55.
3. Gamberi, Valentina (2012). “Scrigni riaperti. Sbrogliare la matassa del Museo Ladino [Reopening Caskets. Unraveling the Skein of the Ladin Museum]”. Mondo Ladino, 36: 17- 58.
4. Gamberi, Valentina (2009). “Sapere tra le dita. La cultura materiale degli scultori di Faceres in Val di Fassa [Knowing Through the Hands. The Material Culture of the Wood Sculptors of Faceres in the Fassa Valley]”. Mondo Ladino, 33: 151-216.

*Book and documentary reviews on request (published in South Asia Research and Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia from 2013 and 2017)