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Zelda Alice Franceschi

Associate Professor

Department of History and Cultures

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

Curriculum vitae

Zelda Alice Franceschi

Curriculum vitae

1. Personal data

Zelda Alice Franceschi

Born in Bologna 18.05.1972

Italian Social security number: FRNZDL72E58A944X

Orcid PIN:

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6090-4755

2. Current academic position

9.10.2019 Associate Professor at the Department of History, Cultures Civilizations – of the University of Bologna, tenured, having passed the national qualifying examination

From 24.07.2012 research fellow (tenured) Department of History, Cultures Civilizations – of the University of Bologna, tenured, having passed the national qualifying examination

3. National academic qualifying examination

As from 31.03.2017 National qualifying examination for associate professor, sector M-DEA/01 (D.D.222/2012 effective from 31.03.2017 to 31.03.2023).

4. Titles and grants

21.02.2003 PhD in Antropologia della contemporaneità (Anthropology of the contemporary world) at Università Milano Bicocca. Supervisor Professor Matilde Callari Galli. Assessment: excellent.

2003-2004 non salaried Honorary Fellowship assisting the chair of Cultural Anthropology, University of Bologna .

18.07.1997 M.A. in Humanities (Classical Area). Supervisor Professor Adriana Destro. Magna cum laude.

2010 Scholarship (3 months) at UBA (Universidad de Buenos Aires) con il Máster Official Erasmus Mundus en Estudios de las Mujeres y de Género, Gemma.

1999 Scolarship (1 month) at the Department of Anthropology York University (Canada).

1998-1999 Scholarship (10 months) at the Université de Montréal, (Canada).

1998 Scholarship (1 month) at the Institut du Monde Arabe (Parigi).

5. Teaching in Italy

Teaches the following subjects at the University of Bologna, Undergraduate course in Anthropology, Religion and Civilizations, graduate (MA) course in Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, former Faculty of Letters and Philosophy, now School of Arts, Humanities, and Cultural Heritage, University of Bologna.

• 2021-2022

Anthropology of the Americas (BA) 6 UC M-DEA/01

Cultural Anthropology (BA) 6 UC M-DEA/01

History of Anthropology (MA) 6 UC M-DEA/01

Techniques of Ethnographical research (MA) 6 UC M-DEA/01

• 2020-2021

Anthropology of the Americas (BA) 6 UC M-DEA/01

Cultural Anthropology (BA) 6 UC M-DEA/01

History of Anthropology (MA) 6 UC M-DEA/01

Techniques of Ethnographical research (MA) 6 UC M-DEA/01

• 2019-2020

Anthropology of the Americas (BA) 6 UC M-DEA/01

Cultural Anthropology (BA) 6 UC M-DEA/01

History of Anthropology (MA) 6 UC M-DEA/01

• 2018-2019

Anthropology of the Americas (BA) 6 UC M-DEA/01

Cultural Anthropology (BA) 6 UC M-DEA/01

History of Anthropology (MA) 6 UC M-DEA/01

• 2017-2018

Anthropology of the Americas (BA) 6 UC M-DEA/01

History of Anthropology (MA) 6 UC M-DEA/01

• 2016-2017:

Anthropology of the Americas (BA) 6 UC M-DEA/01

History of Anthropology (MA) 6 UC M-DEA/01

• 2015-2016:

Anthropology of the Americas (BA) 6 UC M-DEA/01

Theories and History of Anthropology (MA) 6 UC M-DEA/01

• 2014-2015:

Anthropology of the Americas (BA) 6 UC M-DEA/01

Theories and History of Anthropology (MA) 6 UC M-DEA/01

• 2013-14:

Cultural Anthropology (BA) 6 UC M-DEA/01

History of Anthropology (MA) 6 UC M-DEA/01

Theories and History of Anthropology (MA) 6 UC M-DEA/01

• 2012-2013:

Cultural Anthropology (BA) 6 UC M-DEA/01

History of Anthropology (MA) 6 UC M-DEA/01

Theories and History of Anthropology (MA) 6 UC M-DEA/01

• 2011-2012:

Cultural Anthropology (BA) 6 UC M-DEA/01

History of Anthropology (BA) 6 UC M-DEA/01

Social Anthropology (BA) 6 UC M-DEA/01

Theories and History of Anthropology (MA) 6 UC M-DEA/01

Adjunct professor at Bologna university for the following courses:

• 2010-2011:

Cultural Anthropology (BA) 60 hrs. M-DEA/01

Anthropology and Social Models (MA) 30 hrs. M-DEA/01

Anthropology of writing (BA) 30 hrs. M-DEA/01

• 2009-2010:

Cultural Anthropology (BA) 60 hrs. M-DEA/01

Anthropology of writing (BA) 30 hrs. M-DEA/01

Anthropology and Social Models (MA) 30 hrs. M-DEA/01

• 2008-2009:

Cultural Anthropology (BA) 60 hrs. M-DEA/01

Ethno-linguistics (MA) 30 ore M-DEA/01

• 2007-2008:

Cultural Anthropology (BA) 60 hrs. M-DEA/01

• 2006-2007:

Cultural Anthropology (BA) 60 hrs. M-DEA/01

• 2005-2006:

Cultural Anthropology (BA) 60 hrs. M-DEA/01

Adjunct professor University of Bologna for the seminary:

• 2001-2002:

The instruments of the anthropologist. University of Bologna , Faculty of Teaching Science (16 hrs.)

6. Visiting courses abroad

• 2017 Oxford. School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography. Medical Anthropology Research Seminar (4 hrs).

• 2017 Córdoba (Argentina). Doctoral seminary at the Universidad Nacional. Facultad de Letras y Filosofía y Museo de Antropología (16 hrs).

• 2016 Córdoba (Argentina). Doctoral seminary at the Universidad Nacional. Facultad de Lenguas (16 hrs).

• 2014 Bogotà (Colombia). Doctoral seminary at the Universidad Nacional de Bogotá. Departamenteo de Antropología (16 hrs).

• 2013 Montréal (Canada). Doctoral seminary at the Université de Montreal. Udem, Département d'Anthropologie.

• 2011 Córdoba (Argentina). Doctoral seminary at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Lenguas (8 hrs).

• 2010 Córdoba (Argentina). Doctoral seminary at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Lenguas (16 hrs).

• 2006 Córdoba (Argentina). Seminario alla Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Lenguas (16 hrs).

• 2005 Salta (Argentina). Seminary at the Universidad Nacional. Facultad de Letras y Filosofías (16 hrs.).

• 2004 Buenos Aires and Córdoba (Argentina). Seminary at the Instituto Universitario Nacional del Arte I.U.N.A. (Buenos Aires) and Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Lenguas (4 hrs.).

7. Suplementary activities for students at the University of Bologna

• 2010 and 2011 In charge of study trips to Argentina (Chaco and Salta) for graduate students of the Faculty of Letters. Duration, 6 weeks. On the occasion, seminars at both the university of Bologna and the C.I.A.F.I.C. (Centro de Investigaciones de Antropología Filosófica y Cultural) were organized.

• Supervisor of 157 dissertations (both B.A. and M.A. degrees) from 2003 at the University of Bologna.

• Has taught the course Women and Science from 2011 at the Master Degree in Women's and Gender Studies (University of Granada) and supervised the following dissertations in said course for the universities of Granada and Bologna:

• Mercedes Párraga Vico. Violencia en parejas de jóvenes universitarias: ¿abuso y control en las redes sociales? (2018) Zelda Franceschi and Amalia Morales Villena (University of Granada).

• Julia Pérez Amigo. El Tatuaje en las mujeres: cuerpos y empoderamiento desde una perspectiva feminista. (2017) Zelda Franceschi and Nuria Romo Avilés (University of Granada).

• Lizbeth Ortiz Acevedo. Feminismo y periodismo. Autobiografìa de una periodista de-generada. (2017) Zelda Franceschi and Victoria Robles Sanjuán (University of Granada).

• Carlina Isabel Vera Vázquez. Politizando los cuidados: Un análisis de las prácticas de cuidados de las Integrandes de territorio doméstico. (2016) Zelda Franceschi and Ana Alcázar Campos (University of Granada).

• Lorena Valenzuela Vela. ¿Contruyendo libertades? Una aproximación entnográfica a los proceso de provación de la libertad de las mujeres. (2016) Zelda Franceschi and Ana Alcázar Campos.

• Paula Pérez Sanz. Cuerpo, emociones y ciudades. Repensar el "Derecho a la Ciudad" desde una mirada etnográfica. (2014) Zelda Franceschi and Carmen Gregorio Gil (University of Granada).

• Antonio E. Mateos Rodríguez. Familias homosexuales. Analisis de la asunción y deconstrucción de atribuciones socio-culturales heteropatriarcales asociadas al género, reflexionando desde experiencias de la vida cotidiana reales. (2014) Zelda Franceschi and Pilar Ballarín Domingo (University of Granada).

• Martínez Cobos, Victoria. Maternidad y anticoncepción en la España del primer tercio del siglo XX. La obra de Amparo Poch y de Hildegart. (2014) Zelda Franceschi and Teresa Ortiz Gómez (University of Granada).

• Amanda Sanhueza, Valentina . La Música como performance política: Cuerpos, identidades y significados en la experiencia musical. (2013) Zelda Franceschi and Carmen Gregorio Gil (University of Granada).

• Ariana Sánchez Cota. Ciudadanía feminista y activismo en red. La etnografa como artisita. (2011). Zelda Franceschi and Carmen Gregorio Gil (University of Granada).

• Rania Benzina. Imagen de la Mujer Inmigrante Musulmana en El Principado de Asturias. (2011) Zelda Alice Franceschi and María Socorro Suárez Lafuente (University of Oviedo).

Co advisor of the following PhD Dissertations:

 

Ester Botteri. Vivencias corporales en post parto en la comunidad de Amatlan (Morelos): Historias de vida de mujeres indigenas. Dissertation director Nuria Romo Avilés (University of Granada) and co-advisor Zelda Alice Franceschi (University of Bologna). In progress.

Johanna Levy. Health apps' implications for doctor-patient interactions. Dissertation director Nuria Romo Avilés (University of Granada) and co-advisor Zelda Alice Franceschi (University of Bologna). GRACE: Gender and Cultures of Equality in Europe PhD Programme.

http://graceproject.eu http://graceproject.eu [http://graceproject.eu/]

Assessor, director or member of the commission for the following PhD dissertations:

Caterina Francesca Fidanza. Ciclo XXV. Cultura materiale, arte e artigianato tra wichí del Gran Chaco. The Museo Verde Project. Direcftor of the dissertation: Franceschi Zelda Alice. University of Bologna .

Lavinia Contini. Ciclo XXVII. Nuovi cammini per antichi poteri: il culto delle “Iglesias Unidas” tra i Wichí del Gran Chaco argentino. Un’etnografia. Director of the dissertation: Enrico Comba. University of Turin.

Andrea Freddi. Ciclo XXVI. Al di là del confine ventoso. Migrazione, sviluppo e liderazgo a Todos Santos, Guatemala. Director of the dissertation: Silvietta Giletti Benso University of Turin.

Chiara Scardozzi. Ciclo XX. Lungo il fiume, oltre la frontiera. Narrazioni e rivendicazioni dei territori indigeni contemporanei del Gran Chaco. Director of the dissertation: Alessandro Simonicca University of Rome La Sapienza.

Giacomo Golinelli. Ciclo XXV. Forme di appartenenza. Forme di resistenza. Orizzonti e società nella provincia turca di Îgdir. Director of the dissertation Adriana Destro (University of Bologna ).

Gloria Álvarez Bernardo. Etnografía de las relaciones de parentesco en familias encabezadas por parejas del mismo sexo. Director of the dissertation: Nuria Romo Avilés (University of Grenada). 20.XII.2015

Paloma Paredes Bañuelos. Lo llamamos empoderamiento pero es supervivencia, es explotación Etnografía con mujeres teenek, titulares del Programa de Desarrollo Humano Oportunidades en México. Director of the dissertation: Carmen Gregorio Gil (University of Grenada). 17.XII.2015

8. Research

Director of national and international research projects, eligible for financial backing on the basis of peer reviewed tenders.

• 2007-2008 Chagas neonatale e pediatrico: uno studio epidemiologico, medico e socio-economico. Project financed by the CUIA (Comitato Universitario Italia-Argentina). Together with C.I.A.F.I.C. Centro de Investigaciones Antropologicas Filosoficas y Culturales, Buenos Aires, UBA Universidad de Buenos Aires, Servicio Nacional de Chagas e Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba.

• 2007-2008 Race and evolution.
Within the three year project (2006-2009) Acume2 “Interfacing Sciences, Literature and Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Approach”. with University of Roma3, University of Cardiff (UK) and University of Oxford (UK), UBA Universidad de Buenos Aires, and Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, (Argentina).

• 2007-2009 Part of the research unit of the University of Bologna (directed by Prof. Adriana Destro) within the PRIN “Persone e società: confini, soglie, transizioni. Comparazioni interculturali e interdisciplinari” (coordinated by Professor F. Remotti of the University of Turin).

• 2006-2007 Integrated study of the Chagas disease: medical and socio economic determinations. With C.I.A.F.I.C. Centro de Investigaciones Antropológicas Filosòficas y Culturales, Buenos Aires, UBA Universidad de Buenos Aires, Servicio Nacional de Chagas, Córdoba and Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina).

• 2004-2006 Cultural and Anthropological Memory
Curated the anthropological part of the three year project (2004-2006) Acume1 “Interfacing Sciences, Literature and Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Approach” financed by the CE.

Direction of or participation in activities of research groups entailing collaboration at a national or international level.

PRIN 2020 From Legal Pluralism to the Intercultural State. Personal Law, Exceptions to General Rules and Imperative Limits in the European Legal Space. Dal pluralismo giuridico allo Stato interculturale. Statuti personali, deroghe al diritto comune e limiti inderogabili nello spazio giuridico europeo. Director: Lucio Pegoraro.

PRIN 2009 La biodiversità umana in Emilia Romagna: isolati geografici e socio-culturali.

Director: Davide Pettener (from 2011 to 2013).

ALMAIDEA 2017 L'identità etnolinguistica e genomica degli Yaghnobi alla luce dell'eredità sogdiana. Director: Antonio Clemente Domenico Panaino.

Affiliation to academies and organizations of undisputed importance in the field

ANUAC Associazione Italiana Antropologia.

AISEA Associazione italiana per le scienze etno-antropologiche

ASA Association of Social Anthropology.

ASA American Anthropological Association (USA).

Member of the CIHA Centro de Investigaciones Históricas y Antropológicas, Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia).

Refereering and couselling activity

Refereeing for the following journals:

Confluenze

https://confluenze.unibo.it [https://confluenze.unibo.it/]

Memory Studies https://journals.sagepub.com/home/mss

Rivista di Antropologia https://www.mulino.it/riviste/issn/2724-3168

Anthropology of Food [https://journals.openedition.org/aof/]

Anuac, Rivista della Società Italiana di Antropologia Culturale [https://ojs.unica.it/index.php/anuac]

Revista del Museo de Antropología UNC [https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/antropologia]

Conferences attended

• Colloque internationale: Machines, genre et natures: anthropologie des territoires extractifs.

Paris 15-17 October 2019. Contribution with Rodrigo Montani: “Los anti-máquinas: “cuadros” y paisajes wichís del Chaco argentino”.

• Seminario-laboratorio internacional Exploraciones antropológico-lingüísticas entre los wichís del Gran Chaco.

Córdoba (Argentina) 4-5 June 2018. Contribution:“Interpretación y traducción: anotar la historia y comprender las emociones”.

• 56 Congreso Internacional de Americanistas.

Salamanca 15-20 July 2018. Contribution: "La mirada etnológica de Guido Boggiani.

• Capitalismes sauvages. Anthropologie historique des extractivismes en Ameriques du Sud. Rennes 10-11 October 2018. Contribution: “El genuino wichí, el inauténtico criollo. Dinamicas interétnicas en el Chaco argentino”.

• Costruendo lo Stato Interculturale. Proposte a confronto tra Global South e associazionismo in Italia.

Ravenna 29-30 October 2018. Contribution: Interculturalità indigena. Un caso etnografico.

• Tierras Bajas. Jornadas de Antropología Historia y Arquelogía. Museo de Historia de la Universidad Autónoma Gabriel René Moreno.

Santa Cruz de La Sierra (Bolivia) 7-8 November 2018. Contribution with Rodrigo Montani: Tradición con creatividad en el Chaco argentino.

• II Congreso Internacional de Antropología AIBR Identidad: puentes, umbrales y muros. Barcelona 6-9 septiembre 2016. Contribution: Historias Indígenas, Historias de mujeres. ¿Subjetividad como criterio de objetividad?. Reflexions “buenas para pensar”.

• IV Convegno Biennale Anuac Ambienti di vita e ambienti immaginati. Nuove sfide per l'antropologia.

Bozen, 5-8 Novembre 2015. Contribution: “¿El monte nos da comida?”. Alimentazione e rapporto con il territorio dei Wichí del Chaco argentino.

• Tierras Bajas. Jornadas de Antropología Historia y Arquelogía. Museo de Historia de la Universidad Autónoma Gabriel René Moreno.

Santa Cruz de La Sierra (Bolivia) 14-16 de Octubre 2015. Contribution: Autobiografía, persona y auto-representación. El caso de T.P. (Chaco, Argentina).

• Identità culinarie: pratiche e rappresentazioni del cibo in Sudamerica.

Roma 4-5 June 2015. Contribution: L'alimentazione come criterio complesso per definirsi e ridefinirsi indigeni. Il caso dei Wichi del Chaco argentino.

• Cibi in movimento. Transizioni e scambi tra saperi, pratiche, tecnologie e discorsi legati alla produzione, al consumo e alla circolazione di cibi.

Napoli 20-22 Novembre 2014. Contribution: De Gustibus non disputandum est. Riflessioni sulle preferenze alimentari dei Wichi del Chaco argentino.

• ASA 2014. Anthropology and Enlightenment

Edinburgh 19.06.2014/22.06.2014 Contribution: Paraje y parajización: the economic and political space of an indigenous community (Chaco, Argentina).P31 Indigenous Space and Local Politics.

• RAM Reunión de Antropologia del Mercosur.

Córdoba 10-13 July 2013. Grupo de Trabajo 32 “Sociedades indigenas y enclaves industriales, siglos XIX y XX”. Contribution: La representación wichi' del ingenio azucarero

• 54 Congreso Internacional de Americanistas.

Vienna 17-22 July 2012. Symposium ANT 1056. Coordinater of the panel: El problema ético en el diálogo intercultural en las Américas.

• Conclusione Progetto PRIN 2007.

Venice 10-12 December 2010. Contribution: Ethos Femminili: riflessioni etnografiche su dolore e resilienza.

• XXXIII Congresso Internazionale di Americanistica.

Perugia 5-8 May 2010. Contribution: Las formas narrativas de la resiliencia entre los Wichi' (Chaco, Argentina).

• Women's Life in Science and Humanities.

Bologna 4-5 June, 2009. Contribution: Knowledge building in Ruth Benedict's and Margaret Mead correspondence and diaries.

• La malattia di Chagas: esperienze, progetti e riflessioni tra Italia e Argentina.

Bologna12 May 2009. Contribution: I progetti CUIA I e CUIA II. Gli aspetti antropologici: una ricerca di campo nella provincia argentina del Chaco.

• L'ambiguità dell'Amazzone in una prospettiva di genere: decostruzione e riappropriazione di un mito.

Bologna 8-9 February 2008. Contribution: “Donne dal cuore di pietra: rappresentazione altre dal mondo amerindio.

• XXIX Congresso Internazionale di Americanistica.

Perugia 5-8 May 2007. Contribution: La scrittura e la presenza religiosa: i Wichi' di Misión Nueva Pompeya (Chaco, Argentina).

• 52 Congreso Internacional de Americanistas.

Seville 17-22 July 2006
Symposium ANT 12. Coordinater of the panel: “Reciprocidad y reinterpretación: valoración de los bienes en el contacto intercultural de las sociedes amerindias/Reciprocity and reinterpretation: estimate of goods in intercultural contacts of amendian society”. Contribution: La Historia que debe quedar por iscrito. Escritura y oralidad entre los Wichi'.

• Congresso Letteratura e Antropologia.

Siena 24-25 February, 2005. Convegno annuale dell'Associazione per gli Studi di Teoria e Storia Comparata della Letteratura. Contribution: Biografie, autobiografie e storie di vita tra antropologia e letteratura. Questioni storiche e metodologiche.

• XXVII Congresso Internazionale di Americanistica

Perugia 5-8 May 2005. Contribution: Contexto Cultural, reubicación y dinámicas familiares: el mapeo social de los Wichi' de Misión Nueva Pompeya.

• Coloquio Memoria Cultural. Europa y America desde una perspectiva comparatI'stica y interdisciplinaria, Cordoba (Argentina) 20-21 August 2004. Contribution: Biografie, autobiografie e diari. La memoria negli studi antropologici.

• Special Convention Nationalism, Identity and Regional Co-operation: compatibilities and incompatibilities,

Forlì 4-9 June 2002. Contribution: Cultural Memory, Construction of an Identity in European and Extra- European Context at the beginning of the 20th. A Life Story.

• 3 rd International Conference on Anthropology and the History of Health and Disease, “Living and Curing old age in the world”

Genoa 11-16 March, 2002. Contribution: La vecchiaia tra memoria storica e memoria autobiografica: un percorso interdisciplinare. Resoconto di una ricerca di campo.

• Utrecht Network International Summer School Human Rights, Globalization and Multiculturalism

Bologna, 7-8 July, 2002. Contribution: Anthropology and Human Rights: a Discussion Between Personal Engagements and Ethnographic Research.

• VI International Congress of the Women of the editerranean, “Women and the City: from the periphery to the Centre”.

Dubrovnik, Croatia, 30 June, 3 July, 2001. Contribution: Histoires de femmes, histoires de villes: les éspaces urbains de l'immigration féminine marocaine à Bologne.

• Study seminar at the Istituto Gramsci; title: “Laboratorio per i Diritti Dell'Infanzia 2001. Educare ai Diritti Umani”

Bologna, April - June 2001.
Contribution: Antropologia e Diritti Umani: il lavoro di campo come prima educazione ai Diritti dell' ‘altro' e Le storie di vita: Problemi metodologici nello studio e nella raccolta delle storie di vita.

• Convegno “Altrove Immaginari. Modelli di società tra etnografie inventate e costruzione utopiche”.

Salerno 22-24 September 2000.
Contribution: Processi identitari e strategie discorsive nell'etnografia sperimentale di Zora Neale Hurston.

• Congresso presso l'Istituto Gramsci

Bologna, 3-18 March 1999, Workshop for Human Rights ("Diritti Umani, multiculturalismo, conflitto: per una cultura planetaria all'alba del terzo millennio. Un laboratorio per i Diritti Umani") promoted by the Departments of Teaching Sciences and of Historical Sciences of the University of Bologna. Contribution: L'antropologia della violenza: una riflessione.

Organization of national and international seminaries

• 2021 (Gennaio-maggio). With Tiziana Lazzari, Isabella Lazzarini, Maria teresa Guerrini. Il silenzio delle ragazze”: questioni di genere e metodo fra antropologia e storia.

• 2019 (October) Bologna. With Lorena Córdoba and Nicolas Richard. La missione delle macchine: tecniche, lavoro e missioni nelle terre basse del Sud America.

• 2017 (December) Córdoba (Argentina). With Rodrigo Montani and Marco Flamini. Titolo: Exploraciones antropológico-lingüísticas entre los wichís del Gran Chaco. Universidad Nacional y Museo de Antropología.

• 2017 (Novembre) Bologna. With Cristina Gamberi. Narrative Autobiografiche tra Antropologia e Letteratura. University of Bologna: Dipartimento di Storia Cultura e Civiltà e LILEC.

• 2013 (February and May) Bologna. Con Valentina Peveri. Titolo: Il cibo dell’Etnografia. University of Bologna, Dipartimento di Storia Cultura e Civiltà.

• 2009 (May) Bologna. Con Maria Cristina Dasso. Titolo: L’etica nell’antropologia contemporanea. Questioni etnografiche (Chaco e Bolivia) e problematiche teoriche. University of Bologna, Dottorato in Studi Religiosi.

10. Main Pubblications

• 2021

  • Franceschi Z.A., Cordoba L., Richard N., (Eds.) La misión de la máquina: técnica, exctractivismo y conversión en la Tierras bajas sudamericanas, BUP, Bologna.
  • Franceschi Z.A., Nicolas Richard, Zelda Franceschi y Lorena Córdoba,Máquinas y misiones en las tierras bajas sudamericanas, in Franceschi Z.A., Cordoba L., Richard N., (Eds.) La misión de la máquina: técnica, exctractivismo y conversión en la Tierras bajas sudamericanas, BUP, Bologna, pp. 7-15.

    • 2020

  • Bossert F., Franceschi Z.A., Braunstein J., (Eds.) Un artista en la America meridional. Diario de los viajes por Argentina, Paraguay y Brasil (1887-1892). Guido Boggiani, Buenos Aires, Rumbo Sur 2020.
  • Franceschi Z.A., Bossert F., El diario perdido de Guido Boggiani, in Bossert F., Franceschi Z.A., Braunstein J., (Eds.) Un artista en la America meridional. Diario de los viajes por Argentina, Paraguay y Brasil (1887-1892). Guido Boggiani, Buenos Aires, Rumbo Sur 2020, pp. 18-89.
  • Franceschi Z.A., Montani R., Wichí: la gente, el mundo, la palabra [https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/antropologia/article/view/31617] . In Revista del Museo de Antropologia. Vol 13. NÚMERO 3, pp. 365-378. https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/antropologia/issue/view/2029
  • Franceschi Z.A., Apuntes para una “etnografía centrada en la persona” con los wichís del Chaco argentino, Vol 13 (2020) NÚMERO 3, pp. 405-418.

    https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/antropologia/issue/view/2029

    • 2019

  • Franceschi Z.A.Emociones y significado en la autobiografía indigena: reflexiones a partir de un caso wichí(Gran Chaco). InDisparidades74 (1), pp. 1-7.

    http://dra.revistas.csic.es/index.php/dra/article/view/599

    • 2018

  • Franceschi Z.A.Tessere storie. Etnografia dal Chaco argentino, Bologna, Emil, pp. 451.
  • Franceschi Z.A.El italiano de Guido Boggiani. In Braunstein J., Kokrhanek M.V., Franceschi Z.A., Krebs E.,Sanapaná, Create Space 2018, pp. 303-321.
  • Franceschi Z.A. Montani Rodrigo,El Mundo de las cosa entre los wichí del Chaco. Un estudio etnoligüistico,Journal de la société des américanistes, 104-2 pp. 228-235.

    https://journals.openedition.org/jsa/16598

    • 2017

  • Franceschi Z.A.L'alimentazione come criterio complesso per definirsi e ridefinirsi indigeni. Il caso dei wichí del Chaco argentino, in: Cattarulla C. (Ed.)Identità culinarie in Sudamerica, Rome, Nova Delphi, 2017, pp. 185 - 21.
  • Franceschi Z.A.Testimonios as Autobiography. Daily Life and Beliefs among the Wichí in the Argentine Chaco, in: Adriana Destro and Mauro Pesce (Ed.)Texts, Practices, and Groups, Turnhout, Brepols, 2017, pp. 577 - 613.

    • 2016

  • Franceschi C., Franceschi Z.A., Garagnani P., Giuliani, C.,Inflammaging and Its Role in Ageing and Age-Related Diseases, inAlvergne A., Jenkinson C., Faurie C.,Evolutionary Thinking in Medicine From Research to Policy and Practice, Springer, Switzerland, pp. 259-277.

    • 2015

  • Franceschi Z.A."Nostalgie du Néolitique". I diari di Alfred Métraux nel Gran Chaco,in Bottalla P. G.D’Agostini (ed.)Pagine di diario: coriandoli di vita, Padova, Unipress, pp. 193-229.
  • Franceschi Z.A., M.C.Dasso,La representación wichí del trabajo y el ingenio azucarero, inCapitalismo en las Selvas. Enclaves Industriales en el Chaco y Amazonía (1850-1950)In Córdoba L., Bossert F., Richard N., San Pedro de Atacama, Ed. del Desierto.

    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/301603827_Capitalismo_en_las_selvas_Enclaves_industriales_en_el_Chaco_y_Amazonia_indigenas_1850-1950

    • 2014

  • Franceschi Z.A.Las discípulas ocultas de Franz Boas: historia e historias de vida, inMaguaréVol. 28 n. 1 pp. 19-49.

    https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/maguare/article/view/53305

  • Franceschi Z.A., Paola Govoni,Writing about Lives in Science.(Auto)Biography, Gender, and Genre(Eds. Govoni P. and Franceschi Z.A.) VRUnipress, Goettingen, 2014, pp.287.
  • Franceschi Z.A.Afterword: On the Margins of the Margins Awareness and Delay,in Govoni P. andWriting about LivesinScience: (Auto) Biography, Gender and Genre, VR Unipress, Göttingen, 2014, pp. 263-277.
  • Franceschi Z.A.Women in the Field: Writing the History Genealogies and Science in Margaret Mead's Autobiographical Writingsin Govoni P. and Franceschi Z.A. (Eds.)Science: (Auto) Biography, Gender and Genre, VR Unipress, Göttingen, 2014, pp. 161-187.
  • Franceschi Z.A., Valentina Peveri,Raccontare di gusto. Arti del cibo e della memoria in America latina e Africa(eds. Franceschi Z.A. and Peveri V.), ETS, Pisa, 2014, pp. 237.
  • Franceschi Z.A.Memoria del gusto e prassi alimentare. I Wichi' di Misión Nueva Pompeya (Chaco, Argentina), in Franceschi Z.A. and Peveri V. (eds.)Raccontare di gusto. Arti del cibo e della memoria in America latina e AfricaETS, Pisa, 2014, pp. 93-123.
  • Franceschi Z.A. Note ai saggi, in Franceschi Z.A. and Peveri V. (eds.)Raccontare di gusto. Arti del cibo e della memoria in America latina e Africa, ETS, Pisa, 2014, pp. 37-51.

    • 2013

  • Franceschi Z.A., Valentina Peveri, Pop Food. Il cibo dell'etnografia,(eds. Franceschi Z.A. and Peveri V.), Emil, Bologna, 2013. pp. 238.
  • Franceschi Z.A.Post-fazione, in Franceschi Z.A. and PeveriV. (eds.)Pop Food. Il cibo dell'etnografia,Emil, Bologna, 2013, pp. 195-224.
  • Sevini F., Yang Yao D.Y., Lomartire L, Barbieri A., Vianello D., Ferri G., Moretti E., Dasso M.C., Garagnani P., Pettener D., Franceschi C., Luiselli D., Franceschi Z.A..,Analysis of population substructure in two sympatric populations of gran chaco, Argentina,Plos ONE,2013, Vol.8, pp1 – 15.

    https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0064054

    • 2012

  • Franceschi Z.A. (ed.)Annuario Storie di vita,Ledizioni, Milano, 2012. pp. 324.
  • Franceschi Z.A.Le buone mani e le mani buone di Teodora Polo: una storia di vita,inAnnuario di Antropologia, Milano, Ledizioni 2012, pp. 43-81.

    https://www.ledijournals.com/ojs/index.php/antropologia/article/view/173

  • Franceschi Z.A. Introduzione, in Franceschi Z.A. (ed.)Annuario Storie di vita, Ledizioni, Milano, 2012, pp. 1-29.
  • Franceschi Z.A.Rappresentare e testimoniare. Etica del lavoro e della povertà. I Wichi' di Misión Nueva Pompeya (Chaco, Argentina),in Destro A. (ed.)Rappresentare. Questioni di antropologia, cinema e narrativa, Bologna, Clueb, 2012, pp. 71-98.

    • 2011

  • Franceschi Z.A.Razza, razzismo e antirazzismo. Modelli, rappresentazioni, ideologie,(ed.), Odoya, Bologna, 2011. pp. 255.
  • Franceschi Z.A.L'approccio integrato dell'antropologia fisica e culturale. Franz Uri Boas, riflessioni sul concetto di razza, in Franceschi Z.A. (ed.)Razza, razzismo e antirazzismo. Modelli, rappresentazioni, ideologie,Editore Odoya, Bologna, 2011, pp. 101-129.
  • Franceschi Z.A.La razza tra natura e cultura, in Franceschi Z.A. (ed.)Razza, razzismo e antirazzismo. Modelli, rappresentazioni, ideologie, Editore Odoya, Bologna, 2011, pp. 7-69.

    • 2010

  • Franceschi Z.A.Etno-grafias. La escritura como testimonio entre los Wichi',(eds. Franceschi Z.A. and Maria Cristina Dasso), Buenos Aires, Corregidor, 2010. pp. 333.
  • Franceschi Z.A.Dai maestri alle allieve. Etnografia in cerca della persona,in Destro A. (ed.)Femminile e Personale, Roma, Carocci, 2010, pp. 57-85.
  • Franceschi C., Yang Yao D., Sevini F., Santoro A., Luiselli D., Pettener D., Ferri G., Dasso M.C., Perez de la Hoz R., Moretti E., Basso B., Castro I., Ciannameo A., Franceschi Z.A.Genetics and anthropology in studies on aging and Chagas disease,Journal of Anthropological Science, 2010, vol. 88, p. 245-250.

    • 2009

  • Franceschi, Z.A.Donne dal cuore d'uomo. Rappresentazioni altre dal mondo amerindio, in Golinelli G. (ed.)L'ambiguità dell'amazzone in una prospettiva di genere. Decostruzione e riappropriazione di un mito, Bologna, Emil, 2009, pp. 213-229.

    • 2008

  • Franceschi Z.A. (ed.)Etno-grafie. La scrittura come testimonianza tra i Wichi',Editore Odoya, Bologna, 2008. pp. 271.
  • Franceschi, Z.A., Dasso M.C., Barúa G.,El papel femenino en la convivencia wichi del Chaco central,in Hirsch, S. (ed.),Mujeres Indigenas en la Argentina. Cuerpo, trabajo, poder, Buenos Aires. Editorial Biblos 2008, pp. 117-151.

    • 2007

  • Franceschi, Z.A., Fortunati V.,Primitive Art in Modernism: the Ambivalence of Appropriation,inModernism.Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, in Eysteinsson A., Liska V. (Ed.), John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam/Philadelphia, 2007, pp. 651-672.
  • Franceschi, Z.A.Cultural memory and Identity Construction in a European and Extra-European context at the beginning of the XX century.A life Story,in Callari Galli (Ed.)Contemporary Nomadism, Verlag, Münster, 2007, pp. 53-75.
  • Franceschi, Z.A.,Tre viaggiatori italiani nel Chaco e nel Paraguay: ‘i primitivi' e le pratiche alimentari,in Golinelli G. (ed.)Il primitivismo e le sue metamorfosi. Archeologia di un discorso culturale, Bologna, Clueb, 2007, pp. 187-205.
  • Franceschi, Z.A.,Memoria Narrativa e Autobiografica, in Agazzi E. and Fortunati V. (ed.)Memoria e Saperi, Roma, Meltemi, 2007, pp.581-605.
  • Franceschi Z.A. and Dasso M. C.Contexto Cultural, Reubicación y Dinámicas Familiares: el Mapeo Social De Los Wichi' De Misión Nueva Pompeya, inQuaderni di Thule, Convegno Internazionale di Americanistica Actas XXVII International Congress of American Studies, Perugia 5-8 May 2007, pp. 293-305.

    • 2006

  • Franceschi, Z.A.Le storie di vita. Percorsi nella storia dell'antropologia americana,Editore Clueb Bologna, 2006. pp. 342.
  • Franceschi, Z.A.Franz Boas e Bronislaw Malinowski: il diario e le lettere dal campoin Tarozzi B., (ed.)Giornate particolari. Diari cronache e memorie, Verona, Ombre Corte, 2006, pp. 313-323.

    • 2004

  • Franceschi, Z.A.Peter Wade, Race, Nature and Culture: An Anthropological Perspective, 2002, inJournal of Biosocial Science, Cambridge, 2004.
  • Franceschi Z.A., Un siglo de misiones: trabajo y máquinas en el monte chaqueño
    con los wichís de la Misión Nueva Pompeya    , in Franceschi Z.A., Cordoba L., Richard N., (Eds.) La misión de la máquina: técnica, exctractivismo y conversión en la Tierras bajas sudamericanas, BUP, Bologna, pp. 95-119.

11. Commission and organization activities for the University

From 2017- member of the Doctoral board in Archeological Sciences. Memory Civilisation and heritage, University of Bologna.

https://www.unibo.it/it/didattica/dottorati/2019-2020/scienze-storiche-e-archeologiche-memoria-civilta-e-patrimonio

From 2014- member of the Quality Assurance Commission for the Degree course in Oriental Anthropology, Religions, civilizations.

From 2014-. Affiliated to the University of Oxford. Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology.

From 2005-member of the Assessment committee for the prerequisites to access the MA course in Cultural anthropology and ethnology, University of Bologna.

In charge of the Erasmus Plus exchange with the University of Granada, Department of Anthropology.

Main fields of research

• Life stories and autobiographies. This is a field pertaining to the Historiy of anthropology in the American area and the methodologies of field work.

• Historical reconstruction in the field of the history of anthropology via field diaries, letters, photos and field notes,

• Indigenous autobiographies with a particular focus on the South American Lowlands.

• The Wichí population of Misión Nueva Pompeya (Chaco, Argentina).
Themes and fields of interest: the health/disease ratio; oralcy/writing; autobiographical memory; material culture; anthropology of nutrition; indigenism; genetics of the population.

• History of anthropology, with particular interest in the American school and the anthropologists who worked in the South American Lowlands.

Field research

Argentina (Chaco-Salta) starting in 2004, for one to two months every year.

 

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