PALUMBO Berardino

Berardino Palumbo (Ph.D. Ethnology, University of Rome “La Sapienza” 1991) is Full Professor of Social Anthropology at the Department COSPECS, University of Messina where he is the Director of the Bachelo Program in Social Work.

He has done fieldwork in Ghana (Western Region), and Italy (Campania and Sicily). Among his recent research topics, the analysis of heritage production and “cultural objectification” processes, and their connections with a neoliberal governance; the anthropology of the Nation-State and of the institutions; the Sicilian mafia as a “necropolitical” kind of governance.

He has published four ethnographic monographs (Madre-Madrina, Angeli 1991, Identità nel tempo, Argo 1997, L’UNESCO e il Campanile, Meltemi 2003, Politiche dell’inquietudine, Le Lettere 2009) and essays on international (Comparative Studies in Society and History, Journal of Modern Italian Studies, Ethnology, Anthropological Quarterly, Terrain, History and Anthropology), and national journals.

Temporary positions:
2006: Directeur d'Etudes invité (Visiting professor) Ecole Pratique
d'Hautes Etudes (Séction sciences religieuses), Paris (May
2006).
2010: Accepted as Visiting Professor for 2011 by EHESS - Marseille