De Martino, apocalisse e la decolonialità. Riflessioni sulla crisi mezzo secolo dopo
The recent reeditions and translations of Ernesto de Martino’s posthumous volume La fine del mondo have provoked many reflections on the timeliness of this work. In this article, the author aims to place the discussions over de Martino’s timeliness within the framework of decolonial thought, arguing...
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Dipartimento Culture e Società - Università di Palermo
2024-12-01
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| Series: | Archivio Antropologico Mediterraneo |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/aam/9386 |
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| Summary: | The recent reeditions and translations of Ernesto de Martino’s posthumous volume La fine del mondo have provoked many reflections on the timeliness of this work. In this article, the author aims to place the discussions over de Martino’s timeliness within the framework of decolonial thought, arguing along four main lines. The first point offers a re-reading of the “demartinian” crisis today as a crisis of whiteness. Secondly, the author considers some recent ethnographic works with decolonial implications, which we can usefully read through the lens of de Martino’s work. The third point is an examination of some alternative apocalypses of subaltern peoples, considered only tentatively by de Martino, from a decolonial perspective. Finally, the author compares de Martino’s thinking about a “new humanism” to that of the decolonial scholar Sylvia Wynter. |
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| ISSN: | 2038-3215 |