Research Area
Active Research fields
Wayuu ethnology (Colombia). Comparative Ethnology of indigenous peoples of Tropical America. Indigenous rights and development. Anthropology of development. Theoretical trends in contemporary anthropology: the "ontological turn" and its critics.
Research projects of the last 5 years
PRIN 2015. Project title: titolo: "Cucina politica: il linguaggio del cibo tra pratiche sociali e rappresentazioni ideologiche" (coordinator rearch team Unipa: prof. Gianfranco Marrone; scientific coordinator: prof. Massimo Montanari, UNIBO)
Collaborations
Laboratorio Iberoamericano de Innovaciòn e Investigaciòn en Cultura y Desarrollo (Universidad Tecnologica de Bolivar, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, Universidad de Girona, Spain, Unipa); Doctorado en Desarrollo Sostenible, Universidad de Manizales, Colombia, direttore: prof. Ciro Serna; Doctorado en Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Granada, Spain.