Antropologia

Curriculum Vitae Eng.

Full professor in the scientific area M-DEA/01, Francesco Faeta teach Cultural Anthropology and Visual Anthropology at the University of Messina.
Vice-director of the Department of Cognitive Sciences and Training, he is co-ordinator of the PhD Programme "Anthropology and Historical-Linguistic Studies", in the same University, and also Director of the School of Visual Ethnography (SEV) at the Istituto Superiore di Fotografia e Comunicazione Integrata (College of Photography and Integrated Communications), a private institution in Rome.
He has held seminars and lessons, as teacher on contract or visiting professor, in Italian Universities and abroad (University of Calabria, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, University of Siena, University of Torino, University of Palermo, University of Basilicata, College “Suor Orsola Benincasa” of Naples, University of Salzburg, University of Toulouse, University of Paris “ La Sorbonne”, École Pratique des Hautes Études, École Française de Rome, University of Valladolid, University of La Curuña, etc.).
His essays and ethnographic photographs have been published in the most reputable Italian reviews (“Classe”, “Annali dell’Istituto Cervi”, “Atti dei Convegni Lincei”, “Ricerche di Storia dell’arte”, “Quaderni del Circolo Semiologico Siciliano”, “Lares”, “La Ricerca Folklorica”, “l’Uomo”, “La Critica Sociologica”, “Ossimori”, “Archivio Antropologico Mediterraneo”, “AM-Antropologia Museale”, “Annali di San Michele”, “Voci”) and in some of the most valued foreign reviews, including “Terrain” and “Gradhiva” in France, too. His essays and works have been translated in French, English, Spanish, German, Rumanian and Hungarian.
Director of an operative unit of the Research Project "Cultural Heritage" of CNR (National Research Board) and, for Franco Angeli, publisher in Milan, of the collection “Imagines. Studi visuali e pratiche della rappresentazione” (Imagines. Visual studies and practices of the representation), he was a member of the National Committee for the Study of the Anthropological Heritage, founded by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Cultural Affairs. Member of AISEA (Italian Association for Ethnological and Anthropological Studies), is part of the board of directors of SISF (Italian Society for the Study on Photography)
For many years he has carried out an extensive research in the field of anthropology of Europe, focusing on Southern Italy and, in it, specially on Visual Anthropology production, on the social and cultural organization of territories and folk-architectures, on the ethnological and anthropological museums, on popular religious beliefs and the dynamics of festivals and rituals.
Particularly interested at the relationships between Anthropology and Art-history, mostly in the field of popular religion, he is engaged, now, in the study of the cultural imaginary related with the making of Italian Nation-State; in a wide research project, carried on at an European scale, in the theoretical perspective of an Anthropology of memory, on cemeteries and remembrance techniques in the urban and rural contexts; in the study of the (ancient and contemporary) holy drama of Cerveno, in Northern Italy.

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