Carlo Severi (born December 9, 1952) is an Italian

anthropologist An anthropologist is a person engaged in the practice of anthropology. Anthropology is the study of aspects of humans within past and present societies. Social anthropology, cultural anthropology and philosophical anthropology study the norms and ...

who is Professor at th
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
(

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). He is noted for his studies of ritual, image/imagination, and social memory

Education

He studied philosophy at Università Statale, Milano, Italy where he obtained his master's degree (Laurea) in 1976 with a dissertation in anthropology ("Analyse du Mu Ikala: structure de la thérapie et idéologie du sujet dans un exemple de thérapie primitive (Cuna de Panama)"). During his PhD in anthropology a
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
(

), he was one of the last students of

Claude Lévi-Strauss Claude Lévi-Strauss (, ; 28 November 1908 – 30 October 2009) was a French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theories of structuralism and structural anthropology. He held the chair of Social Anthro ...

who was also one of the juries of his doctoral thesis ("Le traitement chamanique de la folie chez les Indiens Cuna de Panama") of the third cycle in social anthropology.

Career

He is currently Director of Research, Chair in "Anthropology of the memory" a
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
(

) in Paris and Director of Research a
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
(

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) of France. He is also a member of th
Laboratoire d'anthropologie sociale
of

Collège de France The Collège de France (), formerly known as the ''Collège Royal'' or as the ''Collège impérial'' founded in 1530 by François I, is a higher education and research establishment (''grand établissement'') in France. It is located in Paris ne ...

(LAS, founded in 1960 by

) since 1985, and a member of the Department of Research in Museum quai Branly in Paris. He has published many articles and books (Cf

, including a key contribution to the study of ritual
Naven and the Other self: a relational approach to ritual action (with Michael Houseman)
His most famous work was originally published in Italian as "Il percorso e la voce: un'antropologia della memoria" (Einaudi 2004) and later in French ''Le Principe de la chimère: Une anthropologie de la mémoire''
(Presses de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure
- Musée Branly 2007). A revised edition
"The Chimera Principle: an anthropology of memory and imagination"
has been published in English in 2015 b
HAU Books
He edited a number of seminal collections: a special issue of the journal L'Homme entitled "Image and anthropology" and a special issue o
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
(with Bill Hanks)
Translating worlds: the epistemological space of translation
From the year of 1978 to 1984, he received several scholarships and financial aid from

Maison des Sciences de l'Homme
and

etc. He was often invited as a visiting scholar or invited professor by overseas institutes and universities, such as King's College,

Cambridge University , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

(1990), Getty Research Center for the History of Art and the Humanities,

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(1994–1995),

University of Heidelberg } Heidelberg University, officially the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg, (german: Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg; la, Universitas Ruperto Carola Heidelbergensis) is a public research university in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, ...

, Germany (2000),

Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hem ...

Baltimore (2006), National Museum, University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1991, 1995) etc.

References

External links

Carlo Severi - CVEcole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences SocialesLaboratoire d'anthropologie socialeMuseum quai BranlyCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique
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