Carlo Tullio Altan (30 March 1916 – 15 February 2005) was an Italian
anthropologist,
sociologist and
philosopher. He was particularly known for his studies on the Italian national character,
[Cavalli, Alessandro]
Reflections on Political Culture and the "Italian National Character"
''Daedalus
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'', 22 June 2001 (accessed via subscription 26 April 2010[Angioni, Giulio]
Un antropologo anti-italiano
/ref> and was considered one of the pioneers of Italian cultural anthropology.[Robinson, Elisabetta]
Carlo Tullio Altan, pioniere dell'antropologia culturale
, ''Controluce'', Anno XIV, No. 3, March 2005 (in Italian, accessed 26 April 2010)[Galimberti, Umberto]
Il filosofo pioniere dell´antropologia
, ''La Repubblica
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'', 16 February 2005, reprinted on Giangiacomo Feltrinelli
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Editore (in Italian, accessed 26 April 2010)
Altan was born at San Vito al Tagliamento
San Vito al Tagliamento ( fur, San Vît dal Tiliment) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Pordenone in the Italian region Friuli Venezia Giulia, located about northwest of Trieste and about southeast of Pordenone.
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, in Friuli
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. His son Francesco Tullio Altan
Francesco Tullio Altan (born 30 September 1942) is an Italian comics artist and satirist.
Biography
He was born in Treviso, the son of Friulan anthropologist Carlo Tullio Altan. He studied at the University IUAV of Venice, but halted his studi ...
is a popular comic books creator and satirist.
Selected bibliography
* ''Lo spirito religioso del mondo primitivo'' (1960)
* ''Antropologia funzionale'' (1968)
* ''Valori, classi sociali e scelte politiche'' (with Alberto Marradi 1976)
* ''Manuale di antropologia culturale: storia e metodo'' (1979)
* ''Modi di produzione e lotta di classe in Italia'' (with Roberto Cartocci, 1979)
* ''Antropologia, storia e problemi'' (1983)
* ''La nostra Italia'' (1986)
* ''Populismo e trasformismo'' (1989)
*''Soggetto, simbolo e valore: Per un'ermeneutica antropologica'' (1992)
*''Ethnos e Civiltà: Identità etniche e valori democratici '' (1995)
*''La coscienza civile degli italiani: Valori e disvalori nella storia nazionale'' (1997)
*''Religioni, simboli, società: Sul fondamento umano dell'esperienza religiosa'' (with Marcello Massenzio, 1998)
*''Le grandi religioni a confronto: L'età della globalizzazione'' (2002)
References
External links
Carlo Tullio Altan
on WorldCat
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1916 births
2005 deaths
People from San Vito al Tagliamento
Italian anthropologists
Italian sociologists
20th-century Italian philosophers
20th-century anthropologists
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