Luciano Li Causi

Biography

Luciano Li Causi (Palermo, 1949) graduated from the University of Rome (in Modern Literature, Ethnology) and received his Diploma in Social Anthropology at the University College of London. He has carried out field research in Lampedusa (Agrigento), in the two-year period 1975-1976 and subsequently in Siena, between the end of the 80s and the beginning of the 90s, as well as some surveys on the ground in southern Africa (Zimbabwe) over the years '80 and '90. Between 2004 and 2005 he carried out a field research in Greece (Thessaly), on themes of political anthropology. In the second half of the '70s and until 1984 he was an exerciser and collaborator of the chair of Cultural Anthropology of the Faculty of Magisterium of the University of Rome. Since 1984 he has been a researcher at the University of Siena; he is an associate professor at the same university since 1998; currently teaches Social Anthropology and Political Anthropology. The fields of interest are mainly linked to the political anthropology and anthropology of the Mediterranean area and Europe; he dealt with theoretical and methodological issues such as patronage / patronage, political parties (with particular reference to the PCI and KKE, PC of Greece), ethnic and national identities. He is currently interested, both historically and anthropologically, in the intertwining of politics, ethnicity and nation in contemporary Greece and Thessaly. He is also interested in the study of migration, in Europe and in Italy, and social and political movements in times of globalization. On these topics he published books, articles and essays.

Research Interest

The fields of interest are mainly linked to the political anthropology and anthropology of the Mediterranean area and Europe