Massimo Canevacci
{{Short description|Italian academic and ethnographer (born 1942)}}
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Massimo Canevacci (born 1942) is an Italian academic, ethnographer and critical thinker. He is known for his works about contemporary metropolis, 'native' cultures{{Cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Massimo-Canevacci/e/B00E9ZA7HS|title = Massimo Canevacci|website = Amazon}} and digital arts.{{Cite web|url=http://www.iea.usp.br/en/news/the-centrality-of-technology-in-the-contemporary-world|title=The centrality of technology in the contemporary world — en|website=www.iea.usp.br|accessdate=23 May 2023}} Canevacci is currently based on the Institute of Advanced Studies of the University of São Paulo, Brazil, and he has been living in São Paulo since 2008. He is married to the artist Sheila Ribeiro.{{Cite web |url=http://www.fta.qc.ca/sites/fta.qc.ca/files/archives85-08/05/en/100.html |title=Festival de théâtre des Amériques - 2005 Season |access-date=2015-03-20 |archive-date=2015-04-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402132110/http://www.fta.qc.ca/sites/fta.qc.ca/files/archives85-08/05/en/100.html |url-status=dead }}
The majority of Canevacci's works are published in Italian and Portuguese. Before moving to Brazil, Canevacci was a Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the Faculty of Communication Sciences of the Sapienza University of Rome. He also directed the Italian magazine 'Avatar' from 2001 to 2006.
Canevacci is known for the development of the concepts of 'communicational metropolis', 'multividual' [https://web.archive.org/web/20150402092714/http://90.146.8.18/en/archives/festival_archive/festival_catalogs/festival_artikel.asp?iProjectID=13270 Festival catalog] as well as the tensions between 'self-and hetero-representation'. He is also known for his contribution to the study of digital cultures and his dialogic relationship with 'native' populations such as the Bororo and the Xavante of Central Brazil.{{Cite web |url=http://interviews.womenforaction.org/2014/10/italy-brazil-interview-with-professor_27.html#.VQuoWWTF9pY |title=Interviews: ITALY & BRAZIL: Interview with Professor Massimo Canevacci and Flavia Kremer Discussing the Bororo Culture and Tradition (Part Two) |access-date=2015-03-20 |archive-date=2015-03-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150327044639/http://interviews.womenforaction.org/2014/10/italy-brazil-interview-with-professor_27.html#.VQuoWWTF9pY |url-status=dead }}
Biography
Canevacci was born in Rome in 1942. He graduated with a thesis about the Frankfurt School and he went on to develop these theories in relation to contemporary transformations of digital communication.{{Cite web|url=http://www.en.zvab.com/book-search/title/ars-electronica-2005-hybrid/author/massimo-canevacci|title=Shopping on AbeBooks}} His recent works include The Line of Dust: Bororo Culture Between Tradition, Mutation and Self-Representation published in 2013 and Sinkrética - Esplorazioni etnografiche sulle arti contemporanee published in 2014.
Books in English
Books in Italian
- Sinkrética - Esplorazioni etnografiche sulle arti contemporanee, Catania, Bonanno, (2014).{{Cite web|url=http://www.rivistadiscienzesociali.it/recensione-di-giorgio-cipolletta-sincretika-di-massimo-canevacci/|title = "SincretiKa", Massimo Canevacci. Recensione di Giorgio Cipolletta – Rivista di Scienze Sociali}}
- Una stupita fatticità. Feticismi visuali tra corpi e metropoli, Roma, Costa & Nolan, (2007).{{Cite web|url=https://www.ibs.it/stupita-fatticita-feticismi-visuali-tra-libro-massimo-canevacci/e/9788874370573|title=Una stupita fatticità. Feticismi visuali tra corpi e metropoli - Massimo Canevacci - Libro - Costa & Nolan - Estetiche della comunicazione globale | IBS|website=www.ibs.it|accessdate=23 May 2023}}
- La Linea di Polvere, Roma, Meltemi, (2007).{{cite web |url=http://meltemieditore.it/Scheda_libro.asp?Codice=Y054 |title=Meltemi Editore |website=meltemieditore.it |access-date=22 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090131122428/http://meltemieditore.it/Scheda_libro.asp?Codice=Y054 |archive-date=31 January 2009 |url-status=dead}}
- Sincretismi. Esplorazioni diasporiche sulle ibridazioni culturali, Roma, Costa & Nolan (2004). [http://www.ibs.it/code/9788874370009/canevacci-massimo/sincretismi-esplorazioni-diasporich.html Sincretismi. Esplorazioni diasporiche sulle ibridazioni culturali - Massimo Canevacci - Libro - Costa & Nolan - Riscontri | IBS]
- Didattica etnografica sperimentale, Roma, Booklet Milano, (2002).{{Cite web|url=http://www.ibs.it/code/9788869165214/canevacci-massimo/didattica-etnografica-speriment.html|title = P.J. Didattica etnografica sperimentale - Massimo Canevacci - Libro - Booklet Milano - le melusine | IBS}}
- Culture extreme. Mutazioni giovanili nei corpi delle metropoli, Roma, Meltemi. (2003).{{cite book | title=Amazon.it: Culture extreme. Mutazioni giovanili nei corpi delle metropoli - Canevacci, Massimo - Libri | id={{ASIN|8883532473|country=it}} }}
- Antropologia della comunicazione visuale. Feticci, merci, pubblicità, cinema, corpi, videoscape, Roma, Meltemi, (2001){{Google books |id=k1MXXv7N39sC |title=Antropologia della comunicazione visuale: feticci, merci, pubblicità, cinema, corpi, videoscape }}
- La città polifonica. Saggio sull'antropologia della comunicazione urbana, Roma, Seam (1997).{{Cite web|url=http://www.ibs.it/code/9788881790555/canevacci-massimo/citta-polifonica-saggio.html|title = Libri Comunità urbane | IBS}}
- Minima Viralia. La solitudine non solitaria di un antropologo in quarantena, Roma, Rogas (2020).{{Cite web|url=https://www.ibs.it/minima-viralia-solitudine-non-solitaria-libro-massimo-canevacci/e/9788899700447|title = Minima viralia. La solitudine non solitaria di un antropologo in quarantena - Massimo Canevacci - Libro - Rogas - la sensibilità vitale | IBS}}
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