Carlo Severi
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Carlo Severi is an Italian anthropologist who works chiefly in France. He is noted for studies of image, and social memory.
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.
(LAS, founded in 1960 by Claude Lévi-Strauss
) since 1985, and a member of the Department of Research in Museum quai Branly in Paris.
He has published many articles and books (Cf. http://www.carloseveri.net/publications.html). His recent book Le Principe de la chimère: Une anthropologie de la mémoire, is published by Presses de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - Musée Branly in 2007. In 2003, he directed and was Editor-in-Chief of a special number of the famous magazine L'Homme (The Man), entitled "Image and anthropology".
From the year of 1978 to 1984, he received several scholarships and financial aid from Collège de France
, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme and CNRS etc.
He was often invited as a visiting scholar or invited professor by overseas institutes and universities, such as King's College, Cambridge University (1990), Getty Research Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, Santa Monica, California
(1994–1995), University of Heidelberg, Germany (2000), Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore (2006), National Museum, University of Rio de Janeiro, Brésil (1991, 1995) etc.
Education
He studied philosophy at Università Statale, Milano, Italy and got his master degree there in the year of 1976. Since then he has become very interested in anthropology (his master thesis is entitled "Analyse du Mu Ikala: structure de la thérapie et idéologie du sujet dans un exemple de thérapie primitive (Cuna de Panama)"). During his PhD. study of anthropology at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), he was the student of Claude Lévi-StraussClaude Lévi-Strauss
Claude Lévi-Strauss was a French anthropologist and ethnologist, and has been called, along with James George Frazer, the "father of modern anthropology"....
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" at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris and Director of Research at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) of France. He is also a member of the Laboratoire d'anthropologie sociale of Collège de FranceCollège de France
The Collège de France is a higher education and research establishment located in Paris, France, in the 5th arrondissement, or Latin Quarter, across the street from the historical campus of La Sorbonne at the intersection of Rue Saint-Jacques and Rue des Écoles...
(LAS, founded in 1960 by Claude Lévi-Strauss
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Claude Lévi-Strauss was a French anthropologist and ethnologist, and has been called, along with James George Frazer, the "father of modern anthropology"....
) since 1985, and a member of the Department of Research in Museum quai Branly in Paris.
He has published many articles and books (Cf. http://www.carloseveri.net/publications.html). His recent book Le Principe de la chimère: Une anthropologie de la mémoire, is published by Presses de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - Musée Branly in 2007. In 2003, he directed and was Editor-in-Chief of a special number of the famous magazine L'Homme (The Man), entitled "Image and anthropology".
From the year of 1978 to 1984, he received several scholarships and financial aid from Collège de France
Collège de France
The Collège de France is a higher education and research establishment located in Paris, France, in the 5th arrondissement, or Latin Quarter, across the street from the historical campus of La Sorbonne at the intersection of Rue Saint-Jacques and Rue des Écoles...
, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme and CNRS etc.
He was often invited as a visiting scholar or invited professor by overseas institutes and universities, such as King's College, Cambridge University (1990), Getty Research Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, Santa Monica, California
Santa Monica, California
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(1994–1995), University of Heidelberg, Germany (2000), Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University
The Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States...
Baltimore (2006), National Museum, University of Rio de Janeiro, Brésil (1991, 1995) etc.