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MENTE LOCALE / IN ALTRO MARE
Per un'antropologia dell'abitare



2011
prefazione di Paul K. Feyerabend
128 pp.libro + DVD
EAN 9788896904008
 

Franco La Cecla
Local mind
For an anthropology of dwelling

Local mind is the ability common to all cultures and individuals to make sense of space, to create mental maps that allows humans to meaningfully live within space. It is a skill that we acquire, just like language, movement or music, which allows us to imagine and change the space we live in, to "use" it. Today, such continuous interaction between us and the environment is often reduced to mere consumption. And this in turn is further alienated by "experts of space": architects, politicians, bureaucrats. Though latent, the local mind is always ready to take advantage of any fissure of the bureaucratic system to reveal itself. It happened in Palermo with the "revolts of the courtyards", or in Terassini where fishermen project their space even across the Atlantic, "in other sea". But it is also an expression of the dreams of ubiquity we all today seem share.


In altro mare/In Other Sea
dvd – 56'

In Other Sea is the narration of a present day epic: that of the Italian migration that is still going on regardless Italy's widespread racism towards foreign immigrants. This documentary is an original depiction of deep-sea fishing, in itself an heroic and dangerous endeavour. For over five generations, a community of 23,000 Sicilian fishermen from Terrasini have been sailing the cold waters of the Atlantic. It is story of strong identities, of courageous captains and of their wives, who have founded a strong and combative union. It is also the story of Saint Peter festival, a yearly event whereby the fishermen celebrate, through the greasy pole ritual the difficult art of deep-sea fishing.


First prize as Best Coastal Culture Film
at the San Francisco Ocean Film Festival (2010)

directed by Franco La Cecla
in cooperation with the Cineteca di Bologna

Franco La Cecla (Palermo 1950) is an anthropologist and urban planner. He has taught cultural anthropology in Berkeley, Paris, Venice, Bologna and Milan. He is the author of numerous books on the anthropology of everyday life, such as
Mente locale, per un'antropologia dell'abitare, Non č cosa, vita affettiva degli oggetti, (with a visual appendix by Luca Vitone), L'Ape, antropologia su tre ruote (with a visual appendix by Luca Vitone and Melo Minnella, and Saperci fare, corpi e autenticitā, Modi bruschi, antropologia del maschio, all published by Elčuthera.

eventi
29 aprile 2011 - Mente Locale e In altro mare - libreria Feltrinelli, via Cavour 135 Palermo
28 maggio 2011 - Mente Locale e In altro mare - Fiera di Genova - Porto di Genova sala b
14 aprile 2011 - Mente locale e In altro mare - Frigoriferi Milanesi, Via Piranesi, 10
26 aprile 2011 - Mente locale, In altro mare - cinema Metropolitan, via Strasburgo 356 Palermo
30 aprile 2011 - Mente locale, In altro mare - Capri Trendwatching Festival
23 maggio 2011 - Mente locale, In altro mare - Bologna, via San Vitale
27-28-29 maggio 2011 - Dialoghi sull'uomo - Pistoia
4 maggio 2011 - Mente locale, In altro mare - caffe libreria Tertulia, via M. Rapisardi 13
28 maggio 2011 - Mente Locale e In altro mare - libreria FinisTerre, Genova