Vanessa Grotti
Biographic Data
| ID | 155176 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vanessa Grotti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vanessa |
| FAMILY NAME | Grotti |
| SIGNATURE | GROTTI V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2041-2788 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The water eaters
Coastal areas are critical zones where multiple dynamic ecological and human processes meet, both concentrating and confounding human efforts to control nature. Rising sea levels have become emblematic of the effects of climate change. But in delta landscapes with extensive land reclamation, the risk of flooding derives from multiple factors whose evolution poses additional challenges. Focusing on the fallout of major floods in Romagna, on Italy'…
Chapter 1. The Making of Christian Bodies
Chapter 5 Narratives of the Invisible Autobiography, Kinship, and Alterity in Native Amazonia
Chapter 9 Humanity, Personhood and Transformability in Northern Amazonia
CHAPTER 2 First Contacts, Slavery and Kinship in North-Eastern Amazonia
The first book to address the classic anthropological theme of property through the ethnography of Amazonia, Ownership and Nurture sets new and challenging terms for anthropological debates about the region and about property in general. Property and ownership have special significance and carry specific meanings in Amazonia, which has been portrayed as the antithesis of Western, property-based, civilization. Through carefully constructed studies…
Nurturing the Other
Combining archival research, oral history and long-term ethnography, this book studies relations between Amerindians and outsiders, such as American missionaries, through a series of contact expeditions that led to the 'pacification' of three native Amazonian groups in Suriname and French Guiana. The author examines and contrasts Amerindian and non-Amerindian views on this process of social transformation through the lens of the body, notions of …
Nurturing the Other
Combining archival research, oral history, and long-term ethnography, Nurturing the Other studies relations between Amerindians and outsiders, such as American missionaries, through a series of contact expeditions that led to the 'pacification' of three native Amazonian groups in Suriname and French Guiana: the Wayana, Trio, and Akuriyo. Vanessa Grotti examines and contrasts Amerindian and non-Amerindian views on this process of social transforma…
Migrant Hospitalities in the Mediterranean
“This book offers a fresh view on hospitality, inviting us to rethink and rearticulate decades-long debates on migration and hospitality." —Nataša Gregorič Bon, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Re
Migrant Hospitalities in the Mediterranean
Hosting the Dead
In this chapter we consider the afterlife of the remains of unidentified migrants who have died while attempting to cross the Mediterranean from Albania and North Africa to Italy. Drawing on insights from long-term, multi-sited field research, we outline paths taken by human remains and consider their multiple agencies and distributed personhood through the relational modalities with which they are symbolically and materially engaged at different…
Accueillir les morts
In this article we consider the afterlife of the remains of unidentified migrants who have died while attempting to cross the Mediterranean from Albania and North Africa to Italy. Drawing on insights from long term, multi-sited field research, we outline paths taken by human remains and consider their multiple agencies and distributed personhood through the relational modalities with which they are symbolically and materially engaged at different…
Shifting vulnerabilities
The reproductive care of pregnant migrants entering the European Union via its Mediterranean borders represents an under-examined topic, despite a growing scholarly emphasis on female migrants and the gendered aspects of migration in the past three decades. This article uses ethnographic data gathered in Greece, Italy, and Spain to examine pregnant migrants' experiences of crossing, first reception, and reproductive care. We discuss our findings …
Temporalities of emergency
In Greece, Italy, and Spain, austerity policies combined with the structural density of migration flows have had concrete social and material manifestations in the delivery of public health care. Through our ethnographic case studies in Lampedusa and southeastern Sicily, Melilla, and Athens, we examine the maternity care offered to migrant patients in the midst and the aftermath of the so-called "migration crisis" in state and non-state structure…
Midwifes and Mothers
Giving Birth at Europe's Door
First Contacts, Slavery and Kinship in North-Eastern Amazonia
The Trio, Wayana and Akuriyo are Carib-speaking Amerindians of the border regions of Brazil, southern Suriname and southern French Guiana. 1 We have carried out fi eld research since 2003 in southern Suriname, in a predominantly Trio village shared with a number of Wayana and most of the surviving Akuriyo.A relationship of asymmetry has evolved between the Trio and Akuriyo since the late 1960s, although arguably from a native point of view these …
Ownership and Nurture
The first book to address the classic anthropological theme of property through the ethnography of Amazonia, Ownership and Nurture sets new and challenging terms for anthropological debates about the region and about property in general. Property and ownership have special significance and carry specific meanings in Amazonia, which has been portrayed as the antithesis of Western, property-based, civilization. Through carefully constructed studies…
Narratives of the Invisible
Shamanic knowledge is based on an ambiguous commensality with invisible others. As a result, shamans oscillate constantly between spheres of intimacy, both visible and invisible. A place of power and transformation, the spirit world is rarely described by native interlocutors in an objective, detached way; rather, they depict it in terms of events and experiences. Instead of examining the formal qualities of accounts of the spirit world through a…
Animism in rainforest and tundra
Amazonia and Siberia, classic regions of shamanism, have long challenged 'western' understandings of man's place in the world. By exploring the social relations between humans and non-human entities credited with human-like personhood (not only animals and plants, but also 'things' such as artifacts, trade items, or mineral resources) from a comparative perspective, this volume offers valuable insights into the constitutions of humanity and perso…
Securitization, alterity, and the state
Focusing on the region surrounding the Maroni River, which forms the border between Suriname and French Guiana, we examine how relations between different state and non-state social groups are articulated in terms of security. The region is characterised by multiple "borders" and frontiers of various kinds, the state boundary having the features of an interface or contact zone. Several key collectivities meet in this border zone: native Amazonian…
The Wealth of the Body
Esse artigo è uma analise das relações que os Tiriyó (Suriname) tem desenvolvido com o comercio, os objetos, e com as pessoas não-ameríndias com as quais eles praticam trocas de objetos manufaturados. Apresento o comercio desde uma perspectiva ameríndia da socialidade, focalizando-me sobre as relações entre pessoas. Nesse artigo, apresento uma analise do comercio no contexto de uma discussão mais amplia sobre noções de pessoa, de corpo e de mater…
Strange Enemies
Happy with the Enemy
This article is based on fieldwork among a Central Carib people known as the Trio, who have for the past 40 years lived alongside their former enemies in large sedentary villages in southern Suriname. The article analyses the relations that have been established and nurtured between people, particularly those of distant affines, at times of communal celebrations such as beer feasts, with a particular focus on intersubjectivity. As the frequency a…
Un corps en mouvement
Un corps en mouvement : parenté, ' diffusion de l'influence ' et transformations corporelles dans les fêtes de bière tirio, Amazonie du Nord-Est. Cet article est une analyse des relations sociales établies entre les corps lors des célébrations collectives que les Tirio organisent régulièrement dans leurs villages du Sud du Surinam. Les villages auxquels on se réfère sont des structures relativement récentes et sont caractérisés par la sédentarité…
Shifting vulnerabilities
The reproductive care of pregnant migrants entering the European Union via its Mediterranean borders represents an under-examined topic, despite a growing scholarly emphasis on female migrants and the gendered aspects of migration in the past three decades. This article uses ethnographic data gathered in Greece, Italy, and Spain to examine pregnant migrants' experiences of crossing, first reception, and reproductive care. We discuss our findings …
Animism in rainforest and tundra
Amazonia and Siberia, classic regions of shamanism, have long challenged 'western' understandings of man's place in the world. By exploring the social relations between humans and non-human entities credited with human-like personhood (not only animals and plants, but also 'things' such as artifacts, trade items, or mineral resources) from a comparative perspective, this volume offers valuable insights into the constitutions of humanity and perso…
Temporalities of emergency
In Greece, Italy, and Spain, austerity policies combined with the structural density of migration flows have had concrete social and material manifestations in the delivery of public health care. Through our ethnographic case studies in Lampedusa and southeastern Sicily, Melilla, and Athens, we examine the maternity care offered to migrant patients in the midst and the aftermath of the so-called "migration crisis" in state and non-state structure…
The Wealth of the Body
Esse artigo è uma analise das relações que os Tiriyó (Suriname) tem desenvolvido com o comercio, os objetos, e com as pessoas não-ameríndias com as quais eles praticam trocas de objetos manufaturados. Apresento o comercio desde uma perspectiva ameríndia da socialidade, focalizando-me sobre as relações entre pessoas. Nesse artigo, apresento uma analise do comercio no contexto de uma discussão mais amplia sobre noções de pessoa, de corpo e de mater…
Happy with the Enemy
This article is based on fieldwork among a Central Carib people known as the Trio, who have for the past 40 years lived alongside their former enemies in large sedentary villages in southern Suriname. The article analyses the relations that have been established and nurtured between people, particularly those of distant affines, at times of communal celebrations such as beer feasts, with a particular focus on intersubjectivity. As the frequency a…
Un corps en mouvement
Un corps en mouvement : parenté, ' diffusion de l'influence ' et transformations corporelles dans les fêtes de bière tirio, Amazonie du Nord-Est. Cet article est une analyse des relations sociales établies entre les corps lors des célébrations collectives que les Tirio organisent régulièrement dans leurs villages du Sud du Surinam. Les villages auxquels on se réfère sont des structures relativement récentes et sont caractérisés par la sédentarité…
Narratives of the Invisible
Shamanic knowledge is based on an ambiguous commensality with invisible others. As a result, shamans oscillate constantly between spheres of intimacy, both visible and invisible. A place of power and transformation, the spirit world is rarely described by native interlocutors in an objective, detached way; rather, they depict it in terms of events and experiences. Instead of examining the formal qualities of accounts of the spirit world through a…
Accueillir les morts
In this article we consider the afterlife of the remains of unidentified migrants who have died while attempting to cross the Mediterranean from Albania and North Africa to Italy. Drawing on insights from long term, multi-sited field research, we outline paths taken by human remains and consider their multiple agencies and distributed personhood through the relational modalities with which they are symbolically and materially engaged at different…
Securitization, alterity, and the state
Focusing on the region surrounding the Maroni River, which forms the border between Suriname and French Guiana, we examine how relations between different state and non-state social groups are articulated in terms of security. The region is characterised by multiple "borders" and frontiers of various kinds, the state boundary having the features of an interface or contact zone. Several key collectivities meet in this border zone: native Amazonian…
Un corps en mouvement
Un corps en mouvement : parenté, ' diffusion de l'influence ' et transformations corporelles dans les fêtes de bière tirio, Amazonie du Nord-Est. Cet article est une analyse des relations sociales établies entre les corps lors des célébrations collectives que les Tirio organisent régulièrement dans leurs villages du Sud du Surinam. Les villages auxquels on se réfère sont des structures relativement récentes et sont caractérisés par la sédentarité…
Strange Enemies
Happy with the Enemy
This article is based on fieldwork among a Central Carib people known as the Trio, who have for the past 40 years lived alongside their former enemies in large sedentary villages in southern Suriname. The article analyses the relations that have been established and nurtured between people, particularly those of distant affines, at times of communal celebrations such as beer feasts, with a particular focus on intersubjectivity. As the frequency a…
The Wealth of the Body
Esse artigo è uma analise das relações que os Tiriyó (Suriname) tem desenvolvido com o comercio, os objetos, e com as pessoas não-ameríndias com as quais eles praticam trocas de objetos manufaturados. Apresento o comercio desde uma perspectiva ameríndia da socialidade, focalizando-me sobre as relações entre pessoas. Nesse artigo, apresento uma analise do comercio no contexto de uma discussão mais amplia sobre noções de pessoa, de corpo e de mater…
Animism in rainforest and tundra
Amazonia and Siberia, classic regions of shamanism, have long challenged 'western' understandings of man's place in the world. By exploring the social relations between humans and non-human entities credited with human-like personhood (not only animals and plants, but also 'things' such as artifacts, trade items, or mineral resources) from a comparative perspective, this volume offers valuable insights into the constitutions of humanity and perso…
Securitization, alterity, and the state
Focusing on the region surrounding the Maroni River, which forms the border between Suriname and French Guiana, we examine how relations between different state and non-state social groups are articulated in terms of security. The region is characterised by multiple "borders" and frontiers of various kinds, the state boundary having the features of an interface or contact zone. Several key collectivities meet in this border zone: native Amazonian…
First Contacts, Slavery and Kinship in North-Eastern Amazonia
The Trio, Wayana and Akuriyo are Carib-speaking Amerindians of the border regions of Brazil, southern Suriname and southern French Guiana. 1 We have carried out fi eld research since 2003 in southern Suriname, in a predominantly Trio village shared with a number of Wayana and most of the surviving Akuriyo.A relationship of asymmetry has evolved between the Trio and Akuriyo since the late 1960s, although arguably from a native point of view these …
Ownership and Nurture
The first book to address the classic anthropological theme of property through the ethnography of Amazonia, Ownership and Nurture sets new and challenging terms for anthropological debates about the region and about property in general. Property and ownership have special significance and carry specific meanings in Amazonia, which has been portrayed as the antithesis of Western, property-based, civilization. Through carefully constructed studies…
Narratives of the Invisible
Shamanic knowledge is based on an ambiguous commensality with invisible others. As a result, shamans oscillate constantly between spheres of intimacy, both visible and invisible. A place of power and transformation, the spirit world is rarely described by native interlocutors in an objective, detached way; rather, they depict it in terms of events and experiences. Instead of examining the formal qualities of accounts of the spirit world through a…
Giving Birth at Europe's Door
Shifting vulnerabilities
The reproductive care of pregnant migrants entering the European Union via its Mediterranean borders represents an under-examined topic, despite a growing scholarly emphasis on female migrants and the gendered aspects of migration in the past three decades. This article uses ethnographic data gathered in Greece, Italy, and Spain to examine pregnant migrants' experiences of crossing, first reception, and reproductive care. We discuss our findings …
Temporalities of emergency
In Greece, Italy, and Spain, austerity policies combined with the structural density of migration flows have had concrete social and material manifestations in the delivery of public health care. Through our ethnographic case studies in Lampedusa and southeastern Sicily, Melilla, and Athens, we examine the maternity care offered to migrant patients in the midst and the aftermath of the so-called "migration crisis" in state and non-state structure…
Midwifes and Mothers
Accueillir les morts
In this article we consider the afterlife of the remains of unidentified migrants who have died while attempting to cross the Mediterranean from Albania and North Africa to Italy. Drawing on insights from long term, multi-sited field research, we outline paths taken by human remains and consider their multiple agencies and distributed personhood through the relational modalities with which they are symbolically and materially engaged at different…
Migrant Hospitalities in the Mediterranean
“This book offers a fresh view on hospitality, inviting us to rethink and rearticulate decades-long debates on migration and hospitality." —Nataša Gregorič Bon, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Re
Migrant Hospitalities in the Mediterranean
Hosting the Dead
In this chapter we consider the afterlife of the remains of unidentified migrants who have died while attempting to cross the Mediterranean from Albania and North Africa to Italy. Drawing on insights from long-term, multi-sited field research, we outline paths taken by human remains and consider their multiple agencies and distributed personhood through the relational modalities with which they are symbolically and materially engaged at different…
Chapter 1. The Making of Christian Bodies
Chapter 5 Narratives of the Invisible Autobiography, Kinship, and Alterity in Native Amazonia
Chapter 9 Humanity, Personhood and Transformability in Northern Amazonia
CHAPTER 2 First Contacts, Slavery and Kinship in North-Eastern Amazonia
The first book to address the classic anthropological theme of property through the ethnography of Amazonia, Ownership and Nurture sets new and challenging terms for anthropological debates about the region and about property in general. Property and ownership have special significance and carry specific meanings in Amazonia, which has been portrayed as the antithesis of Western, property-based, civilization. Through carefully constructed studies…
Nurturing the Other
Combining archival research, oral history and long-term ethnography, this book studies relations between Amerindians and outsiders, such as American missionaries, through a series of contact expeditions that led to the 'pacification' of three native Amazonian groups in Suriname and French Guiana. The author examines and contrasts Amerindian and non-Amerindian views on this process of social transformation through the lens of the body, notions of …
Nurturing the Other
Combining archival research, oral history, and long-term ethnography, Nurturing the Other studies relations between Amerindians and outsiders, such as American missionaries, through a series of contact expeditions that led to the 'pacification' of three native Amazonian groups in Suriname and French Guiana: the Wayana, Trio, and Akuriyo. Vanessa Grotti examines and contrasts Amerindian and non-Amerindian views on this process of social transforma…
The water eaters
Coastal areas are critical zones where multiple dynamic ecological and human processes meet, both concentrating and confounding human efforts to control nature. Rising sea levels have become emblematic of the effects of climate change. But in delta landscapes with extensive land reclamation, the risk of flooding derives from multiple factors whose evolution poses additional challenges. Focusing on the fallout of major floods in Romagna, on Italy'…
Sociology (17 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (13 works) · Geography (11 works) · Amazon rainforest (9 works) · Anthropology (9 works) · History (9 works) · Ecology (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Biology (7 works)