C Giordano

Biographic Data

ID16937
NAMEC Giordano
GIVEN NAMESC
FAMILY NAMEGiordano
SIGNATUREGIORDANO C
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Fribourg
ORCID0000-0001-7703-9825
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS37
TOTAL CITATIONS23
AUTHOR COUNT37
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1975
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX3

  • Autobiographies or Portraits? Methodological Differences in Qualitative Social Research

    Open AccessC GiordanoARTICLEEastern European Countryside2024

    The author considers methodological differences in the use of autobiographies. However, while doing so, he does not focus on technical differences in the ap- plication of the method but asks about cognitive possibilities that come (or not) with certain methodological tools. It is through this perspective (epistemological capacity of theory and empirical knowledge) that the author discusses the differ- ence between two very close and yet so separa…

  • Are There Nonproselytizing Methods for Planting New Churches in Muslim Lands

    Open AccessC GiordanoARTICLEInternational Bulletin of Mission…2022

    This article offers an alternative to Christian witness and development in Muslim-majority nations. It reviews twelve Ibero-American projects in such nations in which believers have found ways to (1) live out their faith in a transparent but nonthreatening way, (2) communicate a holistic gospel through various projects, (3) evangelize in a manner that is open, contextualized, and nonproselytizing, (4) contribute to social holistic transformation,…

  • Chapter 13 Afterword – Under the Aegis of Anthropology: Blazing New Trails

    C GiordanoCHAPTER2022

  • Politinis korektiškumas: Antropologinė „geradarystės“ forma

    Open AccessC GiordanoARTICLELietuvos etnologija / Lithuanian…2019References: 1

    Jonathanas Friedmanas naująja savo knyga Politicamente corretto. Il conformismo morale come regime (Friedman 2018), pasitelkęs kritinį mąstymą su dažnu poleminiu intarpu, ir vėl pataikė tiesiai į dešimtuką. Tiesą sakant, jis įtikinamai apibūdina ideologinei ir politinei praktikai būdingą veidmainystę, kurią aš vadinu „geradaryste“ ir kuri, kaip netrukus pamatysime, yra ypač išvešėjusi šių dienų antropologijoje. J. Friedmanas taikliai ir aiškiai s…

  • Sicily

    Open AccessC GiordanoARTICLEAnthropological Journal of…2018

    On the basis of their shared research and teaching on Sicily since the 1970s, the author contrasts his own Mediterraneanist approach and German scholar Ina-Maria Greverus’ utopian view of the European south as an outstanding experience of an intellectual encounter. Respectful debates of disputatious positions are a rare gift in the academic world of today

  • Utopia and Neoliberalism: Ethnographies of Rural Spaces

    Open AccessC GiordanoARTICLEArxiu d Etnografia de Catalunya2018

    Book review: Horáková, H.; Boscoboinik, A.; Smith, R. (eds.) (2018) Utopia and Neoliberalism: Ethnographies of Rural Spaces, Berlin: Lit-Verlag

  • Political correctness: A form of anthropological 'do-goodism

    Open AccessC GiordanoARTICLEANUAC2018

    Comment on Jonathan Friedman, Politicamente corretto. Il conformismo morale come regime, edited by Piero Zanini, translated by Francesca Nicola and Piero Zanini, Milano, Meltemi, 2018, pp. 348

  • Nation

    Open AccessC GiordanoARTICLEAnthropen2017

    Cet article analyse les différentes définitions de la nation mais également la manière dont elle est représentée et imaginée, d’une part en tant que modèle, mais aussi en tant qu’entité pouvant être subjective et individualiste ou bien objective et collective. En tant qu’objet politique, le concept de nation est également mobilisé de diverses manières, aussi bien pour des revendications régionales que mondiales

  • Multiculturalisme

    Open AccessC GiordanoARTICLEAnthropen2017

    Le multiculturalisme n’est pas une stratégie universalisable pas plus qu’il n’est réductible à un modèle unique. Cet article présente le multiculturalisme comme un ensemble de solutions variées dans leur manière de gérer la diversité dans des sociétés ethniquement et culturellement plurielles. Il s’agit ici d’une analyse comparative pointant les défauts et les difficultés autour de ce concept, mais aussi certains avantages importants

  • L’organisation sociale d’une diaspora urbaine: Corporations, factions et réseaux chez les Sino-Malaisiens de Penang

    C Giordano, Nicole G AlbertARTICLEDiogène2016

  • Honour between Different Cultures and Legal Systems: Social Status, Reputation, Struggles for Recognition

    Open AccessC GiordanoARTICLEEuropean Review2016Cited by: 1References: 5

    This article pursues a comparative approach to honour, a choice determined not only by the fact that anthropology, with regard to other disciplines, has striven to build its specificity on comparative analysis ever since its beginnings in the nineteenth century. A further reason is to steer clear of methodological nationalism, 1 i.e. to sidestep forms of Orientalism. 2 The point, therefore, is to avoid the pitfall by which issues of honour and it…

  • The Social Organization of an Urban Diaspora: Corporate Groups, Factions and Networks amongst Penang's Malaysian-Chinese

    Open AccessC GiordanoARTICLEDiogenes2016References: 7

    The social organization of the Chinese diaspora in Malaysia has emerged as a very diversified phenomenon so that it is hard to speak of a coherent social and cultural community. Starting from the case of George Town (Penang), a port city once part of the British Empire and subsequently incorporated in present-day Malaysia, the article will illustrate the various forms of social organization developed by the Chinese in the longue durée. The analys…

  • Europe: Sociocultural Overview

    Open AccessC GiordanoCHAPTERInternational Encyclopedia of the…2015

  • Mélanges en l’honneur de Mondher Kilani

    C GiordanoCHAPTERMélanges en l’honneur de Mondher…2015

  • Epilogue â The Dwindling Cultural and Linguistic Diversity of Southeast Asian Societies

    C GiordanoCHAPTERLanguage, Education and…2014

  • Anthropology Meets History

    Open AccessC GiordanoARTICLEAnthropological Journal of…2012

    This article analyses the difficult relation between anthropology and history. The point, therefore, is to show how anthropology conceptualises the past differently from history as a discipline. Beginning with the differences between anthropology and history in terms of the concept of time, the article highlights that while for history time is concrete, objective and exogenous to human beings, for anthropology it is characterised by its being con…

  • Childhood and citizenship: A political anthropologist's candid observations on children's exclusion and protection

    C GiordanoARTICLEPaedagogica Historica2010

    The political anthropologist's point of view will certainly emerge in this endnote. It thus may not be able to capture the significant and complex theoretic and empirical richness of the articles i

  • Multiple Modernities in Bulgaria: Social Strategies of Capitalist Entrepreneurs in the Agrarian Sector

    Open AccessC GiordanoARTICLEEastern European Countryside2010

    Multiple Modernities in Bulgaria: Social Strategies of Capitalist Entrepreneurs in the Agrarian Sector The article focuses on trust/mistrust relations, strategies of cooperation, and emerging conflicts in the period of establishing capitalist reforms in Bulgaria after 1989. In this frame, trust building, as a key challenge for a successful transformation process, is analysed as a premise for cooperation and social cohesion in the process of refor…

  • Viduržemio garbės samprata ir tai, kas už jos. Socialinis reputacijos valdymas viešojoje srityje

    Open AccessC GiordanoARTICLESociologija Mintis ir veiksmas2005

    This article aims at reconstructing the logic of honor by analyzing the classic example of Mediterranean societies, which on several occasions have been labeled, rightly or wrongly, “honor and shame societies”. Consequently, we will show that honor strengthens the hierarchic order and class structure of these societies. And, far more important, we will highlight that honor is not so much a moral code as rather a language and set of rational socia…

  • The Body Impolitic: Artisans and Artifice in the Global Hierarchy of Value

    Open AccessC GiordanoREVIEWAmerican Anthropologist2005

  • Governing ethnic diversity in rainbow nations

    Open AccessC GiordanoARTICLEFocaal2004Cited by: 2

    The present article analyzes how, after its independence in 1957, Malaysia has been able to manage the difficult coexistence among its three numerically most relevant ethnic groups (Malay, Chinese and Indian). This complex situation, a legacy of the British colonial-like plural society, has been governed via a specific model of multi-racial citizenship, which is significantly unlike the Western European ones in which, as a rule, the equivalence b…

  • Tarp Rygos ir Penango. Pilietybės sąvokos ir kultūrinių skirtumų pripažinimas Latvijoje ir Malaizijoje

    Open AccessC GiordanoARTICLESociologija Mintis ir veiksmas2003

    Citizenship is undoubtedly one of the most fundamental concrete abstractions produced by philosophers and jurists. It is particularly interesting for sociologists and anthropologists as a phenomenon that structures collective representations and social relations amongst individuals and groups. In other words, social science is concerned with citizenship mainly as an imagined construction that essentializes in social life. Though not a complete su…

  • Ruralité et nation en Europe centrale et orientale

    C GiordanoARTICLEÉtudes rurales2002Cited by: 2References: 4

    Partant de la constatation que les nations d'Europe centrale et orientale se sont organisées politiquement selon le principe de la Staatsnation et ont donc adopté des modèles d'État national venus de l'Europe occidentale et plus spécifiquement d'Allemagne et de France, l'article cherche à montrer que les appartenances se sont bâties sur l'ethnicité et la territorialité. Parce que la ruralité avec son organisation sociale spécifique (la communauté…

  • Liberi e Svizzeri: L'identité tessinoise ou la production sociale de la dialectique

    C GiordanoARTICLEEthnologie française2002References: 4

    Le Tessin représente l'unique canton de la Suisse à grande majorité italophone. La construction de l'identité se base essentiellement sur la notion d'« italianité » et sur celle de « helvéticité ». Il s'agit en réalité d'une « double appartenance », et l'article analyse les différents modes de production sociale de l'ambivalence au plan des discours (historiques, linguistiques, folkloriques, politiques, rituels et visuels) et des pratiques social…

  • La globalisation ambiguë: Avant-propos

    Edouard Conte, C Giordano et al.ARTICLEÉtudes rurales2002Cited by: 3References: 2

    Deux transformations sociopolitiques majeures ont marqué l'Europe depuis la fin des années quatre-vingt. D'une part des mouvements migratoires massifs de caractère économique et politique, allant des « périphéries » méridionales vers les centres du Nord. D'autre part l'implosion de vieux États et l'apparition de nouveaux sujets politiques dans la partie centrale et orientale du Vieux Continent. Depuis lors, le thème des appartenances a connu dans…