Fausto Barbagli
Biographic Data
| ID | 4045200 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fausto Barbagli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fausto |
| FAMILY NAME | Barbagli |
| SIGNATURE | BARBAGLI F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Museo Galileo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3369-6505 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Adu from Nias: How Sacred Figures Became Subsumed Into Idols by Missionaries and Anthropologists
This article focuses, for the first time, on the wooden sculptures of Nias (Adu) included in Elio Modigliani's collection conserved at the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology in Florence. Catalogued as «idols», Adu represent an opportunity to investigate how these objects were interpreted in the anthropological framework of Modigliani's time. They are an important case study for investigating two important issues. First, what impact did the impo…
The colonial face casts of Nello Puccioni: An emblematic case from Italy's fascist period
This article focuses, for the first time, on an in depth and systematic study of the face casts production of the Florentine anthropologist Nello Puccioni. The face casts are housed at the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology of the University of Florence. Puccioni took the face casts in the course of his expeditions to Somalia (1924 and 1935) and Libya (1928 and 1929) during the Italian colonial occupation in Africa. This collection represents a…
Objects from voyages of Exploration: The James Cook Collection in Florence
The Cook collection of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology in Florence includes objects belonging to the cultures of Polynesia, Melanesia and the North-West Coast of North America. The importance of these artifacts is increasingly recognized not only by curators, ethnologists and artists, but also by historians. In this contribution we retrace the history of its rediscovery in the 19th century, and the studies of the 20th century which confi…
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Objects from voyages of Exploration: The James Cook Collection in Florence
The Cook collection of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology in Florence includes objects belonging to the cultures of Polynesia, Melanesia and the North-West Coast of North America. The importance of these artifacts is increasingly recognized not only by curators, ethnologists and artists, but also by historians. In this contribution we retrace the history of its rediscovery in the 19th century, and the studies of the 20th century which confi…
The colonial face casts of Nello Puccioni: An emblematic case from Italy's fascist period
This article focuses, for the first time, on an in depth and systematic study of the face casts production of the Florentine anthropologist Nello Puccioni. The face casts are housed at the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology of the University of Florence. Puccioni took the face casts in the course of his expeditions to Somalia (1924 and 1935) and Libya (1928 and 1929) during the Italian colonial occupation in Africa. This collection represents a…
Adu from Nias: How Sacred Figures Became Subsumed Into Idols by Missionaries and Anthropologists
This article focuses, for the first time, on the wooden sculptures of Nias (Adu) included in Elio Modigliani's collection conserved at the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology in Florence. Catalogued as «idols», Adu represent an opportunity to investigate how these objects were interpreted in the anthropological framework of Modigliani's time. They are an important case study for investigating two important issues. First, what impact did the impo…
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