A Testa
Biographic Data
| ID | 41295 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Testa |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Testa |
| SIGNATURE | TESTA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Charles University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4060-651X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Re-enchantment’ and religious change in former socialist Europe
This essay presents the concept of 're-enchantment' as a useful heuristic tool to identify, analyse, and explain new forms of religious change in contemporary Central-Eastern and Eastern Europe.It seeks to understand new religious and 'spiritual' configurations in an area and in a period known as 'post-socialist'.It also attempts to map out the historical conditions structuring both patterns of religious change and scholarly output on the subject…
Reconfigurando a noção de tradição na Europa: Uma Introdução Ao Tema
completar
Réponse d'Alessandro Testa à Laurent-Sébastien Fournier à propos du compte rendu sur l'ouvrage Rituality and Social (Dis)order , 2020, paru dans Ethnologie française , 2022, 52 (3): 550 À 552
Au cours des dernières décennies, des ONG internationales ont développé dans les pays dits du « Sud » des politiques d’émancipation fondées sur une lecture universalisante des pratiques et des identités de genre et de sexualité qui ne se conforment pas aux normes conventionnelles. Mais certains critiques soutiennent que, loin d’avoir un effet libératoire, ces politiques induisent de nouvelles formes de répression. Aux îles Tonga, tous les projets…
Re-thinking the concept of re-enchantment in Central-Eastern Europe
This article discusses four different concepts: disenchantment, secularisation, post-secularism, and re-enchantment, analysing their theoretical entanglements and problematising their applicability to recent and contemporary social realities in formerly socialist Europe. It also offers a conceptual tuning of re-enchantment in particular, basing it on both empirical evidence as well as on readings from the now rather rich scholarly literature that…
The Anthropology of Cultural Heritage in Europe: A Brief Genealogy from the Desk (1970–2020) and Empirical Observations from the Field (2010–2020)
This article offers an overview of the origins and development of the anthropology of cultural heritage in Europe, tracing its main genealogical lineages stemming from kindred disciplines and methods in a comparative fashion. This brief genealogy is then complemented by a set of considerations and observations about the author’s personal ethnographic explorations of various European countries and regions, again with the aim of fruitful comparison…
Where have the gatherings gone? Reweaving the social fabric in the time of pandemic and interpersonal distancing
Hermes Explains: Thirty Questions about Western Esotericism, edited by Wouter Hanegraaff, Peter Forshaw, and Marco Pasi
Reconfiguring Tradition(s) in Europe: An Introduction to the Special Issue
Tradition" has been a key concept and object of European ethnology from the foundation of the discipline all the way to intangible cultural heritage policies today. A focus has been given to the cultural and social circulations and permutations affecting traditional facts and has shown the plasticity of "traditions" to (ever-)changing social conditions. Understood as "uses of the past", these mainly political and sociological understandings of wh…
Intertwining Processes of Reconfiguring Tradition: Three European Case Studies
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Ethnology’s Hot Notion? A Discussion Forum on How to Return to "Tradition" Today
After the publication of Hobsbawm and Ranger’s groundbreaking The Invention of Tradition and ten years after Noyes’ essay, Tradition: Three Traditions, what do we, as specialists of European cultures, have to say about “tradition”? This forum invites a selection of scholars coming from various thematic fields and countries to think about the concept of tradition, considered as one of our first conceptual tools and ethnographic objects of investig…
Problematising Boundaries and ‘Hierarchies of Knowledge’ within European Anthropologies
Is European anthropology the product of a colonialist plot to gain intellectual hegemony? Was the epistemic posture of its main representatives in the past one of crypto-imperialism aimed at – and based upon – power, in the attempt to climb up the ‘hierarchy of knowledge’ and subjugate from its peak minor traditions of study? How can we think about the genealogy of Euro-anthropology (and its future progress) without necessarily capitulating to th…
Remains of the Soviet Past in Estonia
The FRINGE series explores the roles that complexity, ambivalence and immeasurability play in social and cultural phenomena.A cross-disciplinary initiative bringing together researchers from the humanities, social sciences and area studies, the series examines how seemingly opposed notions such as centrality and marginality, clarity and ambiguity, can shift and converge when embedded in everyday practices
Fertility’ and the Carnival 2: Popular Frazerism and the Reconfiguration of Tradition in Europe Today
This article examines European festive culture through the lens of two ethnographic case studies of carnivals, conducted in Italy and the Czech Republic. The article analyses processes of meaning construction, cultural circulation, and reconfiguration of local traditions that are currently widely at work in rural and marginal European contexts. It explains why I propose to name the cultural complex shaped by those processes 'popular Frazerism'. T…
Fertility’ and the Carnival 1: Symbolic Effectiveness, Emic Beliefs, and the Re-enchantment of Europe
This article examines European festive culture through the lens of two ethnographic case studies of carnivals, conducted in Italy and the Czech Republic, respectively. The article considers the general problem of studying festivals in Europe today, and then focuses on the emic beliefs related to the ‘ritual magical’ acts of these two carnivals, their social relevance, their effectiveness, and the meanings and functions to which they are bound tod…
Rethinking Euro-anthropology: Part three. Early career scholars forum
Droit de réponse
Note de lecture
Memorylands: Heritage and identity in Europe today by Macdonald, Sharon
Rethinking the Festival: Power and Politics
This article discusses several recent approaches to the study of festivals and points out in which ways certain theories of power can be fruitfully applied to better interpret both historical and contemporary festivals. The structure of the text is tripartite: in the first part, I present a brief, critical history of the studies in order to construct a genealogy of the category of festival (and of its criticism); in the second part, I discuss cer…
Preferences towards sex education and information from an ethnically diverse sample of young people
This paper reports sex education preferences from an ethnically diverse sample of 3007 15–18 year olds. Findings are presented on preferred topics, where and from whom young people would like to receive this information. Preferences were centred around learning more about sexual behaviour and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in particular, and receiving this at school from someone ‘professional’ and of similar age. Females showed a greater …
Political Repression, Democratization and Civil Conflict in Post-Independence Algeria
This article applies the inverted U-shape theory to Algeria's experience with political repression, democratization and civil conflict. It aims to provide insights into Algeria that other theoretical approaches, such as the clash of civilization, do not. The main findings point to the central role of economic dissatisfaction in promoting political change (democratization) as well as political instability (armed conflict
The Economic Causes of Algeria's Political Violence
Fertility’ and the Carnival 1: Symbolic Effectiveness, Emic Beliefs, and the Re-enchantment of Europe
This article examines European festive culture through the lens of two ethnographic case studies of carnivals, conducted in Italy and the Czech Republic, respectively. The article considers the general problem of studying festivals in Europe today, and then focuses on the emic beliefs related to the ‘ritual magical’ acts of these two carnivals, their social relevance, their effectiveness, and the meanings and functions to which they are bound tod…
Fertility’ and the Carnival 2: Popular Frazerism and the Reconfiguration of Tradition in Europe Today
This article examines European festive culture through the lens of two ethnographic case studies of carnivals, conducted in Italy and the Czech Republic. The article analyses processes of meaning construction, cultural circulation, and reconfiguration of local traditions that are currently widely at work in rural and marginal European contexts. It explains why I propose to name the cultural complex shaped by those processes 'popular Frazerism'. T…
Rethinking the Festival: Power and Politics
This article discusses several recent approaches to the study of festivals and points out in which ways certain theories of power can be fruitfully applied to better interpret both historical and contemporary festivals. The structure of the text is tripartite: in the first part, I present a brief, critical history of the studies in order to construct a genealogy of the category of festival (and of its criticism); in the second part, I discuss cer…
Political Repression, Democratization and Civil Conflict in Post-Independence Algeria
This article applies the inverted U-shape theory to Algeria's experience with political repression, democratization and civil conflict. It aims to provide insights into Algeria that other theoretical approaches, such as the clash of civilization, do not. The main findings point to the central role of economic dissatisfaction in promoting political change (democratization) as well as political instability (armed conflict
Reconfiguring Tradition(s) in Europe: An Introduction to the Special Issue
Tradition" has been a key concept and object of European ethnology from the foundation of the discipline all the way to intangible cultural heritage policies today. A focus has been given to the cultural and social circulations and permutations affecting traditional facts and has shown the plasticity of "traditions" to (ever-)changing social conditions. Understood as "uses of the past", these mainly political and sociological understandings of wh…
Rethinking Euro-anthropology: Part three. Early career scholars forum
The Anthropology of Cultural Heritage in Europe: A Brief Genealogy from the Desk (1970–2020) and Empirical Observations from the Field (2010–2020)
This article offers an overview of the origins and development of the anthropology of cultural heritage in Europe, tracing its main genealogical lineages stemming from kindred disciplines and methods in a comparative fashion. This brief genealogy is then complemented by a set of considerations and observations about the author’s personal ethnographic explorations of various European countries and regions, again with the aim of fruitful comparison…
Intertwining Processes of Reconfiguring Tradition: Three European Case Studies
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Re-enchantment’ and religious change in former socialist Europe
This essay presents the concept of 're-enchantment' as a useful heuristic tool to identify, analyse, and explain new forms of religious change in contemporary Central-Eastern and Eastern Europe.It seeks to understand new religious and 'spiritual' configurations in an area and in a period known as 'post-socialist'.It also attempts to map out the historical conditions structuring both patterns of religious change and scholarly output on the subject…
Re-thinking the concept of re-enchantment in Central-Eastern Europe
This article discusses four different concepts: disenchantment, secularisation, post-secularism, and re-enchantment, analysing their theoretical entanglements and problematising their applicability to recent and contemporary social realities in formerly socialist Europe. It also offers a conceptual tuning of re-enchantment in particular, basing it on both empirical evidence as well as on readings from the now rather rich scholarly literature that…
Ethnology’s Hot Notion? A Discussion Forum on How to Return to "Tradition" Today
After the publication of Hobsbawm and Ranger’s groundbreaking The Invention of Tradition and ten years after Noyes’ essay, Tradition: Three Traditions, what do we, as specialists of European cultures, have to say about “tradition”? This forum invites a selection of scholars coming from various thematic fields and countries to think about the concept of tradition, considered as one of our first conceptual tools and ethnographic objects of investig…
Memorylands: Heritage and identity in Europe today by Macdonald, Sharon
The Economic Causes of Algeria's Political Violence
The Economic Causes of Algeria's Political Violence
Political Repression, Democratization and Civil Conflict in Post-Independence Algeria
This article applies the inverted U-shape theory to Algeria's experience with political repression, democratization and civil conflict. It aims to provide insights into Algeria that other theoretical approaches, such as the clash of civilization, do not. The main findings point to the central role of economic dissatisfaction in promoting political change (democratization) as well as political instability (armed conflict
Preferences towards sex education and information from an ethnically diverse sample of young people
This paper reports sex education preferences from an ethnically diverse sample of 3007 15–18 year olds. Findings are presented on preferred topics, where and from whom young people would like to receive this information. Preferences were centred around learning more about sexual behaviour and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in particular, and receiving this at school from someone ‘professional’ and of similar age. Females showed a greater …
Memorylands: Heritage and identity in Europe today by Macdonald, Sharon
Rethinking the Festival: Power and Politics
This article discusses several recent approaches to the study of festivals and points out in which ways certain theories of power can be fruitfully applied to better interpret both historical and contemporary festivals. The structure of the text is tripartite: in the first part, I present a brief, critical history of the studies in order to construct a genealogy of the category of festival (and of its criticism); in the second part, I discuss cer…
Rethinking Euro-anthropology: Part three. Early career scholars forum
Droit de réponse
Note de lecture
Fertility’ and the Carnival 2: Popular Frazerism and the Reconfiguration of Tradition in Europe Today
This article examines European festive culture through the lens of two ethnographic case studies of carnivals, conducted in Italy and the Czech Republic. The article analyses processes of meaning construction, cultural circulation, and reconfiguration of local traditions that are currently widely at work in rural and marginal European contexts. It explains why I propose to name the cultural complex shaped by those processes 'popular Frazerism'. T…
Fertility’ and the Carnival 1: Symbolic Effectiveness, Emic Beliefs, and the Re-enchantment of Europe
This article examines European festive culture through the lens of two ethnographic case studies of carnivals, conducted in Italy and the Czech Republic, respectively. The article considers the general problem of studying festivals in Europe today, and then focuses on the emic beliefs related to the ‘ritual magical’ acts of these two carnivals, their social relevance, their effectiveness, and the meanings and functions to which they are bound tod…
Remains of the Soviet Past in Estonia
The FRINGE series explores the roles that complexity, ambivalence and immeasurability play in social and cultural phenomena.A cross-disciplinary initiative bringing together researchers from the humanities, social sciences and area studies, the series examines how seemingly opposed notions such as centrality and marginality, clarity and ambiguity, can shift and converge when embedded in everyday practices
Where have the gatherings gone? Reweaving the social fabric in the time of pandemic and interpersonal distancing
Hermes Explains: Thirty Questions about Western Esotericism, edited by Wouter Hanegraaff, Peter Forshaw, and Marco Pasi
Reconfiguring Tradition(s) in Europe: An Introduction to the Special Issue
Tradition" has been a key concept and object of European ethnology from the foundation of the discipline all the way to intangible cultural heritage policies today. A focus has been given to the cultural and social circulations and permutations affecting traditional facts and has shown the plasticity of "traditions" to (ever-)changing social conditions. Understood as "uses of the past", these mainly political and sociological understandings of wh…
Intertwining Processes of Reconfiguring Tradition: Three European Case Studies
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Ethnology’s Hot Notion? A Discussion Forum on How to Return to "Tradition" Today
After the publication of Hobsbawm and Ranger’s groundbreaking The Invention of Tradition and ten years after Noyes’ essay, Tradition: Three Traditions, what do we, as specialists of European cultures, have to say about “tradition”? This forum invites a selection of scholars coming from various thematic fields and countries to think about the concept of tradition, considered as one of our first conceptual tools and ethnographic objects of investig…
Problematising Boundaries and ‘Hierarchies of Knowledge’ within European Anthropologies
Is European anthropology the product of a colonialist plot to gain intellectual hegemony? Was the epistemic posture of its main representatives in the past one of crypto-imperialism aimed at – and based upon – power, in the attempt to climb up the ‘hierarchy of knowledge’ and subjugate from its peak minor traditions of study? How can we think about the genealogy of Euro-anthropology (and its future progress) without necessarily capitulating to th…
The Anthropology of Cultural Heritage in Europe: A Brief Genealogy from the Desk (1970–2020) and Empirical Observations from the Field (2010–2020)
This article offers an overview of the origins and development of the anthropology of cultural heritage in Europe, tracing its main genealogical lineages stemming from kindred disciplines and methods in a comparative fashion. This brief genealogy is then complemented by a set of considerations and observations about the author’s personal ethnographic explorations of various European countries and regions, again with the aim of fruitful comparison…
Re-thinking the concept of re-enchantment in Central-Eastern Europe
This article discusses four different concepts: disenchantment, secularisation, post-secularism, and re-enchantment, analysing their theoretical entanglements and problematising their applicability to recent and contemporary social realities in formerly socialist Europe. It also offers a conceptual tuning of re-enchantment in particular, basing it on both empirical evidence as well as on readings from the now rather rich scholarly literature that…
Re-enchantment’ and religious change in former socialist Europe
This essay presents the concept of 're-enchantment' as a useful heuristic tool to identify, analyse, and explain new forms of religious change in contemporary Central-Eastern and Eastern Europe.It seeks to understand new religious and 'spiritual' configurations in an area and in a period known as 'post-socialist'.It also attempts to map out the historical conditions structuring both patterns of religious change and scholarly output on the subject…
Reconfigurando a noção de tradição na Europa: Uma Introdução Ao Tema
completar
Réponse d'Alessandro Testa à Laurent-Sébastien Fournier à propos du compte rendu sur l'ouvrage Rituality and Social (Dis)order , 2020, paru dans Ethnologie française , 2022, 52 (3): 550 À 552
Au cours des dernières décennies, des ONG internationales ont développé dans les pays dits du « Sud » des politiques d’émancipation fondées sur une lecture universalisante des pratiques et des identités de genre et de sexualité qui ne se conforment pas aux normes conventionnelles. Mais certains critiques soutiennent que, loin d’avoir un effet libératoire, ces politiques induisent de nouvelles formes de répression. Aux îles Tonga, tous les projets…
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