Andrea De Antoni
Biographic Data
| ID | 643413 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrea De Antoni |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrea |
| FAMILY NAME | De Antoni |
| SIGNATURE | DE ANTONI A |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6480-0790 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Affect
Affect refers to sensations and physiological shifts in intensity that may or may not formalise into conceptually distinct and collectively recognized feelings. Compared to emotions, which anthropologists see as feelings embedded in sociolinguistic concepts like love, anger, jealousy, han (Korean for sadness-grief), song (Ifaluk for justified anger), or hygge (Danish and Norwegian for cosiness), affects are conceived as more fluid. Although regis…
That Old Feeling: Entangling Traditional Symptoms and Experiences of Possession through Catholic Exorcism in Contemporary Italy
This anthropological study of the signs of possession viewed as “traditional” by Catholic exorcists and the affective experiences of demonic possession in contemporary Italy sheds light on how signs such as “aversion to the sacred” have been contextualized within the broader Catholic tradition and institutionalized in texts, regulations, and guidelines. Ethnographic data gathered through fieldwork shows how these affective symptoms become central…
‘She Talks to Angels
This chapter attempts to develop the foundations of a methodology for a comparative perspective on spirit possession and related experiences. I examine the emergence of the Archangel Metatron and his role in a Roman Catholic exorcism and in the life of Maria, a person possessed by the devil. A focus on how spirits emerge through possession offers a useful path to comparison and a practice-based approach to cosmological beings. I contend that crea…
Affect
A notion originally developed in social and cultural theory rather than in anthropology, affect has recently started being taken into consideration by various disciplines, as part of the broader project of investigating the entanglements involving the social, the biological, the material, and the cultural. Generally speaking, affect theory points at bodily capacities to affect and to be affected. According to Massumi, such capacities are conceive…
Feeling (with) Japan: Affective, sensory and material entanglements in the field
This introduction provides a literature review on the anthropology of the senses and affect, highlighting the theoretical and methodological issues, and pointing at the ideas of “affective practices” or “practices of feeling with the world” as possible solutions. Subsequently, it reviews the literature related to these topics focusing on Japan, showing existing gaps in research. Lastly, it provides an overview of the contributions, in order to se…
Affect
Affect refers to sensations and physiological shifts in intensity that may or may not formalise into conceptually distinct and collectively recognized feelings. Compared to emotions, which anthropologists see as feelings embedded in sociolinguistic concepts like love, anger, jealousy, han (Korean for sadness-grief), song (Ifaluk for justified anger), or hygge (Danish and Norwegian for cosiness), affects are conceived as more fluid. Although regis…
Affect
A notion originally developed in social and cultural theory rather than in anthropology, affect has recently started being taken into consideration by various disciplines, as part of the broader project of investigating the entanglements involving the social, the biological, the material, and the cultural. Generally speaking, affect theory points at bodily capacities to affect and to be affected. According to Massumi, such capacities are conceive…
Feeling (with) Japan: Affective, sensory and material entanglements in the field
This introduction provides a literature review on the anthropology of the senses and affect, highlighting the theoretical and methodological issues, and pointing at the ideas of “affective practices” or “practices of feeling with the world” as possible solutions. Subsequently, it reviews the literature related to these topics focusing on Japan, showing existing gaps in research. Lastly, it provides an overview of the contributions, in order to se…
‘She Talks to Angels
This chapter attempts to develop the foundations of a methodology for a comparative perspective on spirit possession and related experiences. I examine the emergence of the Archangel Metatron and his role in a Roman Catholic exorcism and in the life of Maria, a person possessed by the devil. A focus on how spirits emerge through possession offers a useful path to comparison and a practice-based approach to cosmological beings. I contend that crea…
That Old Feeling: Entangling Traditional Symptoms and Experiences of Possession through Catholic Exorcism in Contemporary Italy
This anthropological study of the signs of possession viewed as “traditional” by Catholic exorcists and the affective experiences of demonic possession in contemporary Italy sheds light on how signs such as “aversion to the sacred” have been contextualized within the broader Catholic tradition and institutionalized in texts, regulations, and guidelines. Ethnographic data gathered through fieldwork shows how these affective symptoms become central…
Affect
Affect refers to sensations and physiological shifts in intensity that may or may not formalise into conceptually distinct and collectively recognized feelings. Compared to emotions, which anthropologists see as feelings embedded in sociolinguistic concepts like love, anger, jealousy, han (Korean for sadness-grief), song (Ifaluk for justified anger), or hygge (Danish and Norwegian for cosiness), affects are conceived as more fluid. Although regis…
Anthropological Studies and Insights (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Feeling (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Art (2 works)