Curriculum Vitae
Personal information
First name(s) / Surname(s)
Professional address
Lavinia Contini
Department of Anthropology – SAAST, Via Giolitti 21/E 10123 Torino (Italy)
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Date of birth
Gender
Experience in the field of
research
Field of research
[email protected]
Italian
17/03/1985
Female
Phd Student, University of Turin (Italy)
Start date: 1st January 2012
Social and Cultural Anthropology / Anthropology of Religions
PhD Thesis Title “Ethnology of the Americas: religions, conflicts and human rights”
List of publications (please fill
out the above field)
Supervisors
Prof. Enrico Comba, University of Turin (Italy)
Further experiences in the
field of research:
Research and study periods
abroad
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Fieldwork research in Argentina among the Wichì people of the Gran Chaco
region, scholarship and project of the University of Bologna (Italy)
May - July 2010
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Erasmus Programme at the Universidade de Coimbra (Portugal), 2 year of
Master in Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, University of Bologna (Italy)
September 2008 – July 2009
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Civic Museum of Crema (Italy)
January 2010 - January 2012;
Ancient History Department, University of Bologna (Italy)
September 2007 - July 2008
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Work experiences:
Institution, association or
enterprise (please specify)
Position held
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Main activities and
responsibilities
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Collaborator of the Insula Fulcheria annual review and member of the
Anthropological Group (GAC);
Receptionist/Library
Planning and writing anthropological researches and articles about the local
culture and folklore;
Reception, users dossiers, information, library services
Education and training
Title of qualification awarded
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Master in Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology
September 2007 – March 2011
Bachelor in Anthropological Sciences
September 2004 – March 2008
Principal subjects/occupational Social and cultural anthropology and ethnology/ Religious studies/ Human rights/
skills covered Life histories and life stories/ Indigenous people/ Cultural transformation
Name and type of organisation University of Bologna
providing education and training
Grants, scholarships and
awards obtained
Scholarship for fieldwork research experience 2010, supervisor Prof.ssa Zelda A.
Franceschi, University of Bologna (Italy)
Language Skills
Mother tongue(s) Italian
Other language(s): written and English (advanced)
oral skills (basic, intermediate Spanish (advanced)
and advanced, please specify) Portuguese (advanced)
Additional Information
List of Publications
Papers presented, seminars and conferences:
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(accepted) 54 ICA International Congress of Americanists “Building dialogues
in the Americas”, Vienna (Austria): “Indigenous People and Christians: ethical
complexity and subjectivity in the religious encounter”
July 2012
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Conference “Ethnographical experiences: the fieldwork”, University of Bologna
(Italy): “The word of God and the word of Man: stories of religious life among
the Wichì”
April 2011
(2011), “Intrecciando culture: i giochi di filo tra etnologia e folklore” in Il gioco:
significati etnici e tradizioni locali, edited by Gruppo Antropologico Cremasco,
Crema: G&G editions.
(2010), “El fenómeno religioso: apuntes sobre identidad, conversión y misión” in
Archivos, n. 8, Buenos Aires: CIAFIC ediciones.
(2010), “Santa Lucia: gli occhi e la luce. Un viaggio mistico alla ricerca del divino” in
Santa Lucia mito, tradizione e devozione, edited by Gruppo Antropologico
Cremasco, Crema: G&G editions.
(2008), “Donne ed esperienza missionaria: una storia di vita”, extract from the
Bachelor Thesis, in Insula Fulcheria n. XXXVIII, annual review of the Civic Museum
of Crema.
Date, 01st March 2012