Giulio Angioni


Giulio Angioni was an Italian writer and anthropologist.

Biography

Angioni was a leading Italian anthropologist, professor at the University of Cagliari and fellow of St Antony's College of the University of Oxford. He is the author of about twenty books of fiction and a dozen volumes of essays in anthropology.
In his anthropological essays, Angioni places the variety of forms of the human life in a dimension of maximum amplitude of time and space, starting from the anthropopoietic value of doing, saying, thinking and feeling as interrelated dimensions of human 'nature', which here is understood as characterized by culture, i.e. the human ability of continuous learning. In particular Angioni criticizes two western clichés: the superiority of speech as a solely human feature, and the separateness of the aesthetic dimension from the rest of life.
Best known as a writer, Angioni is considered, along with Sergio Atzeni and Salvatore Mannuzzu, to have been one of the initiators of a so-called Sardinian Literary Spring, the Sardinian narrative of today in the European arena, which followed the works of individual prominent figures such as Grazia Deledda, Emilio Lussu, Giuseppe Dessì, Gavino Ledda, Salvatore Satta.
The best novels of Angioni are considered to be Le fiamme di Toledo, Assandira, Doppio cielo, L'oro di Fraus. His poetic works in Sardinian language and Italian came later in his career.

Literary works

  • L'oro di Fraus
  • Il sale sulla ferita, finalist at the Premio Viareggio 1990
  • Una ignota compagnia, finalist at the Premio Viareggio 1992
  • La casa della palma
  • Millant'anni
  • Il mare intorno
  • Assandira
  • Alba dei giorni bui, Premio Dessi 2005
  • Le fiamme di Toledo, Premio Corrado Alvaro 2006, Premio Mondello 2006
  • La pelle intera
  • Afa
  • Gabbiani sul Carso
  • Doppio cielo
  • ''Sulla faccia della terra''

    Essays

  • Ethnic Groups, in Journal of the Europeanists:
  • Tre saggi sull'antropologia dell'età coloniale, Flaccovio 1973
  • Sa Laurera: Il lavoro contadino in Sardegna, Edes 1976 e Il Maestrale 2005:
  • Il sapere della mano: saggi di antroplogia del lavoro, Sellerio 1986
  • Pane e formaggio e altre cose di Sardegna, Zonza 2000
  • Fare dire sentire. L'identico e il diverso nelle culture, Il Maestrale 2011
  • Doing, thinking, saying, in Nature knowledge, Berghahn Books 2004
  • On Agro-Pastoral Space in Sardinia, in Fabietti & Salzman, The Anthropology of Tribal and Peasant Pastoral Societies. Social Cohesion and Fragmentation, 343–350, Como-Pavia, Ibis 1996.

    Miscellaneous

  • Tempus
  • Il dito alzato
  • ''Oremari''