Giovanni Battista Bronzini

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Giovanni Battista Bronzini (born September 4, 1925 in Bari , † March 17, 2002 in Bari) was an Italian anthropologist and folklorist .

Life

Bronzini studied at the La Sapienza University in Rome and was a student of the ethnologist Paolo Toschi (1893–1974).

He became professor of cultural anthropology at the University of Bari and was editor of the scientific journal Lares from 1974 until his death .

Influenced by the works of the writer Carlo Levi and the poet Rocco Scotellaro , he investigated the rural world of his homeland and researched the magical- superstitious rituals, sayings and traditions of this society during the time of fascism in Italy in the 30s and 40s. Since it was founded in 1985, Bronzini was a board member of the non-profit Marino Piazzolla Foundation, which works to publish and maintain contemporary Italian and international literature and awards grants. Under Bronzini's leadership, texts by Amelia Rosselli , Elio Pagliarani , but also by Sarah Kirsch , Seamus Heaney and Philippe Jaccottet were published.

Ten years after his death, the Accettura municipality named a place after him because he had done a lot for researching and revitalizing the “ Maggio di Accettura ” festival .

His son Stefano is a professor of English and English literature at the University of Bari and was previously director of the local Institute for European Cultural History.

literature

  • Obituary: Lutz Röhrich : Giovanni Battista Bronzini 04.09.1925-17.03.2002. In: Song and Popular Culture. 46th year, 2001, pp. 229-230. JSTOR 849518 .
  • Obituary: Ferdinando Mirizzi: Giovanni Battista Bronzini. In: La Ricerca Folklorica. No. 45, 2002, April, pp. 3-6. JSTOR 1480151 .

Works (selection)

  • Tradizioni popolari in Lucania , Matera, 1953
  • Accettura: il contadino, l'albero, il santo , Galatina, 1977
  • Mito e realtà della civiltà contadina lucana , Matera, 1977
  • Cultura popolare. Dialettica e contestualità , Bari, 1980
  • Cultura contadina e idea meridionalistica , Bari, 1982
  • Homo laborans. Cultura del territorio e musei demologici , Galatina, 1985
  • I canti popolari di N. Tommaseo , Lecce, 1985
  • L'Universo contadino e l'immaginario poetico di Rocco Scotellaro , Bari, 1987
  • Intellettuali e poesia popolare nella Sicilia dell'Ottocento , Palermo, 1991
  • La letteratura popolare italiana dell'Otto-Novecento: profilo storico-geografico , Novara u. Florence, 1994
  • Storia del culto della Madonna dell'Arco attraverso le fonti scritte e figurative dei secoli XVII-XVIII , Florence, 1998

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Piazza GB Bronzini - 19 Maggio 2012. accetturaonline.it, May 21, 2012, accessed on May 25, 2017 (Italian).
personal data
SURNAME Bronzini, Giovanni Battista
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian anthropologist and folklorist
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Bari
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 2002
Place of death Bari