Prof. Dr. Daniela Salvucci
Member of the Executive SIEF Board
daniela.salvucci(at)unibz.it
Institution: Free University of Bozen/Bolzano
Daniela Salvucci is an Associate Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology at the Faculty of Education, Free University Bozen/Bolzano (unibz), South Tyrol, Italy. She obtained a PhD in Anthropology, Ethnology, Cultural Studies at Siena University. She did post-doctoral research at Catamarca University in Argentina, and was a Fulbright research scholar at Yale University.
Daniela is currently working on mountain studies, exploring comparative perspectives and connections among anthropology, ethnology, and folklore especially in Alpine studies. Within this framework, she is carrying out both archival and ethnographic research on the history of the Malinowski family in South Tyrol and the local family stories and memories. At unibz, she collaborates with the MFEA-Malinowski Forum for Ethnography and Anthropology and the Platform Cultural Heritage Cultural Production. On behalf of the latter, she organized the international conference Playing and displaying: Practices of cultural heritage as cultural production in 2019. Daniela is also involved in the interdisciplinary deep map project, based on community participative research. Daniela has carried out ethnographic fieldwork in Italy and Argentina, especially in the Andean region, studying kinship, family, and gender issues, focusing on everyday practices, narratives, mobility and migration, rituals, and festivals in both rural and urban settings. Since 2017, she has been the co-convenor of the permanent panel Festivals in Latin America: customs, cultural heritage, models of space management at the annual international congress of Americanistic in Perugia.
Having been trained within the Italian frame of demo-ethno-anthropological studies, I highly appreciate the diversity of approaches, the complexity, and the fruitful convergences that SIEF has been promoting as an open space for discussion and encounter. As a member of the SIEF Board, I am honored to continue collaborating with the colleagues of the Board, contributing to SIEF collective endeavor toward knowledge co-production, scientific cooperation, communication, and public engagement. Based at Free University of Bozen/Bolzano, in a region historically marked by cultural conflicts, but also by stimulating interchanges and entanglements, I value environments where both differences and convergencies can emerge. I think of SIEF as one of them: a junction among anthropology, ethnology, and folklore studies, a meeting point between East and West, South and North, also extending beyond Europe.
Website: https://www.unibz.it/en/faculties/education/academic-staff/person/38071-daniela-salvucci
