Giulio Angioni (28 October 1939 – 12 January 2017) was an Italian writer and

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Biography

Angioni was a leading Italian anthropologist, professor at the

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and fellow of St Antony's College of the

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. He is the author of about twenty books of fiction and a dozen volumes of essays in anthropology. In his anthropological essays (especially in ''Fare, dire, sentire: l’identico e il diverso nelle culture'', 2011), 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 (although usually separate and hierarchical) 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

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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

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and

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, to have been one of the initiators of a so-called

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, the Sardinian narrative of today in the European arena (with the work of authors such as

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and many others), which followed the works of individual prominent figures such as

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. The best novels of Angioni are considered to be Le fiamme di Toledo (''Flames of Toledo''), '' Assandira'', ''Doppio cielo'' (''Double sky''), ''L'oro di Fraus'' (''The gold of Fraus''). His poetic works (''Tempus'' in 2008, ''Oremari'' in 2011) in

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and Italian came later in his career.

Literary works

*''L'oro di Fraus'' (

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1988, Il Maestrale 2000) *''Il sale sulla ferita'' ( 1990, Il Maestrale 2010), finalist at the

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1990 *''Una ignota compagnia'' ( Feltrinelli 1992, Il Maestrale 2007), finalist at the

1992 *''La casa della palma'' ( Avagliano 2002) *''Millant'anni'' (Il Maestrale 2002, 2009) *''Il mare intorno'' (

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2003) *'' Assandira'' (Sellerio 2004) *''Alba dei giorni bui'' (Il Maestrale 2005, 2009),

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2005 *''Le fiamme di Toledo'' (Sellerio 2006),

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2006, Premio Mondello 2006 *''La pelle intera'' (Il Maestrale 2007) *''Afa'' (Sellerio 2008) *''Gabbiani sul Carso'' (Sellerio 2010) *''Doppio cielo'' (Il Maestrale 2010) * ''Sulla faccia della terra'' (2015)

Essays

* ''Ethnic Groups, in ''Journal of the Europeanists''

* ''Tre saggi sull'antropologia dell'età coloniale'', Flaccovio 1973 * '' Sa Laurera: Il lavoro contadino in Sardegna'',

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1976 e Il Maestrale 200

* ''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'',

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2004 * ''On Agro-Pastoral Space in Sardinia'', in Fabietti & Salzman (eds.), ''The Anthropology of Tribal and Peasant Pastoral Societies. Social Cohesion and Fragmentation'', 343–350, Como-Pavia, Ibis 1996.

Miscellaneous

* ''Tempus'' ( CUEC 2008, 2012 audiobook, unabridged, by Giulio Angioni) * ''Il dito alzato'' (Sellerio 2012) * ''Oremari'' (Il Maestrale 2013)

Bibliography

*Abate et al., ''Cartas de logu: scrittori sardi allo specchio'', CUEC 2007. *A. M. Amendola, ''L'isola che sorprende. La narrativa sarda in italiano (1974–2006)'', Cagliari, CUEC 200, 160–179. * Vinigi L. Grottanelli, ''Ethnology and/or cultural anthropology in Italy: traditions and development'', in "

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", XVIII (1977), 593–614. *E. Hall, ''Greek tragedy and the politics of subjectivity in recent fiction'', "Classical Receptions Journal", 1 (1), 23–42,

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, 2009. *C. Lavinio, ''Narrare un'isola. Lingua e stile di scrittori sardi'', Roma, Bulzoni, 1991, 151–171. *F. Manai, ''Cosa succede a Fraus? Sardegna e mondo nel racconto di Giulio Angioni'', Cagliari, CUEC, 2006. *M. Marras, ''Ecrivains insulaires et auto-représentation'', "Europaea", VI, 1–2 (2000), 17–77. *A. Ottavi, ''Les romanciers italiens contemporains'', Paris,

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, 1992, 142–145. *L. Schröder, ''Sardinienbilder. Kontinuitäten und Innovationen in der sardischen Literatur und Publizistik der Nachkriegszeit'', Bern, Peter Lang, 2000. *B. Wagner, ''Sardinien, Insel im Dialog. Texte, Diskurse, Filme'', Tübingen, Francke Verlag 2008. *F. Bachis, A. M. Pusceddu (eds), ''Cose da prendere sul serio. Le antropologie di Giulio Angioni,'' Nuoro, Il Maestrale, 2015.

References

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