Month: November 2020

Performance and Tradition in Italy

Singing with Pippa Bacca by Denise Lombardi and Rossella Grossoni   In noughties Italy, the Bubble Gum choir performed a liberatory counterimage of the feminine. Today, Bacca’s chorus breathes new life into the ensemble of characters and an impermanent but continuo art piece. Bubble Gum is an all-female choir founded by Pippa Bacca, a performance artist and

Douglass Prize Winner and New Books

SAE is pleased to celebrate the scholarship of our members!  Books in Europeanist anthropology published in 2019 (alphabetical by author) Beckfield, Jason. 2019. Unequal Europe: Regional Integration and the Rise of European Inequality. Oxford University Press. Bernstein, Anya. 2019. The Future of Immortality: Remaking Life and Death in Contemporary Russia. Princeton University Press. **2020 William A. Douglass Prize in