Phd in HISTORY, ANTHROPOLOGY, RELIGIONS

email: alessandro.lupo@uniroma1.it
phone: 0649913346
building: Facoltà di Lettere
room: Stanza di Etnologia (locali piano terra, sezione di etnoantropologia)

Alessandro Lupo, graduate in Ethnology (Rome 1982) with a thesis on the residential pattern of the Huave of southern Mexico, PhD in Ethno-anthropological Sciences (Rome 1990) with a thesis on the cosmology of the Nahua of the Sierra de Puebla; e is full professor of Ethnology at the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy of “Sapienza” University of Rome. He is the director of the Italian Ethnological Mission in Mexico, and he has been carrying out field research for approximately 50 months in total among the Huave of Oaxaca and the Nahua of the Sierra de Puebla on the following topics: oral tradition (narrative and ritual texts), cosmology, ethno-astronomical knowledge, religion, ritual, native medical knowledge and practices, the relationship between the indigenous population and health institutions, processes of cultural dynamics and identity negotiation. Since 2005 he has been conducting anthropological-medical research in the health sector in collaboration with various institutions in Rome and Lazio (Laziosanità ASP, ASL RME, A.O. San Camillo-Forlanini). He is President of the Italian Society of Medical Anthropology (SIAM) and member of the Board of Directors of the Société des Américanistes (Paris). He is a member of the board of directors of the Italian Society of Cultural Anthropology (SIAC). Since 2014 he has been the director of the class A journal “L'Uomo. Società Tradizione Sviluppo” (Rome); he is part of the editorial staff of “AM Rivista della Società italiana di antropologia medica”, and of the International Editorial Board of “Ethnology” (Un. of Pittsburgh), “Revista de Antropología Social” (Un. Complutense, Madrid), “Dimensión Antropológica” (INAH, Mexico) and “Anales de Antropología” (UNAM, Mexico). In November 2006 he was conferred by the Mexican government the decoration of the Aztec Aztec, for his scientific contributions to the study of native Mexico. In 2015, he was conferred the Gonzalo Aguirre Beltrán Chair in Xalapa by CIESAS and Universidad Veracruzana. In 2017 he received the prize “Italia-México 2017, edición especial arte y cultura", from the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Mexico. From 2016 to 2018 he was part of the commission for National Scientific Qualification for the competition sector 11 / A5 Demo-ethno-anthropological Sciences.
He has organized the following national and international conferences: "La cultura plural. Reflexiones sobre diálogos y silencios. Homenaje a Italo Signorini" (Mexico City 1995); "Gli indigeni messicani oggi: protagonisti e dinamiche dell’identità etnica" (Rome 2003); "Tra etnografia e didattica. Italo Signorini 10 anni dopo" (Rome 2004); "Gli Aztechi oggi. Grandezza e vitalità di una civiltà messicana" (Rome 2004 ); "San Juan Diego y la Pachamama. Nuevas vías del catolicismo y de la religiosidad indígena en América Latina" (Rome 2008 ); "Narrare la tortura. Un incontro tra antropologi e terapeuti" (Rome 2009 ); "Antropologia della salute indigena: popolazione nativa e istituzioni sanitarie in Messico" (Rome 2012); “1° Convegno Naz. della Soc. It. di Antropologia Medica (SIAM) - Antropologia medica e strategie per la salute” (Rome 2013); “Il Rito e la Cura. L'efficacia terapeutica nelle medicine tradizionali nella psicoterapia e nella biomedicina” (Rome 2014); “Salud indígena e instituciones santiarias en la Sierra de Puebla. Resultados de las investigaciones de la Misión Etnológica Italiana en México” (Cuetzalan, Puebla 2014); “Antropología médica e instituciones sanitarias: investigaciones recientes de la Misión Etnológica Italiana en México y el Posgrado de Antropología en Salud de la UNAM” (Mexico City 2014); “Stati di coscienza. Un’indagine neurobiologica e socioculturale sulle funzioni dello psichismo nelle differenti culture” (Rome 2015); “Fare etnografia in Messico. Ricerche recenti della Missione Etnologica Italiana in Messico” (Rome 2015); “El tiempo en recomposiciones. Enfoques interdisciplinarios sobre los rituales mesoamericanos” (Rome 2016); “Razza, razzismi, discriminazioni razziali. Il contributo dell’Antropologia Culturale alla riflessione contemporanea” (Rome 2018). He has also organized the ethnographic video review “Indigenous Mexico: images of plurality” (Rome 1998).
He has participated in numerous conferences in Italy and abroad (Bologna, Milan, Mistretta, Naples, Noto, Padua, Palermo, Prato, Rome, Salerno, Sansepolcro, Siena, Turin, Venice [IT]; Jaca, Madrid, Granada, Zaragoza , Toledo, Trujillo [ES]; Paris, Royaumont [FR]; Newcastle [GB]; Stockholm [SE]; Berkeley, Harvard [USA]; Mexico City, Cuernavaca, Xalapa, Puebla [MX]) presenting reports that have been mostly published .
He has held lectures and seminars at the following Italian and foreign Universities and Institutions: Itali: Agenzia di Sanità Pubblica del Lazio (2004, 2007, 2008), Un. of Bologna (2014,) Un. of Milan Bicocca (2005, 2004), Un. of Padua (2002), Un. of Perugia (2007), Un. of “Roma Tre” (2008); Un. of Turin (2006); Mexico: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (Mexico City 2005, 2008), Dirección de Etnología y Antropología Social (Mexico City 1991), Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia (Mexico City 1991, 1996, 1997, 2015), Universidad Veracruzana (Xalapa 1988, 2015), Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (Puebla 2017); United States: Un. of Pittsburgh (2005); Spain: Casa de América (Madrid 2004), Un. Complutense of Madrid (Madrid 2004, 2006, 2007), Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo (Santander 1996); France: Un. of Paris X, Nanterre (2017, 2018).