 Piercarlo Grimaldi
Biography
Piercarlo Grimaldi was born in Cossano Belbo in 1945, and is a full professor at the University of Gastronomic Sciences, where he teaches Cultural Anthropology. In October 2011, he was named Dean of the university.
Grimaldi is a member of the jury and coordinator of the Costantino Nigra Ethnoanthropology Prize, as well as the editorial committee of the Bollettino dell'Atlante Linguistico Italiano (University of Torino), the scientific committee of the Quaderni di Studi Italiani e Romeni (University of Torino, Universitatea din Craiova), and of the scientific committee of the Cesare Pavese Foundation. Since 1993, he has served as director of the Documenti e ricerche di etnologia europea series from the Omega di Torino publishing house, and since 1998 has been a member of the Commissione Nazionale dei beni demo-etno-antropologici
Courses Taught
Cultural Anthropology
Major Areas of Research
Analysis of celebrations and ceremonies that reveal temporal traditions.
Study of visual documentation, particularly the use of cinematographic tools in anthropological research.
Observation, filing, and database archiving, and analysis of ritual structures.
Planning of virtual museums focusing on the forms and practices of celebrations and their traditional productive practices.
Planning and execution of atlases and maps featuring ethnographic data.
Research on traditional food calendars.
The Granai della Memoria project
Key Publications
Il calendario rituale contadino. Il tempo della festa e del lavoro fra tradizione e complessità sociale, Milano, Angeli, 1993 (1998: fourth edition). Presentazione by Gian Luigi Bravo. Introductory Nota by Sergio Zoppi.
Tempi grassi, tempi magri. Percorsi etnografici, Torino, Omega, 1996. Presentazione by Jean Poirier.
Rivoltare il tempo. Percorsi di etno-antropologia, Milano, Guerini e Associati, Centro Studi Cesare Pavese, 1997 (editor and Introduzione: Rapsodie di un sarto di campagna. Pratiche e segni del tempo tradizionale, pp. 9-48 and chapter: "Bisogna scrivere tutto". Diario di un sarto sul fronte della Prima Guerra Mondiale, pp. 296-302).
Bestie, santi, divinità. Maschere animali dell'Europa tradizionale, Torino, Museo Nazionale della Montagna, 2003 (editor and Introduzione).
Il cibo rituale. Forme e pratiche dell'alimentazione tradizionale, forthcoming from Selleria, Palermo 2012.
Contacts
Piercarlo Grimaldi
University of Gastronomic Sciences | Pollenzo Campus
Piazza Vittorio Emanuele, 9
fraz. Pollenzo - 12042 Bra (Cn)
Phone: +39 0172 458511
Fax: +39 0172 458500
Email: p.grimaldi@unisg.it - rettore@unisg.it
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