Carlo Tullio Altan (30 March 1916 – 15 February 2005) was an Italian anthropologist, sociologist and philosopher. He was particularly known for his studies on the Italian national character,[1][2] and was considered one of the pioneers of Italian cultural anthropology.[3][4]
Altan was born at San Vito al Tagliamento, in Friuli. His son Francesco Tullio Altan is a popular comic books creator and satirist.
Selected bibliography edit
- Lo spirito religioso del mondo primitivo (1960)
- Antropologia funzionale (1968)
- Valori, classi sociali e scelte politiche (with Alberto Marradi 1976)
- Manuale di antropologia culturale: storia e metodo (1979)
- Modi di produzione e lotta di classe in Italia (with Roberto Cartocci, 1979)
- Antropologia, storia e problemi (1983)
- La nostra Italia (1986)
- Populismo e trasformismo (1989)
- Soggetto, simbolo e valore: Per un'ermeneutica antropologica (1992)
- Ethnos e Civiltà: Identità etniche e valori democratici (1995)
- La coscienza civile degli italiani: Valori e disvalori nella storia nazionale (1997)
- Religioni, simboli, società: Sul fondamento umano dell'esperienza religiosa (with Marcello Massenzio, 1998)
- Le grandi religioni a confronto: L'età della globalizzazione (2002)
References edit
- ^ Cavalli, Alessandro, Reflections on Political Culture and the "Italian National Character"[dead link], Daedalus, 22 June 2001 (accessed via subscription 26 April 2010
- ^ Angioni, Giulio, Un antropologo anti-italiano
- ^ Robinson, Elisabetta, Carlo Tullio Altan, pioniere dell'antropologia culturale Archived July 27, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, Controluce, Anno XIV, No. 3, March 2005 (in Italian, accessed 26 April 2010)
- ^ Galimberti, Umberto, Il filosofo pioniere dell´antropologia Archived July 22, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, La Repubblica, 16 February 2005, reprinted on Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore (in Italian, accessed 26 April 2010)
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