Clemente Pietro
Pietro Clemente is Chair of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Florence. His focus is on migration and Italian subaltern cultures, with special attention to popular arts and oral traditions. He investigates museums and museography, and collaborates on projects on the relations between anthropology and contemporary arts. His area foci are in Tuscany and Sardinia. He is President of the Board of Simbdea (Società Italiana per la Museografia e i Beni Demo-Etno-Antropologici), the Italian Society for Museum and Heritage Anthropology. Since 2002, he has co-edited the periodical Antropologia Museale, and since 2003 he has directed the scientific journal Lares. He is also member of the Directing Board of various scientific committees for museums and research centers. Among his circa 200 scientific publications, are his two volumes on museums: Graffiti di museografia antropologica italiana, published in 1996, and Il terzo principio della museografia, published in 1999.
Of Foxes and Ants. A Public Dialogue in Beyond modernity. Do ethnography museums need ethnography? Atti del Colloquio internazionale RIME (Roma, aprile 2012), pp. 291-313.