Christian Giordano

Christian Giordano (born on October 27, 1945) is a Swiss anthropologist and sociologist born in Lugano, Switzerland. Since 1989, he has been Professor of Ethnology and Social Antropology and Head of the Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland.

Giordano is co-founder of Anthropological Journal on European Cultures.^[1] He is chief editor of Freiburg Studies in Social Anthropology and part of the editorial board of the journals Ethnologia Balkanica, Focaal, Etudes Rurales, Eastern European Countryside, Sociologija. Mintis ir veiksmas.

Giordano studied anthropology, art history and Romance languages at the University of Heidelberg, as well as law and economics at the University of Bern. He obtained his PhD in sociology from Heidelberg University in 1973, habilitation in cultural anthropology and European ethnology from Frankfurt University in 1987 and doctor honoris causa from the University of Timişoara West University of Timişoara in 1999.

Main publications

• Handwerker- und Bauernverbände in der sizilianischen Gesellschaft. Zünfte, Handwerkerkonfraternitäten u. Arbeiterhilfsvereine zwischen 1750 u. 1890 (Artisans and Farmers in Sicilian society). Tübingen: Mohr, 1975.
• Die Betrogenen der Geschichte. Überlagerungsmentalität und Überlagerungsrationalität in mediterranen Gesellschaften (The Dupes of History). Frankfurt, New York: Campus,1992.
• Власт, недоверие и наследство: Скептична антропология (Power, Mistrust and Legacy: Sceptical Anthropology). София : Полис, 2006.

References

1. ^ Kockel, Ullrich; Nic Craith, Máiréad (2004). Communicating Cultures Volume 1 of European Studies in Culture and Policy. LIT Verlag Münster. p. 305. ISBN 3825866432. http://books.google.com/books?id=Zyj9pYIhw2UC&pg=PA305&dq=%22Christian+Giordano%22&hl=en&ei=OncLTu3ENcTh0QHq4vSlAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CGYQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=%22Christian%20Giordano%22&f=false. Retrieved 29 June 2011. 

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