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The paper explores everyday forms of racism toward sons and daughters of Muslim migrants born or raised in Italy since the late 1990s and early 2000s by shedding light on recent debates on Islamophobia in Italy and Europe. Based on my interlocutors’ narratives about their experiences of racism at different levels of education, the paper shows how these experiences significantly impacted their identity paths. The case is initially read through the lens of anthropological literature on cultural racism to introduce the discussion of another way of marking difference that seems particularly apt to describe long-standing forms of discrimination against ethnic-religious minorities in Europe: spiritual racism. Then, the paper introduces the notion of “micro-racism” to shed light on how Islamophobia is reproduced in an elusive and almost imperceptible way in daily interactions with teachers and peers, especially since middle school. Defining these forms of racism as “micro” is not meant to belittle the phenomenon but to point to its specificity. It is useful to highlight the particular ways in which ethnoreligious difference is marked in a context like Italy where minorities are relatively less visible than in other European countries. Finally, the paper refers to recent academic discussions on femonationalism, yet by moving the analysis from the level of public discourse to that of daily interactions between female teachers and students especially.

Recensione del libro di Francesco Bachis, Sull’orlo del pregiudizio. Razzismo e islamofobia in una prospettiva antropologica, Cagliari, Aipsa Edizioni, 2018, pp. 174.

This paper explores reading practices of an Islamic text, the Risale-i Nur, within the Suffa community, one of the many that emerged from the most influential reformist movement of modern Turkey, the Nur movement. The article tackles main anthropological debates about the impact of modern secular education and new media on pedagogical practice within Muslim contexts. Whereas works on the topic have generally focused on the implications of these major transformations for the redefinition of religious authority, the paper draws attention to forms of reflection (tefekkür) and related views of the world, or cosmologies, that are generated by reading practices of the Risale. As some have argued, the direct access to religious knowledge by the individual believer that is allowed by this text may recall dynamics that took place in Europe within the Protestant Reformation. However, the paper suggests that such a perspective prevents the analysis of the lines of continuity between past and present paths to cultivating Muslim faith. Moreover, it argues that a new anthropology of reading, both in Islam and in other traditions, should pay more attention to the specific kind of intellectual exercises that are attached to reading practices in different cultural settings.

Como resultado de pesquisa da autora para seu mestrado na Universidade Mackenzie, a proposta deste artigo está ligada à preocupação com a arte como meio de comunicação, compreensão e ação dentro da universidade, através do encontro com a obra do artista Joseph Beuys e a hipermídia. São analisadas as obras: Coyote, “I Like America and America Likes me” (1974); Directional Forces (1974-1977); os múltiplos Zwei Fräulein mit leuchtendem Brot (1966) e Evervess II 1 (1967), bem como cartões-postais e feita citação de outras obras.

A new series of 3-methoxy-1,2-benzisothiazol-5-ylacetic acid analogs and some of their functional derivatives were synthesized and tested for their analgesic, antipyretic and anti-inflammatory activities. From an analysis of the relationship between structure and pharmacological activity, it was observed that modifications in the acid group induced useful variations in the parameters studied.

The Authors have compared two methods (the new Aso Quantum method and the Rantz-Randall traditional method) for the assay of ASO antibodies testing about 2,000 blood samples in out laboratory. Particularly, the data of one hundred of these cases were correlated also to the values of the Streptozyme test, and other parameters of the rheumatology diagnostics. The Authors, considering the final data, think this new method can be applied successfully in the routine of a laboratory.

Tetrazole analogs of a series of known 1,2-benzisothiazolalkanoic acids were synthesized and tested for anti-inflammatory, antipyretic and analgesic activities in comparison with their corresponding carboxylic acids. The benzisothiazoliltetrazoles showed high antipyretic activity and each tetrazole, except one, was appreciably more potent than the corresponding acid. The examined tetrazoles are generally inactive as anti-inflammatory agents and weakly active in the mouse writhing test, with effect comparable with those of the corresponding carboxylic acids.