SILVIA VIGNATO
Born in Italy, 29th August 1962
Nationality : Italian
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(-39)338 9352526
PRESENT POSITION:
2012: Associate Professor in Università di Milano-Bicocca
Former positions :
2006 : Lecturer in Università di Milano-Bicocca
2002-2005: Lecturer in Anthropology in Padova University
2000-2001 : Researcher in Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient
Relevant tasks and qualifications
Member of the Scientific Board of the Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient
Chief Editor of Antropologia, journal of anthropology
Work Package 3 Leader in 7th FP SEATIDE (EU Commisssion, 2012-2015)
Vice-director of the European Association of Southeast Asian Studies
Representant for Italy at the Euroseas Board (European Association of Southeast Asian Studies).
Associated member of CASE (Centre d’études Asie due Sud-Est, CNRS, France).
Scientific director of Seminario permanente di antropologia at Milano-Bicocca (2008-2010).
Teaching at various levels (undergraduate, master and PhD) at Milano-Bicocca.
Member of the PhD board in Anthropology of Modernity at Milano-Bicocca
CURRENT AND PAST RESEARCH
- Orphans and single parenthood in Malay and Acehnese societies. (2006/2013)
- Anthropology of work and unemployment in industrial Malaysia and post-conflict
Aceh(2006-2013)
- Family Constellation in Europe (since 2006).
- Anthropology of modern Hinduism in Malaysia
- Hinduism in Sumatra : conversions and reversions.
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
2012
Idoneità as an associate professor in Italy
1999
Habilitation à l’enseignement universitaire Comité National des Universités.
1998
PhD in anthropology at EHESS (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales), Paris.
1997-98
degree in Tamil at INALCO (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales).
1990-91
DEA in anthropology at EHESS, Paris
Degree in Indonesian at INALCO, Paris.
1989-90
Master in cultural and social anthropology at the University of Padova (Italy).
1986:
Master in clinical psychology at the University of Padova, Italy.
SCOLARSHIPS AND PRIZES
1999 Post-doc Eugène Fleischman.
Jeanne Cuisinier prize for the best book in French on Indonesian studies.
1998-99 Post-doc Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient.
1992-95 PhD Scolarship (allocation de recherche) from French Ministry of Research.
1990-91 Masters Scholarship from Università di Padova.
PUBLICATIONS
Forthcoming : Short marriages: post-war sexuality in Muslim Aceh (Indonesia), in Francke, Patrick and
Prager, Laila, Beyond the Patriarchal Family, Bu Verlag, Bamberg
Forthcoming: "Different Orphans. Towards an ethnography of children in Aceh", in Avonius,
Grayman, Vignato, Making Peace in Aceh, NUS, Singapore.
Forthcoming : Sensual subjects in an Islamic epistemological arena: negotiating the borders of aurat in
Aceh, Abenante, P., Cantini, D., Life-worlds and religious commitment: ethnographic perspectives on
subjectivity and Islam, La Ricerca Folklorica, 2-2015
2014 (With Matteo Alcano) Introduction. Antropologia, 1(1 NS).
2014 A Family Scene with Babies: Non-Institutional Ethnic Child Fostering in Malaysia. Antropologia, 1(1 NS).
2013 (With Anne Guillou) “Life after collective death in Southeast-Asia Vol. 2. Helping and being
helped. Introduction”, in Guillou, A., Vignato, S., Life after collective death in Southeast Asia,
South East Asia Research, 20, 2, pp 161–174 doi: 10.5367/sear.2012.0106
2012 Devices of oblivion: how Islamic schools rescue ‘orphaned’ children from traumatic experiences in
Aceh (Indonesia) in Guillou, A., Vignato, S., Life after collective death in Southeast Asia, South East
Asia Research, 20, 2, pp 225–000 doi: 10.5367/sear.2012.0107
2012 (With Anne Guillou) “Life after collective death in Southeast-Asia Vol. 1. The (re)fabrication of
social bonds. Introduction”, in Guillou, A., Vignato, S., Life after collective death in Southeast
Asia, South East Asia Research, 20, 2, pp 161–174 doi: 10.5367/sear.2012.0106
2012 Men come in, men go out’: single Muslim women in Malaysia and Aceh, Social Identities: Journal for
the Study of Race, Nation and Culture, 18:2, 239-257
2010 Soggetti al lavoro, per un'etnografia della vita attiva, Utet, Torino
2008 “The Natural Ancestors. An Ethnography of Family Constellation Therapy" in Carlez Salazar
& Enric Porqueres, eds. Moralitats de la Natura/Moralities of Nature, Quaderns-e, Institut
Català di Antropologia, 12-2008b
2008 « Le zitelle del capitale. Un approccio etnologico all’ideologia del lavoro in Malesia », in Viti,
F., a cura di, Dipendenza personale, lavoro e politica, Modena, Il Fiorino, pagg. 80-106.
2008 « Dociles ouvrières: quelques pratiques et idées du travail salarié en Malaisie » in
Dérégulation, travail et solidarité, a cura di Laurent Bazin. AUTREPART. vol. 43 ISSN:
1278-3986 pagg. 89-102.
2007 « Nali e l'induismo Trasformazioni delle tendenze devozionali e interpretazione della modernità
a Penang (Malaysia) ». Studi Culturali, vol. 3, pp. 401-425.
2006 «Sakti Karakam en Indonésie et en Malaisie : rituels de migration et Etats », in Tarabout,
Gilles, Colas, Gérard, Rites hindous : transferts et transformations », Paris, Purusarta, Ed.
EHESS.
2004 "Old gods for the new world". In Ramstedt, Martin. Hinduism in Modern Indonesia: Hindu
Dharma Indonesia Between Local, National and Global Interest. (pp. 219-239). ISBN:
0700715339. : routledge.
2002 - Voci « Siberut », « Nias », « Engganu » in Chiarelli, Cosimo (ed.) Elio Modigliani
Palazzo Ammannati Pazzi (Museo di Antropologia e Etnologia), Firenze, Poligrafica.
- Un medium patetico. Rapporti di vicinato e riti tamil a Medan. In Schmidt Donatella.
Antropologia del grigio, L'altro visto dall'altro. (pp. 121-166). PADOVA: IPRES (ITALY).
2000 - Au nom de l’hindouisme. Reconfigurations ethniques chez les Tamouls et les Karo en
Indonésie, L’Harmattan, Paris.
- « Le corps exclu : notes sur le Sida en Malaysia » (« Excluded body : notes on Aids in
Malaysia »), Autrepart, Paris.
- « Brûler les ordures pour sauver la nation : le discours sur le Sida en Malaysia » (« Burn
sampah to save the nation : discourse on Aids in Malaysia »), in Blanc, Husson, Micollier, ed.
Sociétés asiatiques face au Sida, Paris, L’Harmattan (in print).
1999 « Shakuntala » : translation from Indonesian to Italian of selected parts of Saman, by Ayu
Utami, Lo Stato delle Cose (Milan), N. 8 Fall 1999 (special issue on Indonesian Litterature).
1998 « Patience et discretion des Bahai’s de Malaysia » in L’horizon nousantarien. Mélanges en
l’honneur de Denys Lombard, Paris, Archipel 1998
MAIN PARTICIPATION TO CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS (2008-2013)
2012 (a) “Anywhere but home: teen agers' movements in post-conflict, post-tsunami Banda Aceh”, paper
presented at the 12th EASA conference held in Paris, 8-11 july 2012
(b) The Making Of Cultural Identity In The Case Of "Unattached" Children Panel organized and
chaired with Giuseppe Bolotta (Università di Milano-Bicocca) at the IUAES Inter-congress held at
KIITS, Bhubaneswar, India
2010 Victims, Survivors, Mourners, Re-constructors: Southeast Asian Responses to Massive Social
Destruction, Panel organized and chaired with Anne Guillou (CNRS, France) at the 6th Euroseas
Conference, Goteborg, 26-29th August 2010
2009 (a) “Different Orphans: An Ethnography of Children in Aceh “, paper presented at the International
Conference on Aceh and Indian Ocean S udies II: Civil Conflict and Its Remedies, 23 – 24 February 2009,
Banda Aceh, Indonesia
(b) “Single adult women and sex in a Muslim society: local practices, Allah and the State in Malaysia and in
Aceh”, paper presented at the Symposium on Islam and Sexuality organized by prof. R. Gutiérrez at the
University of Chicago, 2-4 May 2009
2008 « The natural ancestors : an ethnography of family constellation », paper presented at the 10th EASA
conference held in Ljubljiana, 26-28th august.
NON-SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS:
2001
- Le ali di Zux, a novel. Roma, E/O.
-Chi siamo, dove siamo, da dove veniamo”, short story, in MicroMega III-2001
LANGUAGES : Bilingual Italian-French, good English, Spanish and Indonesian. Some portuguese and
conversation Tamil (written Tamil also understood).
