Updated 4/2017
Dr Lorenzo Ferrarini
Date of birth: 01/12/1982
Place of birth: Milan, Italy
Tel. +44 (0) 7412089657
email: [email protected]
website: lorenzoferrarini.com
Present appointment:
2014-2017
Lecturer in Social and Visual Anthropology, Department of Social Anthropology, University
of Manchester.
Education:
2014
University of Manchester; PhD in Social Anthropology with Visual Media
Dissertation: Ways of Knowing Donsoya. Environment, Embodiment and Perception among the
Hunters of Burkina Faso.
Audiovisual component: Kalanda - The Knowledge of the Bush - documentary film, HD video,
62 mins.
Advisors: Rupert Cox and Petra Tjiske Kalshoven.
Examiners: Steven Feld and Tony Simpson.
2008
University of Milan-Bicocca (Italy); MA in Anthropology and Ethnology (2 years).
Dissertation: Recording Experience. The Use of Audiovisual Media in Anthropology between Science
and Art: Jean Rouch and Steven Feld.
Audiovisual component: Between Egypt and Egypt - mixed media interactive CD.
Advisors: Vincenzo Matera and Ivan Bargna.
2004
University of Milan (Italy); BA in Linguistic and Cultural Mediation (3 years).
Dissertation: Traditional Songs of the donsotòn, the Hunters’ Brotherhood of the Mande Cultural
Area.
Advisors: Silvia Riva and Nicola Scaldaferri.
Memberships:
I am a member of the European Association of Social Anthropologists and of its Visual Anthropology
Network (VANEASA). I am also member of the African Studies Association and Mande Studies Association
(MANSA). I am Visual Editor of the journal Anthropology Matters and judge for the Royal Anthropological
Institute Ethnographic Film Festival.
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Text-based publications:
Journal articles:
Forthcoming “The Shirts of the Donso Hunters: Materiality and Power between Concealment and Visual
Display” submitted to African Studies Review special forum on The Performance of Power—the
Power of Performance.
Forthcoming “Taking Metaphors Seriously: Fetishes and Embodiment among Donso Hunters in Burkina
Faso” submitted to Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.
2017
“Enactive Filmmaking: Rethinking Ethnographic Cinema in the First Person” accepted in Visual
Anthropology Review 33/2.
2017
“Embodied Representation: Audiovisual media and sensory ethnography” accepted in
Anthrovision.
2016
“The Dankun Network: the donso hunters of Burkina Faso between ecological change and
new associations” in Hunting in Contemporary Africa, edited by Robert J. Gordon, special issue
of Journal of Contemporary African Studies 34/1: 80-96.
2015
(with Nicola Scaldaferri) “Filming as Exploring. Researching the musical practice of the Sambla
xylophone through documentary film” in Making Images of Africa, edited by Lorenzo Ferrarini,
special issue of Archivio di Etnografia anno IX, n. 1-2 - 2014.
2015
“Introduction” in Making Images of Africa, edited by Lorenzo Ferrarini, special issue of Archivio
di Etnografia anno IX, n. 1-2 - 2014.
2011
“Registrare con il Corpo: dalla riflessione fenomenologica alle metodologie audio-visuali di
Jean Rouch e Steven Feld” in De Musica XV: 1-41.
2011
Translator of “Knowledge of the Body” by Michael Jackson and “The body in transition” by
Eckehard Pistrick in Molimo. Quaderni di Antropologia Culturale ed Etnomusicologia N. 6, Milano:
CUEM.
2011
“L’Esperienza del Corpo. Un’Introduzione” in Molimo. Quaderni di Antropologia Culturale ed
Etnomusicologia N. 6: 7-42, Milano: CUEM.
2009
“Registrare con il Corpo: dalla riflessione fenomenologica alle metodologie audio-visuali di
Jean Rouch e Steven Feld” in Molimo. Quaderni di Antropologia Culturale ed Etnomusicologia N. 4:
125-45, Milano: CUEM 2008.
2008
“Danze di Etnografo e Nativi: interazione e partecipazione per un metodo etnografico
enattivo” text and photographs in Archivio di Etnografia, N. 1/2008: 9-28, nuova serie.
2006
“Tre preghiere collettive dei musulmani milanesi. Spunti di riflessione sulla fotografia
etnografica” text and photographs, in Achab. Rivista di antropologia, IX, Università degli Studi di
Milano Bicocca.
2006
“Musiche in viaggio. L’esperienza di due musicisti del Burkina Faso fra tradizione e 'world
music,'“ text and photographs, in Molimo, Quaderni di antropologia culturale ed etnomusicologia,
N. 1: 111-142, Milano: CUEM.
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Edited journal special issues:
2015
Making Images of Africa, special issue of Archivio di Etnografia anno IX, n. 1-2 - 2014.
2011
L'Esperienza del Corpo special issue of Molimo. Quaderni di Antropologia Culturale ed
Etnomusicologia N. 6, Milano: CUEM.
Chapters in edited works:
Forthcoming “MacDougall, David and Judith” paper accepted, forthcoming in Anthropology Beyond Text,
edited by Rupert Cox, volume 12 in International Encyclopaedia of Anthropology. New York:
Wiley Blackwell Press.
Forthcoming “Filmmaking, Collaborative” paper accepted, forthcoming in Anthropology Beyond Text, edited
by Rupert Cox, volume 12 in International Encyclopaedia of Anthropology. New York: Wiley
Blackwell Press.
2017
“Editor's Introduction to the English Translation” in Scaldaferri N. and Feld S., When the Trees
Resound - collaborative media research on an Italian festival, Udine, Nota CD Book. Distributed
by Smithsonian.
2011
“From Research Materials to Collaboration – Representing Three Generations of Serbian
Musicians” in Pistrick E., Scaldaferri N. and Schwörer G., Audiovisual Media and Identity Issues
in Southeastern Europe, Cambridge, Cambridge Scholar Publishing.
Reviews:
2016
“Experimental film and anthropology. xvi, 205 pp., illus., bibliogrs. London: Bloomsbury,
2014.” in Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 22: 216-17. DOI: 10.1111/14679655.12347
2012
“Review of 'Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra' by Steven Feld,” in Visual Ethnography, vol. 1, N.
2: 88-89.
Interviews:
2015
“Intersubjectivity and Collaboration: A Conversation with Steven Feld” in Making Images of
Africa, edited by Lorenzo Ferrarini, special issue of Archivio di Etnografia anno IX, n. 1-2 - 2014.
2007
“Steven Feld on Media and Representation” published online at
http://lorenzoferrarini.com/portfolio/interview-steven-feld/
Research outputs in audiovisual media:
Selected Films:
2016
Living the Weather - Five Variations on Weather and Seasons in the Calder Valley.
An experimental collaborative documentary on people's experience of the weather in a West
Yorkshire valley. UK 2016, 40 min. Available in director's cut and short version.
Online: lorenzoferrarini.com/portfolio/living-the-weather/
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2016
The Sambla Baan. In post-production, forthcoming.
A documentary on the music of the Sambla people of Burkina Faso. UK-Burkina Faso.
Website: thesamblabaan.vhx.tv
2015
The Taxidermist.
A short documentary on Boubacar Traoré, his work as a taxidermist in Bobo Dioulasso,
Burkina Faso, and the rituals and beliefs connected to hunting hippos. Screened at HOME
cinema in Manchester as part of FilmedUp! UK-Burkina Faso, 6 min.
Online: vimeo.com/121228059
2014
Kalanda - The Knowledge of the Bush.
A documentary film about donsoya, the knowledge of initiated hunters in Burkina Faso. UKBurkina Faso, 61 min. Winner of Werbner prize for Visual Ethnography and a commendation
for the RAI Film Prize at the 2015 RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film. Winner of
Best Ethnographic Documentary at the VI International Ethnographic Film Festival of Recife.
Reviewed in Visual Anthropology Review 32/1: 84-85 and Visual Ethnography 4/2.
Website: kalandafilm.com
2008
A Migrant's Tale.
A collaborative project in photographic storytelling on the lives of Egyptian migrants in
Milano. Italy, 15 min.
Online: vimeo.com/23477937
Photographs:
2017
Photographic Essay in Scaldaferri N. and Feld S., When the Trees Resound - collaborative media
research on an Italian festival, Udine, Nota CD Book. Distributed by Smithsonian.
2013
Cover and photographic section in Scaldaferri, N. Two Portraits from Ghana, Roma: Squilibri.
2012
Photographic Essay in Scaldaferri, N. and Feld S., ed., I Suoni dell’Albero, Udine: Nota CD
Book.
2010
Photographic section in Nikolskaya A. and Scaldaferri N., eds., Lule sheshi/Fiori di prato.
Omaggio all'arte poetica di Enza Scutari, Roma: Squilibri.
2010
Photographic section in Scaldaferri N., ed., Enzo Schillizzi pittore (1955-2009), Roma: Squilibri.
2007
Photographic section, in Facci S. and Scaldaferri N. eds., Torre de’ Picenardi un laboratorio di
etnomusicologia (2003-2004), Udine: Nota.
2007
Two photographs in Accra Trane Station, Another Blue Train, Voxlox booklet.
2006
Ethnographic Museum of Arbëreshë Culture, San Costantino Albanese (PZ), three
photographs from the S. Rocco festival in S. Paolo Albanese (PZ, Italy).
Websites:
Research blog posts at http://lorenzoferrarini.com/blog
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Conferences and workshops:
Paper delivered:
2016
African Studies Association, Washington DC, USA. In the panel “Power and the Arts in West
African Power Associations,” paper delivered: The Shirts of the Donso Hunters and the
Aesthetics of Concealment.
2016
European Association of Social Anthropologists, Milan, Italy. In the panel “Skilled
Engagements,” paper delivered: Filming as skilled engagement: representing an apprenticeship in
initiatory hunting.
2015
American Anthropological Association, Denver, USA. In the panel “Refamiliarizing the
Estranged: Digital Representation of Indigenous Peoples through Sharing, Collaboration, and
Negotiation” paper delivered: Representing the Apprenticeship through Dialogue and
Collaboration.
2015
The Satterthwaite Colloquium on African Ritual and Religion, Grasmere, UK. Paper
delivered: From Individualism to Networks of Relationships: the donso hunters of Burkina Faso
between ecological change and new associations.
2013
IUAES World Anthropology Congress Conference, at the University of Manchester, UK. In
the panel “Visual encounters: audiovisual approaches to anthropological knowledge,” paper
delivered: Issues in filming in the first person among the donso of Burkina Faso.
2013
The Satterthwaite Colloquium on African Ritual and Religion, Grasmere, UK. Paper
delivered: Embodiment and ritual practices with hunting power objects among the donso of Burkina
Faso.
2010
American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, USA. In the panel “Perception,
Production and Circulation: Sensory Ethnography through Media,” Paper delivered: Recording
with the Body: an ecological approach to the evocation of bodily experience in audiovisual
ethnographies.
2009
“Suono Riprodotto, Performance Immaginata,” University of Milan, Paper delivered: Registrare
con il corpo.
Organised:
2016
Doing Ethnography through the Body, panel P134 at the 2016 EASA conference in Milan, Italy.
2013
The Art of Ethnographic Writing, workshop and conference, April 19th, the University of
Manchester.
Invited lectures and seminars:
2017
Goldsmiths University, London, MA in Visual Anthropology, seminar on enactive filmmaking.
2016
Università della Svizzera Italiana, Academy of Architecture, Microclimate Ethnography, seminar
on Living the Weather - Filming the experience of microclimates.
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University of Manchester, department seminar, paper delivered: The Experience of the Bush.
2015
UCL/Open City Docs, part of the course Experimental Ethnographic and Documentary Film
2015
University of Cologne, conference and workshop “Hunting in Contemporary Africa,”
presentation of Kalanda - The Knowledge of the Bush.
2014
Bookcity Milano, Africa e Audiovisivi.
2013
Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, during “Week of Audiovisual Anthropology,”
paper delivered: Filming in the first person among the donso of Burkina Faso, with film screening
of Kalanda - The Knowledge of the Bush.
2013
University of Manchester, Fieldwork methods course.
2013
“Audiovisual Ethnographies: A Journey with Steven Feld,” at the University of Milan, Italy.
Paper delivered: Filmare in prima persona tra i cacciatori donso del Burkina Faso.
Teaching:
Courses designed and taught as course leader:
2016-2017
University of Manchester
The Study and Practice of Anthropology at Manchester - Anthropology Beyond Text
(10 credit course, 1st year UG) Lectures and seminars.
2015-2016
University of Manchester
Ethnographic Documentary
(30 Credits MA core course) Lectures, practical workshops in filmmaking and sound
recording, film screenings.
2014-2017
University of Manchester
Beyond Observational Cinema
(30 credits MA core course) Lectures, practical workshops in filmmaking and sound
recording, film screenings.
2014-2017
University of Manchester
Short Course in Ethnographic Documentary
(12 days summer school) Lectures, practical workshops in filmmaking and sound recording,
film screenings.
2014-2017
University of Manchester
Regional Studies of Culture - Mande West Africa
(10 credit course, 1st year UG) Lectures.
Other courses taught:
2014-2016
University of Manchester
Screening Culture
(15 Credits MA core course) 2 lectures.
2014-2015
University of Manchester
Ethnographic Documentary
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(30 Credits MA core course) 2 practical workshops in filmmaking and sound recording, 1
lecture.
2010-2013
University of Manchester
Teaching Assistant, Department of Social Anthropology.
2010-2013
University of Manchester
Various presentations and technical workshops, Department of Social Anthropology.
Assessment of teaching (score out of 5):
2016-2017
The Study and Practice of Anthropology at Manchester (SOAN10370): 3.06.
2015-2016
Ethnographic Documentary (SOAN70121): 4.69.
Beyond Observational Cinema (SOAN70142): 4.63.
2014-2015
Regional Studies of Culture - Mande West Africa (SOAN10331): 3.96.
Beyond Observational Cinema (SOAN70142): 4.38.
Supervision:
Doctoral and research students:
2016
Eduard Vasile Does consciousness translate into behavior? A visual research study of the process of
learning in Open Presence meditation in Tibetan Buddhism. PhD in Social Anthropology with
Visual Media, third supervisor.
2014
Artur Karwat Horror vacui. Fear of the empty. Reactions to changing lifescapes in the Beskid
Mountains, Poland. MPhil in Ethnographic Documentary, second supervisor.
2014
Jaimal Sandhu The virtualisation of sacred space and the embodiment of Sikh identity: An
interactive dissertation and media project exploring digital networks connecting Sikh temples in
Indian Punjab and England. PhD in Social Anthropology with Visual Media, third supervisor.
2014
Jude Robinson MPhil in Ethnographic Documentary, second supervisor.
Postgraduate taught students:
2014-2016
Supervision of MA Visual Anthropology students as only supervisor, including research
proposals and dissertations.
Undergraduate students:
2014-2016
Pastoral supervisor.
Dissertation supervisor for 3rd year students.
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Other academic duties:
Seminars organised:
2014-2017
Fieldwork and Filmwork seminar for work-in-progress audiovisual productions by staff and
PGR students, Social Anthropology, University of Manchester.
Committees:
2016-2017
Employability committee, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester.
2016-2017
Undergraduate committee, Social Anthropology, University of Manchester.
2014-2016
Postgraduate committee, Social Anthropology, University of Manchester.
Postgraduate funding committee, Social Anthropology, University of Manchester.
Examiner:
2014-2017
MA in Visual Anthropology and MA in Anthropological Research, University of Manchester.
Professional development:
2014
Advanced field sound recording workshop with Chris Watson, Wildeye Incorporated.
2008
Video Workshop in Visual Anthropology with David e Judith MacDougall, Istituto Regionale
Etnografico della Sardegna.
Research grants and awards:
2014
Sutasoma Award, Royal Anthropological Institute.
2014-13, 11
The Max Gluckman Fund Award, University of Manchester.
2010-2013
Social Anthropology Department PhD Studentship, full funding of fee and living expenses,
School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester.
Fieldwork:
2015, 11-12
The donso hunters in Western Burkina Faso.
2007-2008
A group of Egyptian undocumented immigrants in Milan and San Giuliano Milanese, Italy.
Work experience (non-academic):
2011-2014
Various promotional short films for the Department of Social Anthropology, Sociology,
methods@manchester, CRESC, at the University of Manchester.
2009-2010
Field research and video editing for the “Culture in Movimento“ (Moving Cultures) project
by Regione Lombardia and University of Milan.
2008
Preliminary design of the Archivio Sonoro della Puglia (Apulia Sound Archive), at the Bari
National Library, with cultural association Altrosud.
2008
Assistant for Steven Feld's sound installations for the Multiple Entries art exhibition by Virginia
Ryan, Palazzo Collicola, Spoleto.
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2006-2010
Digitalization, photo retouching and archivist for the Archivio di Etnografia e Storia Sociale
(AESS) della Regione Lombardia.
2005-2008
Enrollments secretary for the C.U.S. (Centro Universitario Sportivo) Milano Rugby.
2005-today
Researcher for the LEAV (Laboratorio di Etnomusicologia e Antropologia Visuale), Università
degli Studi di Milano, photographic section: fieldwork research, archiving and digitalization,
video and audio recording, web mastering.
2004-2005
Design and teaching for the weekly course Musica e Cultura del Burkina Faso in the Primo Levi
High School, San Donato Milanese.
2001-2010
Teacher of Italian for foreigners for the Scuola Popolare per Stranieri, via Freikofel Milano.
Websites:
2015
Design for Anthropology Matters journal http://www.anthropologymatters.com
2013
Design, development and mastering for the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, the
University of Manchester http://granadacentre.co.uk
2013
Design and mastering of http://lorenzoferrarini.com
2007 & 2015 Design and mastering for the LEAV (Laboratorio di Etnomusicologia e Antropologia Visuale),
Università degli Studi di Milano http://leavlab.com
Language Skills:
Italian: native.
English: fluent, both written and spoken, TOEFL iBT, score 108.
French: intermediate, both written and spoken.
Jula/Bamana: intermediate, spoken.
Technical Skills:
Recording:
Digital and analog photography.
Video recording in MiniDV, HDV and HDSLR formats.
Digital sound recording, on location.
Software:
Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom, Silverfast and other photo editing and scanning software.
Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut Studio Pro and other video editing software.
Adobe Encore, DVD Studio Pro DVD authoring softwares.
Adobe Audition and other audio editing software.
Adobe InDesign, Flash and Dreamweaver (HTML, CSS, PHP).
European Computer Driving License (ECDL).
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Microsoft Office Suite.
Windows and Macintosh operating systems.
