Mariano Pavanello

Mariano Pavanello taught Social Anthropology and Africanistics in the Universities of Pisa and Rome "La Sapienza", where he was Head of the Department of History, Cultures, and Religions. His extensive experience among the Nzema of Ghana was his main ethnological fieldwork that he concluded with the creation of the "Kwame Nkrumah Museum of the Nzema Culture and History" in the premises of the eighteenth-century Fort Apollonia in Beyin, Ghana. He has published a number of books, including...See more

Mariano Pavanello taught Social Anthropology and Africanistics in the Universities of Pisa and Rome "La Sapienza", where he was Head of the Department of History, Cultures, and Religions. His extensive experience among the Nzema of Ghana was his main ethnological fieldwork that he concluded with the creation of the "Kwame Nkrumah Museum of the Nzema Culture and History" in the premises of the eighteenth-century Fort Apollonia in Beyin, Ghana. He has published a number of books, including Sistemi umani (1992), Le societa acquisitive e i fondamenti razionali dello scambio (1993), Il formicaleone e la rana (2000), Perspectives on African Witchcraft (2017), and La papaye empoisonnee. Essais sur la societe Akan des Nzema (2017). See less