Professor Fiorella Giacalone

Fiorella Giacalone is an Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology in the Department of Political Science, University of Perugia (Italy). She is President of the degree Course in Social Work and the degree Course of Social Policy. She is a member of two International Associations of Anthropologists (FER Eurethno du Conseil de l'Europe and EASA, European Ass. Social Anthropology). She has taught at the universities of Florianopolis (Brazil), Valladolid (Spain), Paris, and Marrakech (Morocco)....See more

Fiorella Giacalone is an Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology in the Department of Political Science, University of Perugia (Italy). She is President of the degree Course in Social Work and the degree Course of Social Policy. She is a member of two International Associations of Anthropologists (FER Eurethno du Conseil de l'Europe and EASA, European Ass. Social Anthropology). She has taught at the universities of Florianopolis (Brazil), Valladolid (Spain), Paris, and Marrakech (Morocco). She is interested in the holy feminine, the bodily symbols in Catholicism and Islam, and the forms of construction and definition of the female body in the monotheistic religions. She is concerned also with the relation between medical anthropology and social services for immigrants. Recently, she has studied the daily life of young Muslim immigrants in secular Western culture. She has published 7 books and 70 essays in books and Italian and foreign scientific reviews. See less