Giacomo Nerici is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Salerno and an adjunct lecturer at the University of Turin, Polytechnic Institute of Turin and the University of Milan-Bicocca. His research interests have initially focused on indigenous museums, contemporary shamanism and the heritage-making of sacred sites among the Sami people (Northern Norway). During his PhD at the University of Milan-Bicocca, he conducted an 18-month research fieldwork on the rediscovery of traditions within the cultural ‘awakening’ and the UNESCO inscription campaign in the Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia). In December 2023 he defended a thesis entitled “La Terra degli Uomini. Tradizioni e ‘risveglio’ culturale alle Isole Marchesi”. He has published research articles in scientific journals and edited volumes and is the author of the monograph Sulle orme dei nostri antenati. Riappropriazioni culturali e usi del passato tra i Sami norvegesi, Rome, CISU (2021).

Anthropology, Cultural Heritage, Cultural Renewal, Culture-nature Relations, Decolonisation, Epistemology, Ethnic Identity, Identity, Indigeneity, Indigenous Epistemology, Indigenous Politics, Island Studies, Material Culture, Myth-making, Navigation, Oral History, Pacific Studies, Poetics And Politics, Power and Resistance, Religion, Seascapes, Sovereignty, Spirituality, Tattooing, Visual Anthropology, Witchcraft

Anthropology

Polynesia

20th century
21st century

Marquesan, North, Marquesan, South