Domenico Branca

Research

My research interests mainly focus on four areas: the construction of social classifications, with particular emphasis on the identity and idea of the Peruvian Aymara nation; critical anthropology of heritage and tourism and their connection with national construction projects in Peru; the symbolic and material relationships between urban and rural environments, particularly in mountain cities of the Andes; and the study of mountain communities through a transdisciplinary montological approach.

I co-founded, with several colleagues, the journal América Crítica (Cagliari, Italy), and I am part of the Editorial Board of Anuac, the Journal of the Italian Society of Cultural Anthropology, and the Scientific Committee of the Revista de Pensamiento Crítico Aymara (Puno, Peru). In addition to several articles and chapters, I have published the book Identidad aymara en el Perú (Lima, Editorial Horizonte, 2017).

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