Past futures: the frontier in the making between anthropology and history

Abstract

Starting from the interest, which in his intellectual and professional career, Ugo Fabietti has shown in the relations between anthropology and history, the essay focuses on two significant moments in the development of this intellectual tradition.  The first, between the 1980s and 1990s, led to the historical appreciation of the cultures with which anthropology had hitherto been concerned.  The second is current and anticipates the development of an anthropology of history as an ethnographically grounded knowledge of the practices of historical knowledge and the universes of thought and experience from which they originate.