Giovanna Bacchiddu

Doctor en Antropología Social, University of St Andrews

Correo: gbacchiddu@uc.cl
Teléfono: +562 2354 7405

Mi formación académica de antropóloga social se ha desorrollado en Italia, LSE (Londres) y St Andrews, donde he recibido mi doctorado. Mi principal tema de investigación se ha centrado en una comunidad insular de Chiloé (Comuna de Quinchao), donde he conducido investigación etnográfica durante mas de 10 años. Mis intereses incluyen los detalles de la socialidad – la manera de relacionarse de los individuos en una comunidad – el parentesco y la religión. Mis intereses en procesos religiosos me han conducido a investigar la conversión al Evangelismo, reacciones comunitarias a la presencia de misioneros católicos, y el culto de un santo local. Recientemente me he interesado en modernidad indígena y procesos de aprendizaje entre niños. Mi segundo campo de investigación es el parentesco, enfocado en casos de adopción internacional – niños chilenos adoptados por familias italianas. Me he interesado por las ideas de identidad étnica y cultural, maternidad, así como por los lazos culturales versus lazos biológicos entre hijos adoptivos, padres adoptivos y padres biológicos.

English bio

I have been trained as a Social Anthropologist in Cagliari, Italy, at the London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London, and at the University of St Andrews. My main research has focused on a remote insular community in Chiloé, where I have been conducting ethnographic research for more than 10 years. My interests range from sociality – the intricate way people build and develop the way to relate to each other – to kinship and religion. For what concerns religion, I have written about conversion to evangelical Christianity, Catholic miss ionisation as well as a local cult of a miraculous Catholic saint. More recently I have been interested in investigating indigenous modernity and children’s processes of learning. My second, more recent stream of research has been on kinship and particularly international adoption. I am focussing on a specific episode of intercountry adoption where Chilean-born children have been adopted by Italian families. Main themes of this project are ethnic and national identity, ideas of kinship ties and of motherhood on adoptees as well as adoptive parents, and biological parents.

Publicaciones Seleccionadas

2022:Mundos Relacionales Amerindios. Modos del Ser en la América del Sur Indígena. (eds.) con Florencia Tola. Las cuarenta, Buenos Aires. ISBN: 978-987-4936-88-2.
2022: ‘Introducción. Una red dinámica de relaciones’, in Mundos Relacionales Amerindios. Modos del Ser en la América del Sur Indígena. (eds.) con Florencia Tola. La Cuarenta, Buenos Aires, pp. 11-28.
2022: ‘Ritualizando el cotidiano. El peligroso imperativo de la hospitalidad en Apiao, Chiloé’, in Mundos Relacionales Amerindios. Modos del Ser en la América del Sur Indigena. (eds.) con Florencia Tola. La Cuarenta, Buenos Aires, pp. 81-97. ISBN 978-987-4936-88-2.
2022: ‘Ritualizing the everyday: the imperative of hospitality in Apiao, Chiloé’, In Theorizing Relations in Indigenous South America, edited by Marcelo Gonzalez Galvez, Piergiorgio di Giminiani and Giovanna Bacchiddu, New York: Berghahn Books, pp. 124-144.
2022: Theorizing Relations in Indigenous South America. With Marcelo Gonzalez y Piergiorgio di Giminiani (eds.). New York: Berghahn Books ISBN 978-1-80073-329-9.
2021 ¿Leones o ratones? Los posibles relatos alternativos en Apiao, Chiloé entre bromas y mentiras. With Daniela Tapia Segovia. Chungara Revista de Antropología Chilena. Volumen 53, N°4, 677-690 http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-73562021005002001.
2020 Gente de Isla. Una etnografia de Apiao, Chiloé, Chile. Buenos Aires: Rumbo Sur – Ethnographica. ISBN 978-987-4474-36-0u.
2019 ‘Ritualising the everyday: the imperative of hospitality in Apiao, Chiloé’, Social Analysis 63 (2), 122-142. In Theorizing Relations in Indigenous South America: Dependence on Otherness and the Ethics of Autonomy. Special issue edited by Giovanna Bacchiddu, Marcelo Gonzalez Galvez y Piergiorgio di Giminiani.
2019 Constructing Knowledge in Dialogue with Rural Schoolchildren, Between Art and Life, with Francisco Schwember, in Arts and ethnography in a contemporary world: From learning to social participation, L. Ferro and D. Poveda (eds.) Tufnell Press, pp 73-91.
2018 Entre el arte y la vida: encuentro con niños de una escuela rural de Apiao (Chiloé), with Francisco Schwember. In Dialogos del Reconocimiento: Territorios Alternos, Monica Bengoa (ed.). Santiago de Chile: Pehuén Editores, pp. 102-117.
2018 How Households are Made: Marriage, Independence and Productivity on the island of Apiao, Chiloé. In Chiloé: The Ethnobiology of an Island Culture, Anton Daughters & Ana Pitchon (eds.). Springer Ethnobiology series, pp 107-124.
2017 La chilenización del propio entorno. Identidad y objetos en la vida de adoptados chilenos en Cerdeña, Italia. En Salvo Agoglia, I. (Ed.). Adopciones en Chile hoy. Politicas, intervenciones e investigacion. Santiago de Chile: Ediciones Universidad Alberto Hurtado, pp 267-294
2017 ‘Updating The Map Of Desires: Mobile Phones, Satellite Dishes And Abundance As Facets Of Modernity In Apiao, Chiloé, Southern Chile’, Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society, [S.l.], v. 42, n. 1, p. 45-66. ISSN 1799-8972.
2017: Fear and Prayers. Negotiating with the dead in Apiao, Chiloé (Chile) in Death in the Early Twenty-First Century: Authority, Innovation and Mortuary Rites, Sébastien P. Boret, Susan O. Long and Sergei Kan (eds.). New York: Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 31-62.
2017: ‘The danger of knowledge: exercising sameness, bound to differentiation’ in The Ethics of Knowledge-Creation. Transaction, Relations and Persons, L. Josephides and A.S. Gronseth (eds.) New York and Oxford: Berghahn, pp. 49-76.
2013 ‘Come un Trapianto d’Organo. Questioni di Uguaglianza e Diversità in un Contesto di Adozione Internazionale’ in Storie di Questo Mondo. Percorsi di Etnografia delle Migrazioni. ed. F. Bachis and A.M. Pusceddu. Roma: CISU, pp. 91-111.
2012 ‘Mães relutantes, avós maternais e pais esquecidos: o fazer e desfazer das relações de parentesco em Apiao, Chiloé’ Revista Tellus, n. 23, jul./dez. 2012, p.35-58.
2012 ‘Doing Things Properly’: Religious Aspects in Everyday Sociality in Apiao, Chiloé. En L. Debevec and S. Skielke (eds). Ordinary Lives and Grand Schemes: An Anthropology of Everyday Religion. New York and Oxford: Berghahn.
2011 ‘Holding the Saint in One’s Arms. Miracles and Exchange in Apiao, Southern Chile’. En A. Fedele and R. Blanes (eds) Encounters of Body and Soul in Contemporary Religious Practices. Anthropological Reflections. New York and Oxford: Berghahn, pp. 23-42.
2010 ‘Getting tamed to silent rules: experiencing ‘the Other’ in Apiao, southern Chile’. En Anne Sigfrid Grønseth and Donna Lee Davis (eds) ‘Mutuality and Empathy: Self and Other in the Ethnographic Encounter’. Sean Kingston Publishing, pp. 21-34.
2009 ‘Before we were all Catholics’: changing religion in Apiao, southern Chile’. En Robin Wright and Aparecida Vilaça (eds) Native Christians: Modes and Effects of Christianity among Indigenous Peoples of the Americas. Farnham, UK. Burlington, USA: Ashgate, pp. 53-70.