Carlo Severi


Carlo Severi is an Italian anthropologist who is Professor at the . He is noted for his studies of ritual, image/imagination, and social memory

Education

He studied philosophy at Università Statale, Milano, Italy where he obtained his master's degree in 1976 with a dissertation in anthropology. During his PhD in anthropology at , he was one of the last students of Claude Lévi-Strauss who was also one of the juries of his doctoral thesis of the third cycle in social anthropology.

Career

He is currently Director of Research, Chair in "Anthropology of the memory" at in Paris and Director of Research at of France. He is also a member of the of Collège de France since 1985, and a member of the Department of Research in Museum quai Branly in Paris.
He has published many articles and books, including a key contribution to the study of ritual, . His most famous work was originally published in Italian as "Il percorso e la voce: un'antropologia della memoria" and later in French Le Principe de la chimère: Une anthropologie de la mémoire, has been published in English in 2015 by . He edited a number of seminal collections: a special issue of the journal L'Homme entitled "Image and anthropology" and a special issue of , .
From the year of 1978 to 1984, he received several scholarships and financial aid from Collège de France, and CNRS etc.
He was often invited as a visiting scholar or invited professor by overseas institutes and universities, such as King's College, Cambridge University, Getty Research Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, Santa Monica, California, University of Heidelberg, Germany, Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, National Museum, University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil etc.