Lina Fruzzetti, anthropology as a way of giving back, by Filipa Lowndes Vicente

• Filipa Lowndes Vicente ^[1] (entrev.) ; Lina Fruzzetti ^[2] (entrevistado)
  1. [1] Universidade de Lisboa

     Universidade de Lisboa

     Socorro, Portugal

     
  2. [2] Brown University

     Brown University

     City of Providence, Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Análise social, ISSN 0003-2573, Vol. 56, Nº. 241, 2021, págs. 788-813
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This interview with Lina Fruzzetti, a Brown University Professor at the anthropology department, is part of a series of interviews I did when I spent the academic year of 2016-17, in Providence (Rhode Island, usa): the first semester as a visiting scholar in the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies (Michael Teague flad/Brown Visiting Professorship) and throughout the second semester working on several research and writing projects, all the while attending the countless activities on open offer at Brown. It was during this period that I had the privilege to meet and spend some time with the six women scholars I decided to interview and plan to publish at Análise Social:

    Areej Sabbagh-Khoury (Palestine), Ariella Azoulay (Israel), Leela Gandhi (India), Lina Fruzzetti (Eritrea/Italy), Meltem Toksoz (Turkey), and Vazira Zamindar (Pakistan).

    What all these women had in common was that they came from places in the world far from the us and Europe. They came from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, and all had a reflexive and politicized relationship with the place where they were born in and resided for some part of their lives. Some had been in the us for many years, decades often, after going there to study a first degree – Lina Fruzzetti from Sudan when still a teenager, and Vazira Zamindar from Pakistan. Meltem Toksoz had lived in the us for years, earned her doctorate there, but then returned to Turkey. Areej Sabbagh-Khoury, a Palestinian, and the youngest of the six, had just arrived at Brown in 2016 for a post-doctoral fellowship. Others, like Ariella Azoulay and Leela Gandhi, had already studied and taught elsewhere in the world and in the us, before being appointed by Brown as part of a recent university policy to hire exceptional academic women.