Back to the Future: memories, horizons and reflections of anthropology. Interview with Ugo Fabietti

More than an interview, this is a mee, ng/discussion with one of the most important fgures of Italian anthropology, Professor Ugo Fabiet. His words ofer innumerable points of re: ec, on about what anthropology is, and the direc, on it should take. They also accompany us along a path in which the roots of anthropology themselves re-emerge: travel, encountering cultural otherness, epochs, feldwork and rela, vism. He provides a look at the theore, cal structure of the discipline and also its poten, al applica, ons, at its social and ins, tu, onal recogni, on. Professor Fabiet, presen, ng anthropology as "solitary knowledge", details with passion the richness and the instruments deriving "from the mee, ng with the other". He presents it in an essence of theory and experience. which is a\ er all the quintessence of anthropology itself.