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Nostro Sud di Fosco Maraini
The project Nostro Sud (Our Sud), one of the few left unfinished in Fosco Maraini's long professional life, represents a highly important episode in his personal story. Despite the fact that he was always very reticent in speaking of the genesis, development and outcome of this undertaking in detail, the part of his photographic archive devoted to the Italian South still today bears the marks of a constant activity. A stratification of successive rearrangements and regrouping, and of repeated selections of first, second and third choices, bear witness to a need that never left him and that was repeatedly taken up in the last years of his life to give a definitive and satisfying form to this rich photographic material.
Maraini
Maraini: Acts of Photography, Acts of Low is an extraordinary selection of the photography of Fosco Maraini in a beautifully printed, multilanguage, oversized hardcover edition. Maraini's career as an ethnologist, photographer, filmmaker, mountaineer, writer and professor spans a period of more than 60 years. Perhaps best known for his work on Tibet and Japan, Maraini has extensively photographed the Karakoram and Hindu Kush mountain ranges of central Asia, Southeast Asia and the south of his native Italy. His work on Tibet and on the Ainu people of Northern Japan is perhaps the most important historical documentation of two lost cultures. Maraini features four essays in three languages (English, Italian, and Japanese) and more than 100 black-and-white and color images.
Collected Writings of Fosco Maraini
Fosco Maraini, who died in June 2004 at the age of 91, worked closely right up to the end with friend and colleague Adriana Boscaro (University of Venice) in determining the contents of his volume. Known also as an outstanding photographer and anthropologist, especially for his work with the Tibetans, it was Japan, beginning with his gateway study Meeting with Japan (1959) that endured and became the principal focus among his many his interests and in his academic life. He was also known for his close, life-long association with and research work on the Ainu in Hokkaido.
The Island of the Fisherwomen
The author went to Japan to photograph the amphibious communities where the Ama women, who are accomplished divers, earn a living fishing for mollusks 50 feet underwater. On the tiny island of Hekura, he discovered the charming innocence of a simple way of live. This books describes their lifestyle and their work.
Secret Tibet
Fosco Maraini looks back at the world he first unfolded nearly 50 years ago in his classic account of the visits he made to Tibet. He brings back to life a world which will never be seen again. In the tradition of Italian travellers from the days of Marco Polo, Maraini went to Tibet to learn, to understand, to give and to receive. His encounter with the people of Tibet, from princesses to peasants, aided as he was by a good knowledge of the language, is a true meeting of minds. The text, which attests to the disciplines of the scholar allied to the sensitivity of the poet, is enriched by the narrative value of the author's photographs, including many Buddhist temple artefacts now forever lost. "From the Hardcover edition.
Maraini
Fosco Maraini was born in 1912 in Florence, Italy. His career as an ethnologist, photographer, film
Meeting with Japan
Interpretive description of modern Japan by an Italian linguist and photographer who spent many years there as teacher and traveler. Includes over 150 photographs, 36 in color.
Secret Tibet
"Fosco Maraini visited Tibet in 1937 and again in 1948. In 1951 he published Secret Tibet, an account that was a synthesis of the two journeys. After an interval of close on 50 years he returned to the text to revise, augment and update it in the light of the bruising historical realities of the Chinese occupation and the destruction of much of Tibet's cultural heritage, particularly during the violence of the "Cultural Revolution."" "This book is not a guidebook: the author's studies and journeys concentrated on the valleys and passes that bring travellers from India via Sikkim on their way to the forbidden city of Lhasa. Maraini spent much time in villages and monasteries along the way, at...
The Silent Duchess
Finalist for the International Man Booker Prize, winner of the Premio Campiello, short-listed for the Independent Foreign Fiction Award upon its first English-language publication in the UK, and published to critical acclaim in fourteen languages, this mesmerizing historical novel by one of Italy's premier women writers is available in the United States for the first time. The Silent Duchess is the story of Marianna Ucr a, the victim of a mysterious childhood trauma that has left her deaf and mute, trapped in a world of silence. In luminous language that conveys both the keen visual sight and the deep human insight possessed by her remarkable main character, Dacia Maraini captures the splendor and the corruption of Marianna's world and the strength of her unbreakable spirit.
East and West Entangled (17th-21st Centuries)
«History has to reorient», as the historian and sociologist Andre Gunder Frank observed. In the global or globalised age, a culture is no longer regarded as a discrete entity, but rather as a hybrid formation that interacts with other cultures in an incessant process of multidirectional exchange. Bringing together «Eastern» and «Western» case studies ranging from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries, this volume reminds historians that to conduct transcultural analyses they need to be alert to the multiple ways, comic intents included, in which difference is negotiated within contacts and encounters – from selective appropriation to rejection or resistance.
