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Based on research at the Regional Center of Traditional Medi cine of Bandiagara (Mali), this paper outlines characteristics of the Dogon systems of traditional health care, with particu lar reference to mental disorders. After considering the characteristics of some therapeutic figures (diviners, healers, etc.) and discussing the major nosologic categories inherent in mental disorders, the role of a complementary (semantic, hermeneutic) approach is emphasized together with the need to correlate the use and social significance of nosologic and therapeutic ritual categories with present cultural changes.

Da alcuni anni l'antropologia e le scienze sociali sono attraversate da un virulento dibattito intorno a concetti come soggettività, modi della soggettivazione, dominio, forme di resistenza ecc. La nostra introduzione intende ripensare alcuni aspetti della cosiddetta Teoria Critica e contribuire a "rigenerare" la nozione estenuata di agency. Allo stesso tempo, la nostra analisi vuole introdurre i quattro lavori del dossier che la rivista Anuac ha consacrato a uno dei panel della conferenza Una teoria per capire, per agire, per impegnarsi. La lezione di Tullio Seppilli, tenutasi a Perugia nel 2018. Il presupposto delle nostre considerazioni è la natura sociale delle forme dello psichismo e dell'esperienza individuale, e un'antropologia medica critica in grado di disarticolare tanto l'uso neoliberale di termini come "scelta", "trasformazione", "opportunità", quanto la retorica del tardo capitalismo, al cui interno la nozione di agency sembra spesso tradurre solo l'arte della sopravvivenza, la violenza dell'adattamento o le nuove espressioni dell'assoggettamento.

Ethnopsychiatry is today a contested field, in which concepts and terms such as ethnicity, identity, culture, citizenship, traditional therapies or symbolic efficacy are used in a very controversial way. Recent accusations of 'racism' against some ethnopsychiatrists have contributed to making more obscure the deep roots of these issues and controversies. Little attention has been paid to analysing the complex legacy of colonial psychiatry, as well as the relationships among current definitions of 'culture' and 'belonging', post-colonial subjectivities and migration. In this article, the authors briefly analyse the contributions of Italian ethnopsychiatry and investigate the hidden expressions of racism and prejudice still characterizing mental health workers' attitudes toward immigrants. It is argued that a 'generative' and community-based ethnopsychiatry can challenge the hegemony of western psychiatry and improve the quality of therapeutic strategies.

L'article questionne un aspect particulier de ce que les auteurs appellent les « archives postcoloniales » : les pratiques menant à l'adoptabilité d'enfants nés de parents immigrés. En s'appuyant sur les données de leur recherche ethnographique concernant la condition de parents immigrés dans le nord de l'Italie, les auteurs interrogent la généalogie coloniale des procédures thérapeutiques et des formes d'assistance sociale appliquées aux familles étrangères, ainsi que le « dispositif » qui les transforme en descendances dépossédées.

Regimes of Responsibility in Africa ­analyses the transformations that discourses and practices of responsibility have undergone in Africa. By doing so, this collection develops a stronger grasp of the specific political, economic and social transformations taking place today in Africa. At the same time, while focusing on case studies from the African continent, the work enters into a dialogue with the emerging corpus of studies in the field of ethics, adding to it a set of analytical perspectives that can help further enlarge its theoretical and geographical scope