Dr Paolo Fortis' Outputs (3)

Smoking Tobacco and Swinging the Chicha: On Different Modes of Sociality among Guna ('Kuna') People (2015)
Book Chapter
Fortis, P. (2015). Smoking Tobacco and Swinging the Chicha: On Different Modes of Sociality among Guna ('Kuna') People. In A. Russell, & E. Rahman (Eds.), The master plant : tobacco in lowland South America (199-214). Bloomsbury

Kinship in Anthropology (2015)
Book Chapter
Overing, J., Fortis, P., & Margiotti, M. (2015). Kinship in Anthropology. In J. Wright (Ed.), International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences (36-43). (2nd ed.). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-08-097086-8.12098-7

This article outlines the development of kinship studies in anthropology from their beginning to our days. It reviews classic debates on descent and marriage, the role of gender studies in rethinking kinship categories and the more recent contributio... Read More about Kinship in Anthropology.

Designs, Skills and Objects in Guna Life (2015)
Book Chapter
Fortis, P., & Margiotti, M. (2015). Designs, Skills and Objects in Guna Life. In M. Flitsch (Ed.), Crafting beauty and layering the world in Panama (19-29). Ethnographic Museum at the University of Zurich

As an everyday garment and a commodified indigenous textile, mola (pl. molagana) has long captivated the imagination of tourists, art collectors and researchers. Amongst their distinctive features, molagana display an almost infinite repertoire of de... Read More about Designs, Skills and Objects in Guna Life.