The Lombroso Museum “Cesare Lombroso” Museum of criminal anthropology University of Turin

Collana: Patrimonio Culturale 

Autori: Philippe Artières; Fulvio Barbaro; Marco Beretta; Viviane Borges; Alessandro Botta; Mirta Bottai; Elena Bovo; Barbara Bracco; Maddalena Carli; Carolina Castellano; Cristina Cilli; Emanuela Ciroldi; Emanuele D’Antonio; Marc Décimo; Mara Fausone; Francesco Gallino; Marco Galloni; Pierangelo Gentile; Giacomo Giacobini; Mary Gibson; Erika Grasso; Nicoletta Leonardi; Giuseppe Leonetti; Matteo Loconsole; Matteo Machet; Giancarla Malerba; Gianluigi Mangiapane; Bruno Maureille; Paolo Mazzarello; Katia Mazzoni; Federica Merlo; Silvano Montaldo; Chiara Nenci; Franco Orlandi; Alessio Petrizzo; Pierre Piazza; Agnese Picco; Alessandro Porro; Nadia Pugliese; Francesco Rotondo; Claudio Sarzotti; Natale Spineto; Giulio Tatasciore; Maria Teresa Milicia; Roberto Toni; Enrico Trogu; Gianfranco Venturini; Sofia Venturoli; Renzo Villa.

Curatori: Silvano Montaldo, Cristina Cilli

Traduttori: Katherine Clifton

Editore: Hapax Editore 

Anno di pubblicazione: 2024 
Paese di pubblicazione e copyright: Italia © 2024 Hapax Editore Srl
Lingua: Inglese
Rilegatura: Brossura fresata
Dati: 28 x 23 cm; 224 pagine; ill.

Descrizione: This volume undertakes to reflect the complexity of the Lombroso Museum; not an easy task as it simultaneously means attempting to understand - and transmit - the intricate conceptual system of the founder of Criminal Anthropology and going beyond his thought, looking at the collections he collected with a renewed gaze.
Thus, thanks to the contribution of 49 authors - different in terms of training, age and field of study - an attempt has been made to unravel the great Lombroso skein through three sections. Knowledge and Science - which account for the complexity of knowledge and the influences of positivist scientists at the dawn of the 20th century. The Museum Collections - which offer an overview of the extraordinary variety offered by the Museum; The Objects and Exhibits - which, through detailed fact sheets, offer a close look at some of the most fascinating objects in the collection, whether on display or not.

Through the tale of obsolete scientific disciplines, it is possible to catch a glimpse of the great laboratory that was late 19th-century science: an enormous tree of knowledge that gave birth to branches that are still flourishing and others that have become withered over time, which all too often risk being forgotten, "crushed by the steamroller of scientific progress". Moreover, the findings that were supposed to be 'evidence' of a scientifically outdated theory now have a side effect: they snatch from the fate of physical decomposition traces of a culture, that of the popular and of the 'alienated', which would otherwise have disappeared. These traces are analysed here - by historians and art historians - as documents, but also in their purely aesthetic and symbolic value.