Lorenzo D´Angelo
wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter im Gold-Matters-Projekt
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Lorenzo D’Angelo is a cultural anthropologist interested in natural resources and extractive industries, environmental and economic anthropology. Lorenzo co-founded with Robert Pijpers the EASA Anthropology of Mining network and has conducted field research in Italy, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Uganda.
In Sierra Leone he has examined different aspects of artisanal mining (e.g. religion, technology, temporality, work ethics and morality). In Tanzania his ethnographic research focused on agro-pastoral systems and climate change among Maasai communities. Currently, he works on gold mining in Uganda alongside Professor Eleanor Fisher on the EU Horizon 2020 funded NORFACE/Belmont project Gold Matters: Sustainability Transformations in Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining: Trans-Regional and Multi-Actor Perspectives
In general terms, Lorenzo’s work advocates the value of an approach that links together micro- and macro-historical analyses and establishes a dialogue between ethnography and history of practices and imaginaries. Indeed, his ethnographic research in Sierra Leone and Uganda has been complemented by archival investigations conducted between 2008 and 2019 in various institutions, including the United Kingdom’s National Archives, the Selection Trust Archives at the London School of Economics, the British Newspapers Library, and the National Library in Freetown, Sierra Leone.