Perché l’antropologia ci aiuta a fare politica (e a vivere meglio)

There is one thing that anthropology, more than other disciplines, helps to make visible: very little of what concerns us as human beings is natural, that is, imprinted as instinct, and must rather be learned from our fellow human beings. In this extraordinary time due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the consequences of drastic containment measures on our individual and collective lives, anthropology allows us to understand a little better precisely those changes that, willingly or unwillingly, we are going through. But how can anthropological knowledge help us in good politics? If making politics means understanding the context, in order to try to change it according to a project, in the construction of his answer Piero Vereni shows precisely the cultural transformation taking place: the double link between social distancing and herd immunity, and between freedom and security, as well as the change in the ritual rhythms of space and time, and the very notions of sociality and rationality.