Valentina BONIFACIO

Position
Full Professor
Telephone
041 234 9826
E-mail
valentina.bonifacio@unive.it
Academic discipline
Demoethnoanthropological Sciences [SDEA-01/A]
Website
https://www.unive.it/web/en/19197/people/valentina.bonifacio(personal record)
Office
Department of Humanities
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.humanities
Where: Malcanton Marcorà

Office hours

Teaching activity current year

ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES [LMR10]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)

Teaching activity previous years

ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES [LM10]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)

ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES [LMR10]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)

ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES [LM10]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)

ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES [LM10]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)

ANTROPOLOGIA CULTURALE, ETNOLOGIA, ETNOLINGUISTICA [FM10]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)

CONSERVAZIONE E GESTIONE DEI BENI E DELLE ATTIVITÀ CULTURALI [FT1]
Laurea

ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES [LM10]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)

ANTROPOLOGIA CULTURALE, ETNOLOGIA, ETNOLINGUISTICA [FM10]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)

CONSERVAZIONE E GESTIONE DEI BENI E DELLE ATTIVITÀ CULTURALI [FT1]
Laurea

ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES [LM10]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)

Activities and research skills

Academic discipline
Discipline demoetnoantropologiche [SDEA-01/A]
Geographic areas in which the research experience mainly applies
Internazionale: America Latina
Known languages
Spagnolo (scritto: avanzato parlato: avanzato)
Inglese (scritto: avanzato parlato: avanzato)
Guarani (scritto: base parlato: intermedio)
Participation in editorial boards of scientific journals/book series
2022-presente; Editorial committee, Visual Anthropology (ISSN: 1545-5920)
2022-presente; Comitato di redazione, Lagoonscapes (ISSN: 2785-2709)
2017-presente; Membro del comitato scientifico, collana "Etnografie", direttore Glauco Sanga, CLEUP
Main departmental research areas and fields
Area: Storia e Antropologia Linea: Antropologia
Diritti delle popolazioni indigene ed industrie estrattive in Sud America;
Description:
Paraguay; indigenous people rights in South America; extractivism: tannin industry
Keywords:
Cultural anthropology, Geopolitics, Colonial history
ATECO code:
[85.42] - istruzione universitaria e post-universitaria; accademie e conservatori
Domesticazione e colonizzazione
Description:
Domestication and colonization
Keywords:
History of agriculture, Cultural anthropology, Geopolitics
ATECO code:
[85.42] - istruzione universitaria e post-universitaria; accademie e conservatori
Utilizzo di strumenti audio-visivi nella ricerca etnografica
Description:
Use of audio-visual tools in ethnographic research
Keywords:
Cultural anthropology, Audiovisual communication, Social anthropology
ATECO code:
[85.42] - istruzione universitaria e post-universitaria; accademie e conservatori
L'industria estrattiva nel Chaco paraguaiano: attori, conflitti e prospettiva storica
SSD:
M-DEA/01
L'utilizzo dei mezzi audio-visivi come strumento di ricerca etnografica
SSD:
M-DEA/01
La colonizzazione come domesticazione: il ruolo dei bovini nella costruzione della società post-coloniale in Sud America
SSD:
M-DEA/01
[come supervisor di Diego Villar] MOTOBOOM – The Current Impact of Motorisation on Amazonian Indigenous Peoples
Funding body:
H2020 Marie-Sklodowska Curie Actions - Individual Fellowship
Type:
H2020 - Excellence Science - Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions
Role in the project:
NS
Starting date:
Year: 2022 Length in months: 24
[come supervisor] LANLOSS - Landscapes of Loss: Mapping the Affective Experience of Deforestation Among Diverse Social Groups in the South American Chaco.
Funding body:
H2020 Marie-Sklodowska Curie Actions - Individual Fellowship
Type:
H2020 - Excellence Science - Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions
Role in the project:
NS
Starting date:
Year: 2020 Length in months: 48
[come supervisor] NAMELESS - The Invisible Women: Nameless and Forgotten Stories of the Rubber Boom (Bolivian Amazonia, 19-20th centuries)
Funding body:
H2020 Marie-Sklodowska Curie Actions - Individual Fellowship
Type:
H2020 - Excellence Science - Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions
Role in the project:
NS
Sito di progetto:
https://pric.unive.it/projects/nameless-stories/home
Starting date:
Year: 2021 Length in months: 24
Other members of the research group:
Lorena CORDOBA

Publication highlights

Bonifacio René Ramírez: biografía de un líder indígena en el cruce entre la industria taninera, los misioneros salesianos y las luchas de reivindicación indígena en Sudamérica in Zelda Franceschi, Diego Villar,, Antropologia en singular; historias menores de las tierras bajas sudamericanas, Aubervillier, IHEAL, pp. 54-80 (ISBN 978-2-37154-193-1)
2025, Book Article - ARCA card: 10278/5093327


Bonifacio Trabajadores Maskoy en la industria taninera del Chaco Paraguayo: autonomia, dependencia y declive in Valentina Bonifacio, Reimaginando el Gran Chaco Sudamericano, Buenos Aires, Editorial Biblios, pp. 277-298 (ISBN 978-987-814-351-4)
2025, Book Article - ARCA card: 10278/5093308


LORENA CORDOBA; ZELDA FRANCESCHI; VALENTINA BONIFACIO Introducción. Mujeres indígenas y el trabajo asalariado en las tierras bajas sudamericanas, siglos XIX y XX in ANUAC, vol. 13, pp. 9-22 (ISSN 2239-625X)
- URL correlato 2024, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5066002


Valentina Bonifacio Of Feral and Obedient Cows: Colonization as Domestication in the Paraguayan Chaco in CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY, vol. 38, pp. 8-35 (ISSN 0886-7356)
DOI 2023, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5015325


Valentina Bonifacio; Alessandro Maresca From sagua’a to Ox-Dollars Cattle and Human Assemblages in the Paraguayan Chaco in LAGOONSCAPES, vol. 2, pp. 119-143 (ISSN 2785-2709)
DOI 2022, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5015324


List of publications

Curriculum vitae