Annibale Salsa
Annibale Salsa is an anthropologist and member of the Scientific Committee of the Dolomites UNESCO Foundation, he is an expert in Alpine culture and has taught at the University of Genoa. He leads the Scientific Committee of the School for Territorial and Landscape Governance in Trento and the Scientific Committee of the Museum of Traditions and Customs of Trentino, and sits on the Board of the University of the Aosta Valley. Former president of the Italian Alpine Club, he has also crossed the entire Alpine range on foot.
A conversation with anthropologist and Alpine scholar Annibale Salsa investigates the concept of landscape in relation to its natural and cultural dimensions, with a focus on the Alpine context. If landscape is a hinge where nature and culture interact -dimensions that are not separable but deeply interdependent- the Alps in particular constitute a zone of contact between natural and socio-cultural environments and, historically, a site of interweaving and convergence of peoples and cultures. Only in the modern age, with the introduction by nation-states of the oro-hydrographic definition of borders, did they become a line of separation between what nature and history had always united.
The talk was part of the Public Programme 2022, the cycle of public events of the Nomadic School. The encounter took place around the Little Fun Palace roulotte, beneath the three peaks of the Vajolet.
