Research output per year
Research output per year
I completed a postgraduate degree at the University of Milan-Bicocca in 2008. I then moved to Manchester, where in 2014 I received my PhD in Social Anthropology with Visual Media with a research on donso hunters in Burkina Faso. My dissertation looked at the relationship between knowledge, perception and environment among these initiated hunters, with a specific focus on apprenticeship and experience. I usually teach a module on ways of knowing in Mande Africa, part of an introductory course on photography and anthropology, an MA visual anthropology course called Beyond Observational Cinema and a short course in ethnographic documentary for beginners.
My latest book is Sonic Ethnography, written with Nicola Scaldaferri and published with Manchester University Press.
I started working in documentary film, photography and sound recording at the LEAV - Ethnomusicology and Visual Anthropology Lab at the University of Milan since 2005. Among my documentaries are KALANDA - The Knowledge of the Bush, a documentary film on donsoya, the knowledge of initiated hunters in Burkina Faso, and the recent Living the Weather, on people’s everyday experiences of the weather and seasons in the Calder Valley, West Yorkshire. I am also currently working on The Sambla Baan, a film on the music of the Sambla people of Burkina Faso.
Regional specialisation:
Mande Africa, especially Western Burkina Faso.
Topical interests:
Hunting, ecological perception, the senses, sound, phenomenology and embodiment.
I work in documentary film, photography and sound recording.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Non-textual form › Exhibition
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
Irving, A., Ferrarini, L., Rogers, K. & Young, A.
1/11/17 → 14/07/19
Project: Research
Ferrarini, Lorenzo (Recipient), 19 Nov 2015
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Ferrarini, Lorenzo (Recipient), 19 Jun 2015
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Ferrarini, Lorenzo (Recipient), 24 Jul 2021
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Ferrarini, Lorenzo (Recipient), 14 Nov 2021
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Ferrarini, Lorenzo (Recipient), 19 Jun 2015
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Andrew Irving (Other), Alys Young (Other), Lorenzo Ferrarini (Other) & Katherine Rogers (Other)
Activity: Internal positions, career professional development and other › Other › Research
Alys Young (Other), Claudine Storbeck (Other), Andrew Irving (Other), Lorenzo Ferrarini (Other), Katherine Rogers (Other), Alexandra Tomkins (Other) & Shirley Wilson (Other)
Activity: Internal positions, career professional development and other › Other › Research
Lorenzo Ferrarini & Nicola Scaldaferri
1/07/21
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Other
Student thesis: Phd