Cirese, Alberto Mario

Gramsci's Observations on folklore

Conceptions of the world, spontaneous philosophy and class instinct

is part of Anuac. Journal of the italian society of cultural anthropology , 1 , 11 , June, 2022 , pp. 17 - 48

This essay was originally published with the title: Concezioni del mondo, filosofia spontanea, folclore [Conceptions of the world, spontaneous philosophy, folklore] in1969, in the conference proceedings Gramsci e la cultura contemporanea [Gramsci and contemporary culture], edited by Pietro Rossi (Editori Riuniti). An English translation was published in 1982, with the title: Gramsci's Observations on folklore, in the volume Approaches to Gramsci, edited by Anne Show stack Sassoon for Writers& Readers, London. The present edition reproduces the 1982 English edition, with minor modifications. We have added the references to the English translation ofGramsci's Observations on folklore(SCW188-195) and to other notes from the Prison Notebooks (PN2), not yet available when Cirese's essay was translated. We have translated the short unnumbered introductory section, omitted in the 1982 edition.Finally, we have expanded the title, following the version published in the book Intellettuali, folklore, istinto di classe [Intellectuals, folklore, class instinct](Einaudi, 1976). More in general, the text was revised on the basis of the 1976 Italianedition, Concezioni del mondo, filosofia spontanea e istinto di classe nelle Osservazioni sul folklore di Antonio Gramsci. We thank Anne Showstack Sassoon forgranting permission to republish the English translation.

Language	eng
Names	[author] Cirese, Alberto Mario
Subjects	Antropologia Folklore Anthropology Folklore