Carolina Orsini

Tenured teacher

Department of Humanities
Faculty of Arts and Tourism

Contacts

Email
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Individual tutorial

Timetable

During the first term of the 2018-19 academic year, individual tutorials will be held by appointment to be arranged by e-mail in room 2235 on the second floor of the IULM 2 building.

Curriculum Vitae

Carolina Orsini (1972), archaeologist, holds a MA in Archeology at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa and a PhD in Anthropology at the University of Bologna (2005) with a thesis on the archeology of the Sierra de Ancash (Peru).

Since 2003 she has been the curator of the archaeological and ethnographic collections of the Municipality of Milan, now exhibited at the Museum of Cultures. She curated the first permanent exhibition ("Objects of encounter", October 2015) and the current one dedicated to globalization ("Global Milan. The world seen from here", September 2021), as well as several temporary exhibitions and two catalogs.

In addition to the scientific activity on heritage, she conceived and promoted various public programs for the intercultural accessibility to the Mudec heritage.

Since 1998 she has been carrying out fieldworks in Peru and Argentina, with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Italy, collaborating with numerous local research institutes.

She works with the Italian Army, as well as with several Italian courts, to combat and prevent the illicit trafficking of American archaeological objects in Italy.

She is the author of several Andean essays, including two volumes on the Incas, two on the populations of central northern Peru and numerous scientific articles in different languages.

Since 2009 she has been on the board of directors of the Passaré Foundation for the promotion of primary arts.

Since 2019 she has been a member of the international advisory board of the magazine "Scientific Museology".

Since 2019 she has been a member of the select council of the International Committee on Pre-Columbian Textiles.

From 2019 she participates in the works of the international workshop "Tout passe sauf le passé" (Everything passes except the past), organized by the international network of Goethe-Institut in collaboration with the African Museum Tervuren, Culturgest Lisbon and the Museu Etnològic i de Cultures del Món (Barcelona).

Her main research interests include: the archeology of the central Andes, the post-colonial museology, the globalization through objects, the reparation and restitution of ethnographic heritage.

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Publications

Pubblicazioni recenti (2013-2022)

Volumi

C. Orsini, Arqueología de Chacas, Pendragon e-book, Bologna, 2014.

C. Orsini – E. Benozzi, Archaeology of an Andean Pacarina, BAR (British Archaeological Reports), Oxford, 2013.

Curatela volumi
A. Herrera-C. Orsini (a cura di), 2017, Ancash. Arqueología, antropología e historia del paisaje, "Indiana", 34.1, Berlin.

Cataloghi a stampa

AAVV, Milano Globale, Il mondo visto da qui. Catalogo delle opere e guida al percorso del Museo delle Culture,Il Sole 24ore Cultura, Milano, 2021.

C. Orsini – L.F. Villacorta Ostolaza, Le avventure di un esploratore. Antonio Raimondi e la scoperta del Perù, Catalogo della mostra (Mudec- Museo delle Culture, 28 Ottobre 2016 - 26 Febbraio 2017), ed. Biblios, Lima, 2017.

C. Orsini – A. Antonini, Oggetti d’incontro. Catalogo delle opere e guida al percorso del Museo delle Culture,Il Sole 24ore Cultura, Milano, 2015.

Contributi in opere collettive e atti congressi

C. Orsini, E. Benozzi, c.s., La ocupación Recuay de sitios Formativos: algunos ejemplos de la zona de Conchucos, actas
Primer Simposio Internacional sobre la Cultura Recuay (Ancash, Perú 100-700 dC), Universidad Nacional Santiago Antúnez de Mayolo, Escuela de Arqueología & University of East Anglia, Sainsbury Research Unit, Huaraz, 12 al 14 de julio del 2017.

C. Orsini, A. Antonini, 2020, Life of a Peruvian art collector: Guillermo Schmidt Pizarro and the fostering of public collections of pre-Hispanic art in the first half of the 20th century, PreColumbian Textile Conference VIII / Jornadas de Textiles PreColombinos VIII, ed. Lena Bjerregaard and Ann Peters (Lincoln, NE: Zea Books, 2020). https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/zeabook/

Williams V., Castellanos M., Benozzi E., Lanzelotti S., Lane K., Coll L., Orsini C., 2020, Atajos inkas. Caminos, GIS y modelos de menor costo en el valle Calchaqui, Salta, Noroeste Argentino, Qhapaq Nan III. Actas del III Taller Internacional en torno al Sistema Vial Inkaico (en prensa).
A. Herrera, C. Orsini, 2017, Ancash. Arqueología, antropología e historia del paisaje. Introducción al dossier, "Indiana", 34.1, Berlin, pp. 9-12.

C. Orsini, E. Benozzi, Los ancestros, las llamas y el agua. Reconstruyendo prácticas rituales junto a la laguna de Puruhuay (Ancash, Perú), "Indiana", 34.1, Berlin, pp.61-94, 2017.

E. Canghiari, C. Orsini, Con la ayuda de los abuelitos...La frecuentación de las necrópolis prehispánicas en Ancash entre práctica social y culto a los antepasados, en M. Villavicencio (a cura di), Actas del congreso Peru mágico III, Lima, 2014.

C. Orsini, La representación del espacio en la cerámica arquitectónica Recuay, pp. 70-77, in A. Gavazzi (a cura di), Microcosmos, vision andina de los espacios prehispánicos, Apus Graph editore, Lima, 2013.

Articoli in riviste scientifiche

C. Orsini, 2020, The Museo delle Culture and its audience: A five-year balance Archeostorie. Journal of Public Archaeology. 3, 2020.

C. Orsini et al., 2020, Proyecto arqueológico argentino-italiano en el sector medio del valle Calchaquí. Avances y perspectivas, Cuadernos de Humanidades-N° 32, 2020.

V. Williams, C. Orsini, E. Benozzi, Castellanos M.C., 2015, Primeros resultados de las investigaciones en Brealito y Luracatao (dpto Molinos, Salta), Relaciones, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Antropología (SAA), Buenos Aires.

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