Combat practices and martial arts in contemporary societies

Dario Nardini holds a tenure-track position in Cultural and Social Anthropology at the Department of Historical and Geographic Sciences and the Ancient World (DiSSGeA) at the University of Padua. His ethnographic research focuses on Breton wrestling, surfing in Australia, Calcio Storico Fiorentino, and the informal economies linked to food production and consumption in Tuscany. He has explored various issues at the heart of contemporary anthropology, including the body, sport, cultural identity, heritage, the imagination, and research methodologies. He is the editorial coordinator of the journal Lares and the editor of the Ledizioni series Sport, Body, Culture. His publications include Surfers Paradise. Un’etnografia del surf sulla Gold Coast australiana (Ledizioni, 2022); Il Calcio Storico Fiorentino. La rievocazione tra patrimonio e “identità” (Olschki, 2023); “Economie informali: neoruralismo e filiere alimentari in Italia centrale”, monographic issue of Lares (with Fabio Dei, 2023).