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Adottando un approccio storiografico e critico si indaga l’interazione fra due ambiti delle scienze umane, quello dell’antropologia culturale e quello dell’archeologia, prestando particolare attenzione al contesto italiano e prendendo in considerazione uno degli oggetti e strumenti di indagine comuni: la cultura materiale. L’esame di immaginari scientifici e pratiche accademiche, anche attuali, è il punto di partenza per individuare i percorsi non lineari di avvicinamento e allontanamento fra i due ambiti disciplinari e per un loro inquadramento nei più ampi processi di ridefinizione dei saperi e delle metodologie di indagine tra la fine Ottocento e gli anni Settanta del Novecento. Gli apporti reciproci all’interdisciplinarità sono analizzati attraverso l’operato di tre studiosi: André Leroi-Gourhan, Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli ed Ernesto de Martino.

In the years following Italian Unification, at Pisa Archeology was not taught along the lines advocated in the then-current debate on teaching methods until 1885, when support for a modern approach arrived with Ghirardini and later with his successor Mariani. Yet Archeology remained the poor relation in the Faculty, due in part to teaching staff coming and going for at least 35 years, from 1913 when Mariani was transferred until the arrival of Ferri in 1949. Ghirardini was following the very latest approaches to teaching when, in 1887-88, he created a gypsothèque which was expanded by his successor, Mariani. Over the next few decades, the prestige of the teaching staff at Pisa compensated for its occasional lack of scientific importance. The Chair was held for two years by Giglioli, succeeded by Pace from 1926 to 1930. Between 1930 and 1938, Bianchi Bandinelli taught at Pisa, the major figure in Italian archeology until at least the 1970s and who, with the young Ragghianti, founded the review «Critica d'Arte». Bandinelli's move to Florence led to a decade of instability, although archeology was taught for a short time by Paribeni and Laurenzi and from 1946 by Becatti, some of the best ancient art historians of the day. The arrival of Ferri in 1949 ushered in a profitable period of stability, setting the course for the current School of Archaelogy of Pisa. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]