@article{Zito_2018, title={Scene da un "matrimonio". Performance, genere e identità a Napoli}, volume={5}, url={https://rivisteclueb.it/index.php/etnoantropologia/article/view/261}, abstractNote={<p>In this paper, after having synthetically reconstructed the traditional role of the <em>femminielli</em> in Neapolitan society, intertwining linguistic analysis with historical, anthropological, literary and mythographic sources, and highlighting complex processes of molding and reshaping, I will focus on the singular ritual of “marriage”, by using visual material collected in the field during an ethnographic research carried out in Naples in 2010. Combining a perspective of diachronic analysis with a synchronic one, the deep cultural nature of the practices of construction of gender and of the social identity of such <em>gender variant</em> subjectivities is shown through the analysis of a still persistent traditional ritual device in a contemporary metropolitan context. Concepts as <em>performance</em> and <em>gynomimetics</em> are used for this analysis and the strong participation of the neighborhood community in their social life is highlighted.</p>}, number={2}, journal={EtnoAntropologia}, author={Zito, Eugenio}, year={2018}, month={mar.}, pages={417–462} }