About us



Luciana Percovich

In the Milanese feminist movement (feminist struggle, feminist group for women's medicine, women's bookshop, women's university), in the 70s she directed the non-fiction series Il Vaso di Pandora for La Salamandra Edizioni. You have written in various magazines dealing with medicine, science, anthropology, mythology. You collaborated with the Laima association of Turin in the organization of the international conferences Culture Indigene di Pace (2012, 2013, 2014 and 2016). Since 2005 she has directed the series of women's history and spirituality Le Civette Saggi for the Venexia publishing house.
Books: Consciousness in the body. Women, health and medicine in the seventies, Franco Angeli, 2005; Dark Shining Mothers. The roots of the sacred and of religions, Venice, Rome, 2007; She who gives life. She who gives shape, Venice, 2009; To the Place of Origins. A path of research of the female self, Castelvecchi, 2016, She who gives life, She who gives form 2021– EBOOK

Elvira Visciola

Born in Puglia, he worked as an architect in Milan, Rome and Pescara where he currently lives. An expert traveller, passionate about history and archaeology, her research pays particular attention to Italian Prehistory through a multidisciplinary method, which aims to combine technical-scientific knowledge and historical knowledge. You are co-designer of the Preistoria In Italia website of which you are the author of most of the archaeological data and you also coordinate the collection.

Alessandra de Nardis

We have set ourselves a great commitment: finding the traces of the civilization that preceded us! One step at a time, one piece of data at a time, the signs will become visible, like the statues that are re-emerging from the earth. I am Graphic, 3D, Web Designer, photographer by necessity, independent researcher in prehistoric archeology and mythology; founder of the gender culture blog-magazine Authors of Civilization and project product manager Prehistory in Italy.

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Arianna Carta

In the 90s I approached feminist studies thanks to Liana Borghi and then graduated in cultural anthropology at the University of Florence with a thesis on female power among the Igbo population (Nigeria). In Florence I collaborated with the Libreria delle donne and obtained a Master's degree in Gender Studies at the Central European University. I am carrying out an interdisciplinary PhD at the University of Koper on female power in Sardinia and the links between Neolithic female representations and the role of women in traditional culture. My other passions are rocks, climbing and dancing.

Barbara Crescimanno

Researcher and teacher at the School of Music and Traditional Dances Arci Tavola Tonda; you collaborate with the UniPa Chair of Ethnomusicology; she coordinates the TrizziRiDonna ethnocoreutic research group and leads a research path on the relationship between music and the sacred feminine; treatment performances of narrative theater, training and education courses between dance, percussion and vocality and the two-year training course CHORÓS Dances, Voices and Rhythms of Southern Italy. In 2019 you created the conference “The sacred in women. Figures and ritual forms in the Mediterranean area between memory and contemporaneity". She is building the WebMaps DEE and NINFE of SICILY and the Tarantella area.

Donatella Livigni

Performer of Singing in Nature, teacher of Vocal Functionality and anthropologist of sound. Born in Naples and raised in Rome and abroad, she deals with research and training in pedagogical-functional practices related to sound, voice and sacred spaces - sites with archaeological, acoustic, symbolic and therapeutic interest.

Eleonora Ambrusiano

Sicilian by birth, with a background in social sciences and education, she has worked in adult education and as a special education teacher. She lives and works in Umbria. She is a curious and passionate seeker, she follows the path of the Sacred Feminine, facilitating circles of women in which to share experiences and knowledge. She is currently working on the rediscovery of the sacred names and traditions of the Goddess in Sicily.

Enrica Tedeschi

Degree in sociology (1974); PhD in Social Theory and Research (1987); Specialization in historical-religious studies (1991): qualifications obtained at La Sapienza in Rome. Research fields: contemporary neo-religious movements; historical cultures of popular devotion (including shamanism and magic); cultural antropology; socio-cultural and communicative processes; methodologies of ethnographic writing.

Francesca Principi

Originally from Ancona, graduated in Archeology at the University of Bologna, later specialized in prehistory with the Erasmus Mundus Master in "Quaternary and prehistory", University of Ferrara. You have participated in archaeological excavations in Italy and have worked for many years in the museum sector, above all with the Museum of Prehistory “L. Donini” of San Lazzaro di Savena (BO) and the National Archaeological Museum of the Marche (AN), mainly dealing with teaching.

Giusi Di Crescenzo

I was about 20 years old in '68 when a "coincidence" gave me the opportunity to experience feminism and start a search towards freedom from the oppression of only rational thought through the encounter with Zen meditation and then with history of the civilization of the Great Mother. I am attracted by quantum physics, by its no longer talking about separate atoms, but of waves of energy, of probabilities, of patterns that change when observed, by its way of seeing the world as Shamans and Witches have always done.

Maria Laura Leone

Archaeologist, palethnologist and professor of art history, she carries out research in prehistoric art and cognitive archaeology. Among her works, the interpretation of the Stele Daunie, as simulacra that reveal the use of the Opium Poppy, and the paintings of Grotta dei Cervi (in Porto Badisco, Otranto) as expressions deriving from Modified States of Consciousness. She collaborated with the Camuno Center for Prehistoric Studies in Valcamonica, participated in research missions between France, China and Israel and held conferences in Italy, Sweden and Greece. In 2001 he created the online scientific journal www.artepreistorica.com. On the same site and on www.grottacervibadisco.it you can read and download some of his publications.

Marina Leopizzi

Palermo passionate about archeology and in particular the works of Marija Gimbutas, known thanks to the Women's Library UdiPalermo of which she has been a member for more than 20 years. She is looking for expressions of the Goddess Civilization in her own island.

Sarah Perini

Graduated in 2003 in Foreign Languages ​​​​and Literature at the University of Turin, with Cultural History specialization, she participated in anthropological masters and seminars at the Interdepartmental Center for Women's Studies of the University of Turin with Anna Brawer and Luciana Percovich, deepening the gender studies and the work of Maria Gimbutas and Riane Eisler.

Contributions:

Cristina Muntoni, Daniela Degan, Francesca Re, Francesca Rebbelato, Grazia Dentoni, Laura Violet Rimola, Oretta Di Carlo, Roberto Marras, Susanna Magnelli, Tatiana Melaragni.