Amalia Signorelli (1934) is an anthropologist. She studied with Ernesto De Martino and has taught cultural anthropology in the Universities of Urbino, Naples and Rome, at the E.H.E.S.S. in Paris and at the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana of Mexico City. She has worked as a consultant for the EEC and the International Labour Organisation on emigration. In her works, translated into several languages, she has studied cultural modernisation processes in Southern Italy, migration and the status of women. Her studies on urban anthropology are considered ground-breaking. She collaborates with the newspaper il Fatto quotidiano and with several television networks as a commentator. Her publications include: Chi può e chi aspetta. Giovani e clientelismo in un’area interna del Mezzogiorno (Liguori, 1983); Migrazioni e incontri etnografici (Sellerio, 2006); Antropologia culturale (McGraw-Hill, 2007); Ernesto De Martino. Teoria antropologica e metodologia della ricerca (L’Asino d’oro, 2015); and La vita al tempo della crisi (Einaudi, 2016).