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DOROTHY LOUISE ZINNDorothy Louise Zinn is a cultural anthropologist (Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin, 1994) and writer based in Matera, Italy. Since 1998 she has served as an adjunct faculty member at the Università degli Studi della Basilicata, where her courses have focused mainly on issues related to the presence of immigrant children in the Italian school system. Dorothy has published research conducted in Southern Italy on youth unemployment, patronage/clientelism, immigration, multiculturalism and intercultural education. She recently published the life history of a retired schoolteacher and the first report on immigration for Matera province. Her book on patronage in Southern Italy, La Raccomandazione (Donzelli, 2001), won a Pitré international award in anthropology in 2002. Furthermore, she has translated a number of anthropological texts from Italian into English, including a critically acclaimed annotated translation, The Land of Remorse (Free Association Books, 2005), a classic ethnography by Italian anthropologist Ernesto De Martino. Since 1999 she has been a collaborator of the Italian anthropology journal, Archivio di Etnografia. Since 1998 Dorothy has worked with the award-winning immigrant advocacy group Associazione Tolbà of Matera (www.associazionetolba.org), of which she is currently President. Among other things, the Association operates a small press, La Biblioteca di Tolbà, which publishes multilingual books with a particular interest in social issues and intercultural activity; the proceeds from the sales of these books finance various projects in Italy and abroad. Dorothy is married and has two daughters. She and her husband own
and operate the Locanda
di San Martino, a boutique hotel in the Sassi Historical
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