Par-delà matière et esprit. Parcours cosmologiques et scientifiques dans la théorie et les pratiques de l'anthroposophie.

With this article, dedicated to the analysis of a typically Western binary, that between matter and spirit, the author confirms a line of research to which she has dedicated 5 articles of international impact, dedicated to an original and innovative sector of study and which she herself defines as "anthropology of anthroposophy". Based on ethnographic research lasting ten years, in communities of anthroposophists who dedicate themselves to alternative agriculture, this research analyzes how anthroposophical cosmology can be analyzed as an analogist ontology. In this contribution in particular the author goes on to analyze how in this ontology the matter/spirit binary is completely overcome, both in theory (analyzed in the anthroposophical literature from which the informants draw inspiration), and in the practices of agricultural cultivation investigated ethnographically with fieldwork in a community of Italian anthroposophists. The contribution is part of a volume that collects the results of two international conferences of an international research group in which the author participates. The object of ethnographic research are alternative agricultures to arrive at a broader theoretical reflection on the critique of modernity, of technology, of liberal economies, of the dominant naturalistic ontological vision. The work is comparative and the new theme of spirituality became emerging when the different reflections were scientifically compared. Conferences, research group and publications therefore mark a new current theme for anthropology and sociology, and the possibility of expanding to ever new ethnographic contexts.