Who is Alessandro Duranti?

Alessandro Duranti (born September 17, 1950) is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and served as Dean of Social Sciences at UCLA from 2009 to 2016. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

What is Dur Duranti’s intentional continuum?

Duranti introduces into anthropological theory the novel concept of the intentional continuum to describe “a range of graded ways of being disposed or mentally (and sensorially) connected with some entity in the world.”

What did Duranti do for linguistic anthropology?

After completing a treatise on the field of linguistic anthropology for the Cambridge University Press series in linguistics (Duranti 1997), he dedicated himself to editing a number of collections to make recent research on language and culture accessible to a wider range of students and scholars (Duranti 2001a, 2001b, 2004).

Why did Duranti start the jazz aesthetics project?

In 2002, Duranti started a collaboration with legendary jazz guitarist Kenny Burrell, with the goal of documenting jazz culture and teaching jazz aesthetics to students in the social sciences. One product of their collaboration is a course on the culture of jazz aesthetics, where jazz musicians are invited to play and talk about their music.