Giovanni Kezich

Giovanni Kezich

Giovanni Kezich (born 1956), since 1991, has been the director of the Museum of Customs and Traditions of the People of Trentino. Set in the Italian Alps, this is one of the largest Italian establishments of ethnographic conservation. He has read anthropology in Siena and then at UCL (Diploma in Material Culture, then Ph. D. with a thesis on “The peasant poets. The octave of Latium in its social context”, 1989). He has taught Museum Anthropology & Material Culture studies in Venice (Ca’ Foscari) and Cultural Anthropology in Verona. As a concept creator, he is heavily involved in the ongoing documentary film project Carnival King of Europe, co-authored by Michele Trentini.