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Marco Motta

Marco Motta is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Bern. His first monograph – Esprits fragiles. Réparer les liens ordinaires à Zanzibar [Fragile Spirits: Repairing Ordinary Ties in Zanzibar] (BSN Press, 2019) – explores ritual healing practices and daily care among the urban poor in Zanzibar. He is currently doing research in Haiti on the intersections between legal and extrajudicial justice, ordinary violence, and mystical crimes. In addition, he is undergoing a critical examination of the inheritance of Wittgensteinian philosophy in anthropology.