Ugo Fabietti is a professor of Cultural Anthropology at Bocconi University and chair of the PhD programme in Cultural and Social Anthropology of the Human Sciences Department of the University of Milan-Bicocca. He began his fieldwork among the nomadic Bedouins of the An Nafud Desert (in Saudi Arabia) before turning his research to south-western Pakistan. The author of diverse articles and books on nomadism, he has also written about problems inherent to history and the epistemological structure of anthropology. He is editor of the Culture e Società series for Raffaello Cortina Editore. His most recent works include Dal tribale al globale (with R. Malighetti and V. Matera, 2012), Culture in bilico. Antropologia del Medio Oriente (Bruno Mondadori, 2012); L’identità etnica. Storia e critica di un concetto equivoco (Carocci, 2013); and Materia sacra. Corpi, oggetti, immagini e feticci nella pratica religiosa (Raffaello Cortina, 2014).