The discussion starts with a mere statement of fact which also denotes the relationship between opera and anthropology: on one hand opera is a quite new and “exotic” topic for anthropologists, on the other anthropology is still perceived as a very strange and unusual approach to opera. The author establishes many reasons and endeavors which suggest that opera and anthropology no longer need to be alien to each other. The article thus introduces the work of anthropologists whose personal and professional affinity for opera has been explicated in their academic and biographical account.
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