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Valerio Valeri (7 November 1883 – 22 July 1963) was an Italian Cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for Religious in the Roman Curia from 1953 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1953 by Pope Pius XII.
Professor in Anthropology Valerio Valeri, Professor in Anthropology and an expert on Hawaii and Indonesia, died April 25 in Santa Monica, Calif., after a long battle with cancer. He was 53. A native of Italy, Valeri was admitted, with top ranking nationwide, to the country's premier college, Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, in 1964.
Valerio Valeri (August 4, 1944 – April 24, 1998) was an Italian anthropologist best known for his work in the ethnology of Polynesia and Indonesia. He is well known for his monographs “Kingship and Sacrifice: Ritual and Society in Ancient Hawaii”, and “The Forest of Taboos: Morality, Hunting, and Identity among the Huaulu of the ...
Valerio Valeri (1944–1998) was an Italian anthropologist with profound expertise in the societies and cultures of Polynesia and Southeast Asia. A student of both Claude Lévi-Strauss and Louis Dumont, Valeri would go on to become Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago.
Roncalli’s predecessor, Monsignor Valerio Valeri, had been close to the collaborationist General Philippe Pétain during the German occupation, and de Gaulle made it clear to the Vatican that, since Valeri had become persona non grata to the French people, he would have to be replaced immediately.
The key to Hawaiian society—and a central focus for Valeri—is the complex and encompassing sacrificial ritual that is the responsibility of the king, for it displays in concrete actions all the concepts of pre-Western Hawaiian society.
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This eloquent and profound book, completed by Valerio Valeri shortly before his death in 1998, contends that the ambivalence felt by all humans about sex, death, and eating other animals can be explained by a set of coordinated principles that are expressed in taboos.
