L’umanesimo comunista di Ernesto de Martino tra storicismo, laicità e terzomondismo

The article is the result of research on the intellectual and political biography of Ernesto de Martino and focuses on the perusal of the communist journals and the analysis of some post-World War II debates where de Martino’s role emerges across the board and far beyond the folklore debate, especially in the battle for the secularisation of culture and in supporting the decolonisation struggles.