Law degree at the University of Messina; perfected his studies in Anthropology at the School of Specialization in Ethnoanthropological Disciplines from the University of Rome "La Sapienza". From 1970 to 1971, he successfully attended a postgraduate specialization course on "Social problems of development" at the University of Naples – Olivetti Foundation in 1970-71. His researches in Social Anthropology, includes ethnographic and socio-anthropological research on social conflict and conflict resolution, processes of social change and reactions to development projects, shamanism and symbolic interpretations of nature, on several indigenous societies from Latin America.