Michela Zucca, anthropologist, has done her field work in South America, among Amazonas shamans, in Peru and Colombia. She is specialised in popular culture, gender studies, analysis of imaginary. From 1993 she is working on sustainable development in rural marginal areas, most of all Alpine and mountains regions, training, cultural identity and evaluation of territory. She is consultant in the field of training, EU projects, sustainable development for administrations, municipalities, regions, public and private bodies, training centres. She founded the International Network of Mountain Women. At the Centre of Alpine Ecology in Trento (Italy), she introduced study and practice of Human Ecology and Identity Economy. She directed the European projects Recite II – Learning Sustainability, Interreg III C South “Network of Sustainable Villages” . The projects involved Trentino (Italy), Lapland (Finland), Alentejo (Portugal), Arad (Romania), and Lomza (Poland). She directed the master course in regional development for the Italian Minister of Environment. She taught Didactic of History and History of Territory at the High Pedagogic School in Locarno (CH). She taught History at Turin University, and Quality Evaluation in Territories at University of Aosta Valley. Now she is working on research project about mountain school with Italian Ministry of Public Education. She keeps seminars in Anthropology at the Italian Swiss University, at courses for social operators.