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Vinigi Lorenzo Grottanelli (13 august 1912 – 13 may 1993) was an italian ethnologist and teacher He spent his youth in Torino, where he graduated in Economic science in 1933 and Law in 1935. In 1936 Grottanelli moved to Rome where he began his academic career as an assistant to the chair of Political economy, focusing on the economy of primitive communities. In 1936 he took part to the italian anthropological expedition at Lake Tana in Ethiopia, organized by Centro studi per l'Africa orientale italiana of the Royal Academy of Italy.

The first ethnological essays date between 1936 and 1939 and in 1939, during a new expedition in Ethiopia, he has collected the materials for what is considered the first italian monograph on this kind of studies, titled Missione etnografica nel Uollega occidentale. I Mao.