2008
Volume 4, Number 2
Religion: Fact or fancy?
By: SANDRA BUSATTA – Are questions of truth essential to the integrity of a study of other cultures or irrelevant? While I am tempted to state that questions of truth are essential to the integrity of a study, I must consider that probably my idea of truth is different from the one of people ready…
Rio di Pusteria e il suo vaso di Pandora. L’ossario della cappella San Floriano: banca dati paleopatologica on-line
By: ANNALISA CONZATO, JASMINE RIZZI – The analytical study of a large amount of osteological material makes it possible to offer an innovative and systematic contribution to existing palaeopathology literature. We are presenting a dynamic database; a tool available to everyone, practical and with easy access to research material. Pathological human bones are all documented…
L’ecologia umana tra sistemi naturali e sistemi sociali: dalla suscettibilità alla vulnerabilità
By: CLAUDIO RICCIARDI – I rischi ambientali che la salute umana si trova oggi ad affrontare si manifestano sempre più in una indistinguibile separazione dai sistemi sociali. Una visione scientista e riduttiva che relegava l’umano ad un esclusivo materiale organico ha sempre sottratto ad esso ogni significato sociale, culturale e politico. Il passaggio da una…
Gender differences in Italian immigrants’ online interactions
By: FRANCESCA ROMANA SEGANTI – This paper analyses the impact of gender differences on online interaction dynamics. I will expose the related findings from a qualitative study about the social and cultural role of Italianialondra.com, an online community created 2003 to encourage communication among first generation Italian immigrants in London. From the analysis of the…
Antropologia e diritti umani: a Palermo si discute dei modi possibili di una concreta integrazione
By: ELEONORA BOMMARITO – Antropologia, Diritti Umani e Multiculturalismo. Tre sostantivi che facilmente vengono associati, perché ricondotti alla matrice comune che li lega, l’Uomo e spesso utilizzati insieme per sottolineare la vocazione globalizzante della nostra società, necessari, soprattutto nel 2008, dichiarato anno europeo del dialogo interculturale.
Claude Lévi-Strauss: uno sguardo da vicino 3 Colloquio con Marco Menicocci
By: LUCIA GALASSO – Antrocom intervista Marco Menicocci su una delle figure più importanti dell’antropologia moderna. Continua il colloquio con alcuni antropologi italiani per iniziare a trarre un bilancio sullo strutturalismo e, in generale, sull’opera di Claude Lévi-Strauss, in occasione dei 100 anni del grande studioso. Enrico Comba è docente di antropologia culturale all’Università degli…
Les nourritures de marche; du berger au randonneur (exemples corses)
By: PHILIPPE PESTEIL – Si de nombreux travaux ont été consacré à l’étude de la société agro-pastorale corse, rares sont ceux qui ont pris en compte les conséquences des incessantes déambulations qu’imposaient les rythmes des activités effectuées au dehors. Le cadre souvent trop étroit de la monographie définissait des périmètres prenant insuffisamment en compte les…
L’anthropologie existentiale: présence, coprésence et leurs détails
By: ALBERT PIETTE – L’article constitue un projet théorique qui a pour but de déplacer le regard et l’analyse des sciences sociales de ses trois axes fondamentaux: la collectivité, l’action et la relation, et de se focaliser sur les êtres, les existences et les présences. L’article montre également l’importance des détails, les “restes” dans les…
Performing the Eradication of Infibulation. Mana Abdurahman Isse at Merka, Somalia
By: SANDRA BUSATTA – The experiments with the Sunna Gudnin Project, as well as later forms of attenuation of female circumcision, such as the Gudnin Usub (New Rite) promoted by Mana Sultan Abdurahman and her collaborators, have met a good success in Ayuub and other villages in the area of Merka. The DVD shows that,…
Literary anthroponymy: decοding the characters of Homer’s Odyssey
By: MARCY GEORGE KOKKINAKI – Over the generations, people never cease to be fascinated by the epic journeys of Odysseus. Scholars seem to be divided by the vivid descriptions of Odyssey’s exotic unknown lands, extreme nature’s forces, encounters with gods, semi-gods, unusual people and mythic monsters. The present paper examines the ancient texts and demonstrates…
Hospitality: The conquest of Paradise
By: MAXIMILIANO E. KORSTANJE – The term hospitality is associated with the industry of tourism. In fact, it is very well considered as a form of relationship between hosts and guest in that modern activity. Nevertheless, its historical root remains occulted in the bottom of darkness. Under that circumstance, ancient history contributes with hard evidence…
Relazione di commento al testo di Ernesto de Martino: “Angoscia territoriale e riscatto culturale nel mito achilpa delle origini. Contributo allo studio della mitologia degli Aranda”
By: FLAVIANA FRASCOGNA – L’articolo di commento al testo di Ernesto de Martino “Angoscia territoriale e riscatto culturale nel mito achilpa delle origini. Contributo allo studio della mitologia degli Aranda” è stato redatto a seguito del Seminario “Il significato umano degli accadimenti”, tenuto dalla Prof.essa Amalia Signorelli, il cui filo conduttore è la presentazione dei…
Recensione di: Zygmunt Bauman. 2008. LIQUID FEARS: contemporary society and its liquid fears: Paidos Editorial (Buenos Aires) ISBN: 978-950-125400-6
By: MAXIMILIANO E. KORSTANJE – Fears and phobias would be deemed as human reactions that protect us by signaling danger. However, after the attacks on September 11th in the United States, they have been transformed in panic and multiplied in the heart of industrialized societies. This review focuses on the influence of such fear over…
Battling to be ‘European’: myth and the finnish race debate
By: EDWARD DUTTON – This article will examine the debate over the racial origins of the Finns in a new way by looking at the dominant perspective in terms of myth. Focussing on Kemiläinen’s (1998, 2000) discussion, as one of the most salient, the article will dissect the structure of her racial myth and look…
L’antropologia come scelta: 100 anni dalla nascita di Ernesto de Martino
By: MARCO MENICOCCI – Il 1 dicembre 1908 nasceva a Napoli Ernesto de Martino: etnologo originalissimo, storico delle religioni innovativo e filosofo sin troppo trascurato dalla filosofia accademica.