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2009
Lévi-Strauss, ovvero l’antropologo nudo. Crudo, cotto o al sangue?
By: SANDRA BUSATTA – Come afferma Eriksen (2001:310), la variazione culturale all’interno della modernità non era sufficiente ad attirare l’attenzione dell’autore di Tristi Tropici (1955), che rappresenta l’unico lavoro sul terreno svolto da Lévi-Strauss, per la tesi di dottorato. Questa esperienza di ricerca, poche settimane su cento anni di vita, quasi sparisce al cospetto di…
Gender of Birth Control Method Practice in Sexual Behavior Patterns in Bangladesh
By: EMAJ UDDIN, ZANNATUL FERDOUS – Although Bangladesh in sexual and social relational sense is culturally conservative and restricted society, several recent studies reveal that diverse sexual behavior patterns and birth control method practices are increasing day by day in both rural and urban areas of this country. Purpose of the study was to examine…
La visione e il cosmo – Processi di costruzione della realtà tra i Crow del Nord America
By: MARCO MENICOCCI – Una delle questioni che turbavano Lowie fosse se Sole, il destinatario delle maggior parte delle preghiere, fosse o meno identificabile con Old Man Coyote, come a volte i Crow riferivano. Sole, che Lowie non esita a chiamare “dio”, sembra all’etnologo austro-americano privo di una propria personalità. Ora possediamo la chiave per…
Non-places and tourism: towards an understanding of travel
By: MAXIMILIANO E. KORSTANJE – The present paper put the non-places theory under scrutiny considering that there is no place in the world that can be termed non-place. This not only defies the principles of anthropology but also borders the boundaries of ethnocentrism. Quite apart from the afore-mentioned limitations we have examined in this paper,…
Transforming Refugees: Biopolitics and medical construction of Southeast Asian Immigrant Subjects
By: NEIL TURNER – Biopolitical medicine was and continues to be a complex apparatus that economizes the functions of sociopolitical importance. The resulting institutional frameworks impact processes of racialization, ethnic politics, transnational relations and “psycho-cultural” identity making subjects the objects of bureaucratic regulation and control. In this context, refugee and immigrant cultural manifestations are subverted…
Ascesa e caduta dell’uomo da Gilgamesh a Death Note. Appunti per uno studio comparato della cultura del limite
By: FABIO BARTOLI – Scopo dell’articolo è di tracciare un excursus volto a dimostrare, in accordo con le teorie di Marvin Harris, come culture diverse nel tempo e nello spazio abbiano elaborato costrutti culturali simili per rispondere a bisogni analoghi. Nello specifico si prendono in esame i miti dell’ascesa e caduta dell’uomo, fondamentali per tracciare…
Somalie: suicide collectif ou appel desesperé a l’aide? Essai de reponse
africa, Afrique, droit maritime, eaux territoriales, failed state, faillite de l’Etat, haute mer, international relations, maritime law, mass suicide, modern piracy, nomadism, nomadisme, piraterie moderne, relations internationales, Somalia, Somalie, suicide collectif, territorial waters, tribalism high sea, tribalismeBy: THIERRY ONGA – What child has not dreamt of being a pirate? The adventures of Captain Jack Sparrow and his crew of the “Black Pearl” trilogy “Pirates of the Caribbean” have a strong base of fans around the world! In this early twenty-first century, pirates are doing well, thanks for asking. They are actually…
Contorsioni dal campo
By: DAVIDE STOCCHERO – Questo documento è un “completamento” antropologico de “Cosmologia Nalu. Una ricostruzione antropologica fra passato e presente” pubblicato sul primo numero di questa rivista. E’, se vogliamo, l’altra faccia della medaglia. Oppure la sua antitesi. In quello, infatti, scrivevo di “aver scelto di privilegiare la semplicità e la linearità della presentazione […]…
Vampires and vampirism: pathological roots of a myth
By: MORENO TIZIANI – Many cultures have developed myths and legends about vampires and hematofages with different features and behaviours. These tales have many commonelements, as the dualism between “life” and “death”. According to some anthropogical currents, these symbols don’t come up from nothing, but follow a process of transformation drawing elements from real experience,…
L’unico ribelle. Il profeta Wraps-up-his-tail e l’identità Crow
By: MARCO MENICOCCI – Il 5 novembre 1887 si concluse tragicamente nella riserva dei Crow nel Montana l’unico episodio di rivolta contro i bianchi che abbia interessato questa tribù. Il giovane Wraps-up-his-tail, che aveva cercato di sollevare gli indiani contro i bianchi, venne colpito alla testa dal revolver di un agente della polizia indiana della…
Re-thinking the contributions of Dean Maccannell. A new theory of leisure class placed under debate
By: MAXIMILIANO E. KORSTANJE – Today, Dean Maccannell has become in one of most important scholars in tourism fields. Not only his contributions have been quoted in whole literature and tourism-related journals, but also had taken as an obligated referenced for all who makes tourism their object of study. Under such a context, Maccannell have…
Correlates of Family Cultural Background and Family Status and Role Between Muslim and Santal Communities in Rural Bangladesh
By: EMAJ UDDIN – Family status and role, fundamental building block of family structure, are influenced and determined by family cultural background factors. The purpose of this study is to examine and compare how family cultural background factors influence family status and role between Muslim and Santal communities in rural Bangladesh. In so doing, the…
Margaret Mead. La costruzione culturale dell’identità di genere
By: SILVIA BELLUCCI – Il lavoro che segue si propone di analizzare il concetto di differenza di genere così come è stato affrontato dall’antropologa statunitense Margaret Mead nel proprio saggio Sesso e temperamento in tre società primitive (1935), ripreso successivamente nelle analisi compiute dall’antropologa Mila Busoni in Genere, sesso, cultura (2000). In particolare, si analizza…
Landscapes and Skyscapes in Contest
By: SANDRA BUSATTA – The creation of cultural landscapes can support different claims to land or territory. Some Apache conflate both conceptualized and constructed landscapes, sacred sites and archaeological ruins with the natural world. Curiously, astronomers share biospherical and biological imagery with their opponents, Apache as well as Anglo and Chicano ones. In the vicious…
Scientology: un nuovo movimento religioso nell’Occidente della secolarizzazione
By: GIACOMO LEPRI – Intento del saggio è la contestualizzazione del movimento religioso di Scientology, soprattutto attraverso l’analisi di ciò che concerne la Dianetica, tecnica di psico-terapia dalla quale il movimento si è sviluppato, elaborata dallo scomparso leader L. Ron Hubbard. Scientology, pur essendo perfettamente inquadrabile nella categoria dei Nuovi Movimenti Religiosi, si differenzia dalla…
An Ethnomedicinal Study Among the Gond of Chhattisgarh: India
By: DINESH MISHRA, ARTI BROKER – An ethno-medicinal survey was carried out among the Gond tribal community residing in the Korba district of Chhattisgarh State, India. Gond is the largest tribal community of India. They are widely distributed all over the India. 40 traditional healers were contacted and in depth interviewed to gather their knowledge…
Life at the Franco-Italian Concordia station in Antarctica for a voyage to Mars: ethological study and anthropological perspectives
adaptation, Antarctica, Concordia station, culture, human behavior, isolated and confined group, microsocietyBy: CAROLE TAFFORIN – For preparing the next interplanetary missions, this study proposes an ethological analysis of the social group building and individual strategies of a multicultural and mixed gender team in isolation and confinement conditions found in a polar mission. A model of adaptation to space environment is stated and implies physiological, psychological and…
Comunicare la Storia Naturale dell’Uomo: ombre e luci
By: ILARIO DE BIASE – This paper endeavors to explain what the issues are in understanding human evolution, mainly focusing on the teaching of Italian scholarship. What languages are more suitable to teach it? What topics should be chosen for it? Can pupils under 12 understand human evolution? All of the answers come out from…
Review of the book “The Myth of Hero”, morphology and semantic of heroic archetype
By: MAXIMILIANO E. KORSTANJE – One of more characteristic features of modernity seems to be the passion that citizens feel for their sports. Even though in different manners, many people are today prone to consider these types of games as a mean of social upward worldwide. For part of the third world, families encourage their…