2009
Volume 5, Number 1
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…