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2010
Editoriale: Antropologia e premi
By: REDAZIONE – Lo scorso novembre si è concluso, con la scelta della vincitrice, il primo “Premio di Laurea Antrocom”, organizzato al fine di promuovere le discipline attinenti l’antropologia in senso lato dalla medesima Onlus che pubblica questa stessa rivista.
Editorial : Anthropology and prizes
By: REDAZIONE – Last November, the first “Antrocom Degree Award”, organized for the purpose of promoting disciplines pertaining to anthropology in the broadest sense by the same non-profit organization that publishes this very journal, concluded with the selection of the winner.
“They are poor and violent”: stereotype and the Ibadan urban motor park space
By: ADEYEMI JOHNSON ADEMOWO – In this work, we are interested in finding out how, and why, the interplay of poverty and violence, the park stereotypes, has problematised the motor park space, and consequently the culture that evolved from the space. Of great concern to us are the origin and the operation of the park;…
A Longitudinal growth study of weight among Lodha and Non-Lodha infants and young children of Lodhasuli, West Bengal, India
By: NIRMALYA KUMAR SINHA, SUBAL DAS, KAUSHIK BOSE, DILIP KUMAR NANDI – This is the first community based longitudinal study among the Lodha tribals and nonLodha children of Lodhasuli, West Bengal, India. The objective of the present longitudinal growth study was to compare the growth in weight of Lodha (tribal) children with the non Lodha…
Il Museo Nazionale di Praga e la costruzione dell’identità ceca
By: SANDRA BUSATTA – Il Museo Nazionale di Praga è importante e interessante non solo per quel che contiene, ma per come è giunto a esistere e a ottenere e a conservare gli oggetti esposti nelle sue vetrine o conservati nei depositi, siano essi esemplari di trilobiti, oranghi impagliati, scheletri di balena, meteoriti, argenti medievali,…
Profiling Modern Risks. An Appraisal of the Works of Bauman, Beck, Castel, Giddens and Baudrillard
By: MAXIMILIANO E. KORSTANJE – Undoubtedly, the fear can be seen a grounding emotion broadly studied by psychology, sociology and anthropology for many years. Every end of millennium represents for human beings a new embodiment of their beliefs, their production, forms of consumption and even their hierarchical lines of authority. As privileged witnesses of the…
Socio-Psychological Status of Female Heads of Households in Rajshahi City, Bangladesh
By: ZOHRA HABIB TANZIMA – This study describes and examines the resource position and socio-psychological status of female heads of household in Rajshahi city of Bangladesh. For this, 120 households led by females were selected by convenience sampling from Rajshahi city, Bangladesh. The women heads were individually interviewed with semi-structured questionnaire method, focusing on access…
Crow e cani. Ipotesi sul ruolo del cane nei codici animali Crow
By: MARCO MENICOCCI – I cani assumono diversi valori all’interno del cosmo Crow. Essi, in età precoloniale presenti in gran numero negli accampamenti, erano di ausilio negli spostamenti e assumevano in questa funzione il compito di simbolizzare il “centro”, il punto di riferimento. Per questa loro funzione di marcare la dimensione domestica e usuale, quando…
Nascere da Medusa. Studio sul parto di Gorgo e sulle caratteristiche dei suoi figli
By: IGOR BAGLIONI – Così Esiodo narra la nascita di Pegasos e Chrysaor, progenie di Poseidon e Medusa. Al riguardo, la tradizione antica, nella maggioranza delle fonti a nostra disposizione, tende a sottolineare come la loro nascita fosse avvenuta dal capo troncato di Gorgo, dal suo collo, in un parto che poteva essere paragonato alla…
Jagua Nakam: a Look into its Properties, and its Revelations on Garo Lifeways
By: QUEENBALA MARAK – A single item of food at times tells many things about a society. The present paper aims to look at the importance and properties of jagua nakam, an item that is hugely sought-after among Garos, a tribe from north-eastern India and northern Bangladesh. Its importance lies in its gastronomic appreciation and…
Rituals in Albania. An anthropological review
By: GENTIAN VYSHKA, BARDHYL ÇIPI – The structure of death rituals differs consistently among regions of Albania. The death ritual contains very strong patriarchal features in the Northern part of the country; in southern regions (next to the seashore) and in Albanian communities living elsewhere in the Mediterranean basin, the features are more animistic; the…
Rajbansi Festivals. Decoding Indigenous Knowledge System
By: ASHOK DAS GUPTA – Indigenous Knowledge System/ IKS and the set of local-level material apparatus are dependent upon non-adaptive domains of the folk life (>folk culture>material apparatus). Altogether non-reflective intangible part of culture (cultural values, social norms, folkways, taboo and traditional belief); reflective and tangible part (set of material apparatus) and reflective but non-tangible…
Cultural and socio-economic factors in health, health services and prevention for indigenous people
Discrimination, health, health facility environment, Health priorities, human geography, indigenous health, inequality, minority groups, needs assessment, social conditions, Socioeconomic factorsBy: RAKIBUL ISLAM, MASHHOOD AHMED SHEIKH – Indigenous people across the world experience more health related problems as compared to the population at large. So, this review article is broadly an attempt to highlight the important factors for indigenous peoples’ health problems, and to recommend some suggestions to improve their health status. Standard database for…
Attacco al Re. Berlusconi, il Papa e il Savoia canterino
By: SANDRA BUSATTA – Molti pensano all’antropologo come a uno che studia civiltà semidimenticate e piccole comunità di ‘primitivi’, pittoreschi da vedere nei documentari, ma che non hanno nulla a che fare con la nostra vita quotidiana. L’antropologia contemporanea, invece, si interessa a tutti gli aspetti della vita umana e ai nostri rapporti quotidiani, cioè…
Cross-Cultural Family Structure between Muslim and Santal Communities in Rural Bangladesh: A Review
By: EMAJ UDDIN – Family structure is a fundamental part of social structure on which human beings immemorially adapt from one generation to another to environment. In recent years cross-cultural studies around the world are increasing to seek universal knowledge on family structure. Based on relevant literatures review this study focuses on differences in family…
Food Security and Sustainability of Agriculture in India: A Human Right Appraisal
By: ALOK CHANTIA, PREETI MISRA – It is very hard to imagine that a living creature can live without food. It may vary at the level of amount which it consumes but food is necessary for survival even every food plant get its food supplement from the earth. So it is a chain, which is…
Palmar C- Line Variation Among Yerukula, a Nomadic Tribe of South India
By: DEVA S.R.S. PRAKASH, GODI SUDHAKAR – The present paper reports the variation in the terminations of palmar C- line among the Yerukula, an Andhra tribal population. It is based on the bilateral palmar prints of 130 men and 130 women. The C-line terminates frequently on ulnar side followed radial side, except right hands of…
Il principale ingrediente nella cucina del sacrificio greco… in Francia. Presenza e importanza del “Saggio sul misticismo greco” di Dario Sabbatucci negli studi di Marcel Detienne e Jean Pierre Vernant
By: ALESSANDRO TESTA – Starting with a presentation about the conclusions of the important and innovative book Saggio sul misticismo greco (1965) by D. Sabbatucci, this article attempts to review the state which was that of the studies on Greek mysticism – and similar matters such as orphism and dionysism – in France between the…
Tra comunità e l’altro: appunti di antropologia culturale
By: MICHELE FILIPPO FONTEFRANCESCO – L’interrogativo circa il ruolo svolto oggi della ricerca antropologica rispetto le culture studiate si lega all’evoluzione epistemologica del concetto di Altro in Antropologia culturale. Ripercorrendo l’evoluzione di tale categoria, l’autore vuole proporre una soluzione a tale interrogativo sul piano teoretico e pratico capace di contrapporsi al pessimismo antropologico delle più…
Genetic identity in Mauritius
By: SYLVIE MAURER – Mauritius is a small island of 1,865 square kilometres. This is equivalent to a third of the surface of Savoy. It is situated in the Indian Ocean at 20° south of the equator, on the east of Madagascar. Mauritius is a land without any evidence of human habitation until the seventeenth…
Youth Problems, Their Development and Empowerment in Bangladesh
By: ANWAR HOSSAIN – Youth in a country is the most viable and potential human resource not only in population structure but also in social structure. Without proper and integrated bio-social development of the youth a nation cannot achieve her human goals intended. Based on literatures reviewed this paper describes youth’s problems in their proper…
Psycho-Social Aspects of AIDS as a Chronic Illness: Social Worker Role Perspective
By: TANZIMA ZOHRA HABIB, SIDDIQUR RAHMAN – Illness is an inevitable fact of human life. Man does not live in a vacuum. Therefore, like all other events of his life, illness is influenced by socio-cultural as well as biological factors. Illness refers to biological, psychological or social conditions that are often understandable in a social…
Evoluzione e Paleoneurologia
By: EMILIANO BRUNER – L’aumento del record fossile e delle informazioni di dettaglio sul processo evoluzionistico (da quelle molecolari a quelle anatomiche e morfologiche) è stato piuttosto limitato, se proporzionato all’enorme sforzo logistico e economico del progresso scientifico moderno. Al contrario, ciò che sembra presentare incrementi sostanziali e a volte salti discreti in questo cammino…
Ideology and Prejudices. Exploring the roots of religion
By: MAXIMILIANO E. KORSTANJE – The role of religion in our secularized world has been studied by countless scholars. However its nature still remains underexplored. The present essay is aimed at debating the pervasive relationship between religion, power and social prejudices. Our thesis is that the inception of sovereignty and territory emerge from the need…