2010
Volume 6, Number 1
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…