2011
Volume 7, Number 1
I re tragici di Israele. La narrazione delle origini della monarchia in Israele come problema storico
By: MARCO MENICOCCI – Lo strumento per la liberazione di Israele dai babilonesi è la monarchia persiana e un altro modello di monarchia si aggiunge a quello noto di derivazione egiziana. Un modello decisivo: in fondo Israele nasce realmente proprio dopo l’intervento persiano e lo stesso Yhwh diviene dio unico proprio a seguito dell’incontro con…
Micro-etnografia notturna. Riflessioni di un antropologo in discoteca
By: ALESSANDRO TESTA – Non sono un frequentatore abituale di discoteche o di clubs, come si preferisce chiamarle oggi. Questi appunti sono l’esito di osservazioni che hanno avuto luogo in alcune discoteche romane molto frequentate e da me precedentemente sconosciute, nell’arco temporale di alcuni fine-settimana di primavera. Essi pongono, credo, problemi metodologici di “scala” e…
Royal Anthropological Institute or Royal Academy? Post-Modern Anthropology as Contemporary Art
By: EDWARD DUTTON – It has been widely argued that postmodern and cultural relativism are replacement religions in Romantic, neo-tribal tradition (e.g. Scruton 2000, Kuznar 1997) This article attempts to better understand the nature of postmodern anthropology by looking at it through the prism of Art. Following Scruton (2000), it argues that, since the Enlightenment,…
“One Culture – Many Perspectives”. Understanding Cultural Diversity Through Rural Livelhioods. A Reflection from the Rural Craft Communities in Kandy, Sri Lanka
By: CHANDIMA DILHANI DASKON – There is no universally accepted definition for the concept of culture. Culture should be understood as a specific and unique phenomenon that affirms community’s identity and diversity. Judging one culture by the values of another, over-simplifies the distinctiveness and the wealth of a particular culture. Recognising, understanding and respecting dynamics…
Does Indigenous Knowledge have anything to deal with Sustainable Development?
By: ASHOK DAS GUPTA – In this paper, the author investigates that whether indigenous knowledge has anything to do with sustainable development. First of all this has been targeted to work out that how could knowledge be treated as a integral part of culture that has very broadly a material and a non-material part. This…
The Rebellion in Heaven. The beginning
By: MAXIMILIANO E. KORSTANJE – From Middle Age onwards, the philosophers and theologians devoted notable endeavors to explain the evilness in the Hebrew-tradition. Whether one figure out God is an entity characterized by love, compression and omnipresence, it remains to be seen why he creates exactly his most staunch enemy, or why one of his…
Secondary Burial of the Chakpa Lois of Phayeng Village, Manipur, India
By: HOABIJAM VOKENDRO SINGH – The Chakpa Lois of Phayeng village despite of a lot of influence from major communities still embrace their traditional death ritual by burning the body and picking up the bones by misubis and kept into a luphu and buried with due ritualistic observation.
Appraisal Of Risk Factors For Diabetes Mellitus Type 2 in Central Indian Population: A Case Control Study
By: LAKSHMI G. RAMA, S.S. BANDYOPADHYAY, L.V.K.S. BHASKAR, MADHUBALA SHARMA, RAGHAVENDRA V. RAO – Diabetes mellitus is characterized by high levels of blood glucose, late onset of disease and associated with serious complications. Genetic and environmental risk factors are known to exist and the importance of elucidating these risk factors in different populations will be…
Natural Selection Intensity in Settibalija. A Mendelian Human Population from South India
By: DEVA S.R.S. PRAKASH, GODI SUDHAKAR – The selection intensity indices were computed based on the demographic information pertaining to fertility and mortality among Settibalija, an endogamous Mendelian population of Andhra Pradesh, South India. The total fertility and mortality indices are slightly lower than other Andhra populations studied earlier. In the present caste population, the…
Obesity, Diabetes and the Thrifty Gene. The Case of the Pima
By: FLAVIA BUSATTA – The great tenacity and perseverance with which the Gila River Pima fight diabetes has uncovered much about the disease. Thank you to Gila River Pima a most significant discovery has made that is genetic discoveries made on samples from Caucasian are not useful for the cure of the disease among the…
Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms of PARKIN Gene in Ten Indian Populations
By: JAYA SANYAL, L.V.K.S. BHASKAR, AVISHEK CHATTERJEE, BISWANATH SARKAR, BIDHAN CHANDRA RAY, VADLAMUDI RAGHAVENDRA RAO – Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most common progressive neurodegenerative brain disorder after Alzheimer’s disease. Due to the complex etiology of PD, there is possibility that single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) in PARKIN gene could be associated with the disease…
Sul rapporto tra Athena e Medusa
By: IGOR BAGLIONI –
Contrastive Study of “Time” in Iranian-Indian Mythology
By: BIBIAGHDAS ASGHARI, M. ANNAPURNA – The main aim in the study is to compare and contrast the textual contents and the formal structures that are involved in the myth of ‘time’ in Indian and Iranian mythologies. Three questions will be replay: What are the divisions of time? What is the function of time in…