2015
Volume 11, Number 2
Medea come dea del vino a Corinto
By: SANDRA BUSATTA – Medea is generally known as a murderous witch due to hostile Athenian propaganda, butmyth, iconography and linguistics allow us to suggest a new Medea, not only an agriculturalgoddess, but also a goddess of fermentation and wine, connected with Dionysus as well as Greektraditions about the diffusion of viticulture. This Medea, however,…
Funzionalità e habitus nell’uso e nel passaggio dall’atlatl all’arco nel Nord America precolombiano
By: FLAVIA BUSATTA – The transition from the atlatl to the bow and arrow in North America has not been so “sudden” as once proposed by Utilitarian Determinism. The two weapons coexisted for a long time as carriers of different social needs or “habitus”, as in Bourdieu. These results are consistent with archaeological finds, a…
Aspetti antropologici e socioculturali dell’emigrazione schedata. Il caso dei trevigiani in Argentina durante il fascismo
By: MARCO DONADON, ALBERTO ZANATTA – The so-called recorded emigrants were a new figure of migrant appeared during the Fascist period. They represented the clearest example of the mixture between political ideals and primary economic needs. This case study is about the recorded migration from Treviso to Argentina during the interwar period. Our aim is…
Un rituale sincretico e polisemico: la lila degli Gnawa marocchini
culti afromaghrebini, Gnawa, Islam, Morocco, possessione, sincretismi religiosi, spirit possession, tranceBy: ALESSANDRA TURCHETTI – This paper analyzes a complex ritual called lila (“night”) performed by the Gnawa, descendants of West African slaves brought to Morocco through the Trans-Saharan trade. The lila is an example of religious and cultural syncretism between Sufi Islam and African rituals of possession trance. The all-night ceremony begins with an animal sacrifice (dbiha), followed by…
Il matrimonio lucano e il suo universo culturale: lo specchio di una società che cambia (seconda parte)
By: MICHELA FORGIONE – This is the second part of the survey, commissioned by the province of Potenza (Basilicata) for the “Basilicata Factory” Project, analizes the exchange of knowledge between generations through the transfer of cultural heritage in the post WW2 war Lucan wedding. The fieldwork produced a documentary account about the various steps of…
Grotta San Pellegrino (Laterza – Taranto). Nuove valutazioni topografiche e toponomastiche
By: VINCENZO STASOLLA – The objective of this work is to rebuild the relationship cave/territory, to identify factors that have contributed to the continued exposure of the resort by man from prehistoric to modern times, through the consultation of written sources, audio recordings, archaeological documentation territorial, topographic reading and surveys. At the moment the archaeological…
Extraneous Markings and the Modification of Potbelly Sculptures in Southeastern Mesoamerica
By: ARNAUD F. LAMBERT – The presence and significance of extraneous markings on potbelly sculptures has rarely been addressed by archaeologists. However, recent studies of monument modification in the Olmec-style art of the Gulf Coast lowlands, the art of Teotihuacán, and Classic period Maya monuments indicate that the study of the various ways stone carvings…