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2016
Medea come Anti-Atena nel contesto della Guerra del Peloponneso
By: SANDRA BUSATTA – The myth, like war, is a continuation of politics by other means. Athenian thinkers, including Euripides, saw Medea as the representative of both Corinthian Dorians and the womb’s power threatening Athena, as the representative of Athenian (asexual) autochtonous ideal. The liminal and chthonic characteristics of Corinthian Medea were used to turn…
Beyond monogamy. HotWife e le nuove vie della famiglia
By: MARCO MENICOCCI – The wife-centered family is one of the emerging phenomena of our generation: a nucleus where, while the husband is unequivocally bound to be sexually faithful to his wife she can instead enjoy her broad-minded sexual freedom, often under suggestion and initiative of her own husband. Husbands often find themselves offering justifications…
New studies on human skeletal remains from the ancient Herdonia (southeast Italy). Evidences of tuberculosis and brucellosis: two diseases connected with farm animals
archeology, brucellosis, farm animals, Herdonia, Italy, osteoarchaeological collection, Physical anthropology, tuberculosisBy: CINZIA SCAGGION, NICOLA CARRARA – In Spring of 2015 the collections of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Padua, have been transferred in a single location – Palazzo Cavalli – after many decades of alternate events. Here it is intended to reach a rapid conclusion of the cataloguing, studying and valorisation of the entire…
Interaction and communication abilities in a multicultural crew simulating living and working habits at Mars Desert Research Station
By: CAROLE TAFFORIN, FRANCISCO GINER ABATI – Future interplanetary crewmembers will be micro-societies like autonomous and auto-organized systems far from the Earth. They will have to live and work together in small habitat units as it is simulated at Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) in Utah, USA. Missions become longer and the multi-national heterogeneity of…
Anthropometric and Body Composition Differences among Rural and Urban Ao Naga Tribes: Correlation between Hypertension, Haemoglobin and Obesity
By: TEMSUTOLA MAKEN, L. ROBERT VARTE – Urbanization, shifts in diet, and activity patterns can increase obesity and its associated diseases. Rural Ao Nagas increasing urban migration resulted in changes in body composition variables leading to higher WSR, overweight and obesity as well as anthropometric variables like age, %BF, BFMI, WSR and WHR impacting on…
Parents’ Attitude toward Girls’ Education at Primary Level: A Case Study of Bogra District in Bangladesh
By: DALI RANI SUTRADHAR, ELIAS HOSSAIN – Girls’ education is an imperative factor for enhancing their socio-economic status in a society. It has been recognized as a necessary prerequisite to a sustainable social development. Using descriptive research methodology, this research is aimed at exploring the influence of parents’ attitudes toward girls’ education in rural Bangladesh.…
Digital Ubiquity in the Anthropocene: the non-anthropocentric anthropology of Massimo Canevacci
By: RENATA LEMOS MORAIS, MASSIMO CANEVACCI – Massimo Canevacci’s work goes beyond multi and interdisciplinarity. The transversal connections he makes across a multiplicity of epistemologies are truly transdisciplinary, both epistemologically and methodologically. His trajectory of scholarly inquiry, according to his own definition, is undisciplined. It respects no disciplinary boundaries and creates an open field of…
The Globalization Of Fear: what is terrorism?
By: MAXIMILIANO E. KORSTANJE – Though terrorism is not a new issue new radical changes have been brought post 9/11. At some extent, this event caused parallel effects that lasted up to date. In this respect, terrorism and the process of victimization it generates, leads towards the adoption to policies otherwise would be neglected. At…
Rastafari in the Promised Land. An Investigation among Israeli Rastafari
By: HILDE CAPPARELLA – Alongside the recent sociological theories related to multiculturalism, recent years have been marked by the development of anthropological theories on critical multiculturalism, in particular regarding the importance of ‘de-essentialising’ cultures, in order to avoid cultural essentialism. This article contributes to a de-essentialisation of the Rastafari movement, by studying its local manifestation…
Ebola e magia. Rappresentazioni sociali della febbre emorragica in Africa
By: STEFANO GALEAZZI – While the disease forces to rethink both the individual and the community, it also involves identity theories and practices to contrast it. Yet, some diseases such as the outbreaks of Ebola in Africa can destroy everyday social codes and prevent treatment. This article highlights the relations between Ebola and magic /…
Les représentations plurielles du corps sidéen
By: JACQUES J. ROZENBERG – This article tries to clarify the complex relationships between the biological reality of the HIV-positive bodies and the ensemble of social representations it causes and which, in turn, stigmatized it in a in a bundle of stigmas and discrimination justified as preventive. This way the HIV-positive body is inscribed within…
Qualche osservazione su Rievocazione, Living History e Archeopark in Italia
By: SANDRA BUSATTA – This article elaborates and develops two speeches I made at the Forum of the General States of the Historical Re-enactment held in Florence on 9-10 April 2016 and will be included in the White Paper as a result of the Forum. The first part is also a preview of the long…
Tra immaginario e prodotto tipico: nuove relazioni tra cibo, tradizione e comunità locali
communities identity, Food anthropology, local farmer’s marker, local food, neotraditionalism, traditionBy: LUCIA GALASSO – Especially during the last decades of the twentieth century, a profound change in the cultural category of “folk tradition” affected particularly the rural world. Only some categories related to culinary folk heritage survived industrialization, supported by a progressive attempt to recover the traditional knowledge related to the farmers’ folk calendar and…
The Marginal Muslim Minority of Bengal, India: An Anthropological Analysis
By: INTEKHAB HOSSAIN – West Bengal is a multi-ethnic, multi-lingual and multi-religious state of India where various ethnic groups and creeds have been living side by side since long past. Muslims are the principal minority of this multi-religious state and constitute about 27% of the state’s total population. Yet little is known about the socio-economic…
A Study of the Primary Health Care Facilities in the Rural West Bengal
India, National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), Primary health care, Primary Health Centre (PHC), Public Health, Sub-Centre (SC)By: SUMAN HAZRA, ARNAB DAS – The present article seeks to understand the recent scenario of primary health care facilities, personnel and delivery of related services in the context of primary health care in rural West Bengal. A qualitative research design has been chosen and one Primary Health Centre and four Sub-Centres of the Paschim…
Sacred Complexes as Centers of National Integration: A Case Study of the Kaveri Basin Area of Karnatka
By: MAHADEVA SIDDAIAH – Though there were a few anthropological studies on sacred complexes in India after the pioneering study of Gaya by L. P. Vidyarthi there was no such study on any sacred river complex. The studies so for conducted focused only on the interactions between pilgrims and religious specialists. The present study was…
Genetic Variation of Blood Group Polymorphism among the Kshatriya, an Endogamous Human Population from Andhra Pradesh, India
By: DEVA S.R.S. PRAKASH, K. DEEDI, GODI SUDHAKAR – Genetic polymorphic markers such as blood groups are widely used genetic markers in human population genetic studies. This study reports the genetic variation in phenotype and allele frequencies of ABO and Rh (D) blood groups among the Kshatriyas, an endogamous population from Visakhapatnam district, Andhra Pradesh,…
Il materiale scheletrico umano proveniente dal cimitero di San Marcello, rinvenuto in occasione dello scavo del chiostro di San Francesco a Iglesias (CA) Italy
By: ELENA USAI, ROSALBA FLORIS, DONATELLA SALVI – The human skeletal material described in this paper comes from the archaeological excavation carried out by the Geopark Society and the Archaeological Superintendence of Cagliari and Oristano under the direction Dr. D. Salvi , at the Church of St. Francis of Iglesias, in the area called S.…
