2016
Volume 12, Number 2
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.…
