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2017
La cerimonia Okipa tra gli Indiani Mandan
By: MARCO MENICOCCI – The Okipa ceremony of the Mandan Indians has numerous characteristics that differentiate it from the general model of the Sun Dance. This paper analyzes its founding myths and rituals and shows how the theme of the relationship with the buffaloes constitutes the nucleus at the base of various symbolic economic, anthropological,…
Viaggio tra la Dea e lo sciamano. Note a margine di La strada dai molti canti. Filosofia e sciamanesimo greco di Roberto Baldini
Eliade, femminismo, Filosofia Perenne, Grande Dea, Grande Madre, matriarcato, Movimento della Dea, nativi americani, neosciamanesimo, New Age, Parmenide, sciamanesimo greco, sciamanesimo siberianoBy: SANDRA BUSATTA – This article was supposed to be a simple review of the book by Baldini, but after reading it, it developed into something different and more extensive, I would say an ‘extended’ review. When I bought it, I thought I would read a book that combined philosophy and anthropology, but after a…
Aspects of the Self-Referent Thought in Italian Speleologists
By: FRANCO VIVIANI, TOMMASO DE VIVO – Some aspects of the Self-Referent Thought such as Body Image (BI) and Body Satisfaction (BS) are not well known in subjects widely using their bodies for working or leisure purposes. It is hypothesized that they are lesser biased that those commonly found in literature. In order to gain…
Gli scalottati di Vicenza. Analisi antropologica dei resti rinvenuti a Palazzo San Michele
By: ALBERTO ZANATTA, FABIO ZAMPIERI – In 2016, during the restoration of San Michele Palace in Vicenza, several human bones were found in two types of different burials: the first is a mass grave with more than 1100 bone elements arranged chaotically, while the second burial concerns an isolated hole with inside skulls with clear…
Sacred groves as rich pockets of biodiversity in the Kodagu district
By: S. MAHADEVA – Sacred groves, known as Devarakadu ( which literally means God’s forest) in Kodava language, are rich forest pockets in the Kodagu district. It is a legacy of the people of Kodagu who understood the importance of the forest and bio diversity. The Kodavas usually install the stone idols of Bhadrakali and…
A Comparative Study of Nutritional Status among the Eastern Indian Type 2 Diabetes and Diabetic Nephropathy Patient Population of West Bengal
By: PULAKES PURKAIT – To examine the association between nutritional status and type 2 diabetes disease phenotype in Eastern Indian patients’ population of West Bengal. Methods: Present study cover 718 participants, out of which 168 type 2 diabetic nephropathy patients on hemodialysis (T2DNH), 246 type 2 diabetes patients without nephropathy (T2DM) and compare with 304…
Lakoraj. A study on ethno-botany of the Esfedan in the east of Iran
By: SOMAYYEH SAMEHSALARI, KOOHYAR MOHSENPOUR, ZAHRA SOLTANI LARKANI, MOHAMMADHADI MANSORI – The ethnobotany of the medicinal plants of Esfedan in the South Khorasan province is significant to understand the cultures and traditions of the Esfedan people. We documented 19 medicinal plant species belonging to 12 families and also focused on the specification of the application,…
Socioeconomic and Demographic Factors associated Women’s Labor Force Participation in Rural Bangladesh
By: DALI RANI SUTRADHAR, RIPON KUMAR SARKAR, ELIAS HOSSAIN – This paper assesses the socioeconomic and demographic factors influencing married women’s participation in labor market. Using the logistic regression this study found that women’s age, head of the household, women’s education, poverty status, small family size, husband’s unemployment, and rural locality have a significant positive…
When Concepts Trump Percepts: How Our Visions On The Body Are Changing In The Transition From The Analogic/Televised To The Digital/Reticular Era
By: FRANCO VIVIANI – The author considers different clues permitting to understand what could happen to our visions on the body in this transitional era. We are in fact passing from an analogic/televised era, in which biopolitics dominated the scenario and the bodies were under control, to the digital/reticular era, in which the control, according…
Il fagiolo del mescal fra i Nativi nordamericani
By: GIORGIO SAMORINI – “The mescalbean among the North American Natives” – With the name “mescalbean cult” or “mescalism”, a group of ritual practices of the North American Planes Natives are named, during which a vegetal psychoactive source was employed. The human relationship with this visionary source originates starting from the most remote antiquity, and…
Reincarnazione senza immortalità. Morte e sorte oltremondana tra i Mandan
By: MARCO MENICOCCI – The first Christian missionaries who went to North America claimed that the Indians believed in reincarnation and that it was the core of their religions. A survey among the Mandan shows that their limited notions about the after-life and reincarnation do not present any eschatological significance. These notions have the only…
Il mat ovvero il turpiloquio russo tra cultura e censura
By: ENRICO TIBO – My purpose in this article is to frame the mat, the Russian foul language, within a more general linguistic background, and discard those beliefs that describe it as a linguistic system far from the standard Russian language. I make some observations on the foul language in general, on its definitions from…
Homo communicans (I parte) Ricostruzione tecnologica del motivo a fasci tratteggiati sulla lamina calcarea Spe 04 14 0 ‘P’ di Grotta S. Pellegrino (Laterza – Taranto)
By: VINCENZO STASOLLA, ENRICA FALCO – The aim of this research is to reconstruct the gestures involved in the production of the engravings on a fragment of limestone layer covered with red ocher, attributable to the final stages of the Upper Paleolithic. A number of discriminating elements could be listed by means of observations from…
The «ΚΥΚΝΟΙ» of Delos: Alteration of the Identity of Delos
By: XARIS M. KOUTELAKIS – During the last twenty years I have tried through a series of articles and books of mine (mentioned in the bibliography below) to draw scientific attention to the significance of the name Cycnades / Kyknades, as opposed to Cyclades, when referring to the islands under the same name, in whose…
Struggles of Female Household Heads in Bangladesh: A Qualitative Study
By: TANZIMA ZOHRA HABIB – This paper explores the struggles faced by the female heads of households in Bangladesh. Data included the life stories of 22 purposively selected female household heads from two communities in northwest Bangladesh. Qualitative thematic analysis of the data revealed that the struggles of female heads differed in terms of their…
