2017
Volume 13, Number 1
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…
