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2018
From Adoption to Eviction: The Blood Quantum and the Mohawks
adoptions, blood-quantum, Canadian federal laws, demographic control, genetic, identity, Mohawks, reservations, social control, tribal laws, US federal lawsBy: SANDRA BUSATTA – Historically the Mohawks survived as a political-ethnic entity thanks to massive adoptions of people from other tribes, as well as European countries. They counted more ‘galvanized’ Mohawks than full-blooded ones already at the end of the 17th century. While they stopped adopting whole tribes after the Mourning/Beaver Wars, in the 18th…
La parola come azione. Il malocchio in una comunità del sud
By: MARIANO MARCOGIUSEPPE – The body, health and illness are part of a system of representations and symbolic practices in very close contact with the social sphere. For this reason, It is reported a study of the evil-eye figured out as a phenomenon of the body. It is useful to investigate relations and processes of…
Canti e suoni del natale ferlese: a nuvena
By: GIUSEPPE GARRO – The article analyses the christmas tradition of Ferla, a village located in the prov. of Syracuse in South Eastern Sicily. It explores them on the basis of an ethnographic research conducted between 2015 and 2016. In particular, it investigates the tradition and the alterations developed in the course of history. At…
Porn Rock. Le origini della sessualizzazione del rock: da Elvis Presley ai Beatles
By: MARCO MENICOCCI – Pornography promotes a constant sexualization of various aspects of contemporary culture. This sexualisation can take place through direct channels, such as explicit pornography, or through the mediation of other cultural forms, such as cinema, fashion and art. Rock music played a decisive role among these channels. This paper takes into consideration…
Sentimental archaeology
By: FRANCO VIVIANI – A senior anthropologist is trying to put together anthropology and art in a project, called Anthrology, that needs different steps to be concluded. One of them requires returning to the populations surveyed when the researcher was young. In the year 2018 he was able to access the sites he visited forty…
La stregoneria come discorso sulla percezione della modernità: la credenza nei kôn
By: VALENTINA SBOCCHIA – Following Gonzalez Díez’s (2013 and 2014) work on Gabonese witchcraft, this article aims to understand how traditional forms of witchcraft, and specifically the transformation of people into kôn, that is zombie-like slaves laboring for their masters, is based on relationships of kinship and power. Regional variations in Cameroon and South Africa…
Primi dati paleobiologici sugli individui rinvenuti all’interno della Tomba 3 del sito di Cap de Forma (Minorca)
By: VALERIA PUSCEDDU, ROSALBA FLORIS, ANNA DEPALMAS, GIUSEPPINA MARRAS, CARLA BUOSI, MARCO SARIGU – This paper presents new paleobiological data from the skeletal remains founded in the necropolis of Cap de Forma; the site is located on a narrow isthmus that links a 30-m-high coastal promontory in the island of Minorca (Mahon). The archeological complex,…
La riscoperta della Via Flaminia e il viaggio nel mondo antico: l’esperienza della rievocazione storica
By: GIUSEPPE CASCARINO – A brief account of an experience halfway between a historical re-enactment and an experiment to rediscover social relationships in the ancient world: a journey along the ancient Via Flaminia, rebuilt on maps and satellite photos, traveled on foot in 14 days from Rome to Rimini, wearing the historical dress of Roman…
Etnografia delle dature in Africa
africa, alkangaudé, bori, datura, Ethiopia, hausa, jimsonweed, khomba, leba shay, marabout, mozambique, senegal, tsongaBy: GIORGIO SAMORINI – Daturas belong to the tropane Solanaceous group of plants, traditionally used in the Old and New World for their intoxicant properties. In Africa two species – Datura stramonium, and D. metel – are used in religious, initiatory, divinatory, magic-therapeutic rites, and also as tools during trials by ordeal, in courts of…
Stereotypes in Moroccan Arabic proverbs. A Pilot Study
By: MARYEME OUCHEN, YAMINA EL KIRAT EL ALLAME – The present article aims at providing an overview of a pilot study that is carried out on a corpus of stereotypical proverbs in Moroccan Arabic with the aim of investigating the variable(s) (age, gender, literacy level) that has/have the most significant impact on informants’ attitudes (awareness,…
Religions, Trade Networks and their Marketing Infrastructure in Asia
By: RUCHI AGARWAL – A number of researches outlines the relations between religions and trade but few focus on the two-way relationship shared between religions and trade networks and the role of the marketing infrastructure in facilitating this relationship. This article aims to fill this gap by examining the role of trade networks in the…
Emic Categorization of the Stages of Illness: An Anthropological Study of a Peri-Urban Bangladeshi Village
By: NASIR UDDIN, MUSFIKUR RAHMAN – New born and children were affected mostly from communicable illness while the adolescents, adults and old people suffered from non-communicable illness. They were not aware about the stages of illness. By a qualitative research approach the researchers have found that most respondents (58%) believed that their suffering was due…
Ethnic Community Variation in Oversize Families in Bangladesh: 1971-2011
Bangladesh, Ethnic Community, India, Oversize family, Social policyprograms, Social work implicationBy: MAHBUBUR A.H.M. RAHMAN – Ethnic community variations in oversize families affect not only ethnic family and community life but also influence national development and social welfare functions in Bangladesh. Based on optimum population theory the government of Bangladesh has adepte two-child (either male or female) family size policy. To achieve this goal mentioned in…
Pottery Unfold History: A Case Study of the Inhabitants of District Jind, Haryana (India) through the Ages
Black Burnished Ware, Ceramics, Classical Harappans, Hakra Ware, Historical, Incised Ware, Late Harappans, Medieval, Mud Appliqué Ware, PGW, Pre-Harappans, Regional Hakra, Tan Slipped/Chocolate Slipped WareBy: RAJPAL – Pottery is a tangible evidence like any other archaeological find, it throws light on sociocultural, religious, economic aspect of past cultures/civilizations. It is a very important source for the reconstruction of Pre-history when written records are not available and even during historical times its importance does not diminish. With the help of…
Tourism as Pilgrimage?
By: SANDRA BUSATTA – Anthropologists have been debating the relationship between the tourist and the pilgrim for a number of decades, using in a somewhat loose way terms such as vacation, travel and tour. The etymologies of the words used for travel, journey, voyage and tourism, as well as vacation, holiday, feast and fair, and…
Processi di apprendimento culturale nelle cerimonie turche del mevlid: dalla cantante alla madre, dalla madre al figlio
By: MARTINA CRESCENTI – In order to understand the dynamics and contents of the political project to strengthen Islam supported by the Party for Justice and Development (AKP) in contemporary Turkey, I surveyed twenty-five mevlid ceremonies officiated by women, who were the object of a research conducted in Bursa and Gemlik in 2014. These ceremonies…
Gli Uroni e le loro anime. Immortalità, sorte oltremondana e reincarnazione nei documenti del ‘600 sugli Uroni
By: MARCO MENICOCCI – Based on the documents of the first missionaries, the scholars of Huron religion rejected the possibility of applying the Western notion of soul to this people, but accepted the declarations of the missionaries according to whom this people believed in reincarnation. The critical analysis of missionary documents shows that not only…
Persuasion with deceit elicits the “Trojan Horse Effect” in tennis players
By: FRANCO VIVIANI, MATTEO FENZA – When people decide and solve problems without complete information, often use heuristics, leading to cognitive biases. To 90 both sexes tennis players, subdivided into three levels of performance, was requested to test two identical rackets having two similar strings, apart for the brand and the price, presented to half…
I fuochi sacri dei paesi iblei: il caso dell’ampelodesma di Cassaro e di Ferla
By: GIUSEPPE GARRO – The study presented below analyzes the rituals of fire in the small towns of Cassaro and Ferla located in the prov. of Syracuse in South Eastern Sicily. Specifically, the analysis considers the use of the ampelodesma plant used during the procession of Sant’Antonio (Cassaro) and of the Holy Saturday at Ferla.…
Meanings and taboos in traditional gastronomy of Maasai communities in Kajiado County, Kenya
By: MICHELE FILIPPO FONTEFRANCESCO, LEAH LEKANAYIA – The article analyses food traditions among the Maasai of Kajiado County. It explores them on the basis of an ethnographic research conducted between 2017 and 2018. In particular, it investigates the cultural meanings and taboos associated with blood, meat and milk: key elements in the traditional Maasai diet.…
L’éthique et la pragmatique du vivant dans leurs rapports à l’avenir corporel de l’homme
emerging diseases, ethical relativism, experimentation, expérimentation, intégrité, integrity, living ethics, maladies émergentes, postmodernism éthique, postmodernisme, relativisme éthiqueBy: JACQUES J. ROZENBERG – This article analyzes the relationship between the ethics of the living as an in vivo organism, its in vitro biological studies, and the bodily future of the human being. It aims to show the inseparability between the pragmatic procedures implemented in the study of its micro-biochemical structures and its repercussions…
Pain: How does Anthropology look at it? The Suffering of Body and Mind
By: RAVINDER SINGH – This Paper attempts to explore pain, social and physical, their metaphors and its suffering in and beyond body. Further it reviews evidences for neuro-chemical and neural overlap between social and physical pain. Besides it has explored consequences of this overlap and follows sociocultural aspects of pain in the anthropological lens. It…
A comparative study of Nutritional Status among the Eastern Indian Type 2 Diabetes and Diabetic Nephropathy patients 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, the present study covered 718 participants, out of which 168 were type 2 diabetic nephropathy patients on hemodialysis (T2DNH), 246 were type 2 diabetes patients without nephropathy (T2DM) which were…
A study on consciousness of urban girls about their body image and body weight in north Kolkata, West Bengal. Body image and body weight among girls
body image attitude, body image perception, body weight concern, body weight related behaviour, India, urban girlBy: SUBHO ROY, NANDINI GANGULY, SANCHARI ROY – The present study explores the association between body image attitude and perception and age and actual weight status of urban girls aged between 14 and 22 years. The association of body weight concern and related behaviour with age and actual weight status of these girls were also…
Socio-Economic Status of the Bettakuruba Tribal Women: a Case Study from the Chamarajanagara District, Karnataka
By: B.R. MANJUNATHA, M.R. GANGADHAR – The objectives of this paper is to find out the socio-economic status of the Bettakuruba tribal women and to suggest ways and means for their overall development. The Bettakuruba community has a rich and cultural heritage, and strong traditions, but lacks socio-economic empowerment. They are not able to create…
Femininity in Proto-historic South Asian Art: an Analytical Study of Harappans
anklet, breast, Chalcolithic, elongate, female figurines, feminine, Harappa, necklace, posture, seals, string, terracotta, waistBy: RAJESH HOODA, RAJPAL, KUSHAL PARKASH – Women carry divine procreative powers gifted by nature. There is an inherent sophistication in the movements of a woman’s body and the livelihood of these movements has been well represented since proto-historic times. Be it either sculptural art or terracotta art, the artisan or even a novice took…
Women’s Participation in the Development Program and Household Decision Making Status among the Targeting Ultra Poor (TUP) in Rural Bangladesh
By: RIPON KUMAR SARKAR, K.M. RABIUL KARIM – Growing evidence shows that the distribution of individuals’ ownership and control of assets within a household can have important implications for women’s empowerment and children’s well-being. Interventions on specific individuals can shift intra-household dynamics, yet little evidence exists from rigorous evaluation. We studied BRAC’s Targeting the Ultra…