2018
Volume 14, Number 2
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…