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Zootherapy: Traditional Knowledge of Animal-Based Remedies among the Tangsa Tribe of Arunachal Pradesh, India
By: WANGLIT MONGCHAN, AMOS RONRANG – The Tangsas are rich in their traditional knowledge-based medicinal practices. They employ various traditional healing mechanisms like spiritual healing, herbal healing and zootherapeutic healing to deal with numerous health-related problems. This paper investigates the traditional knowledge of animal-based remedies among the Tangsa community of Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh,…
Essere Cacciatori. Analisi del significato della pratica venatoria e della relazione ambientale tra i cacciatori del Piemonte meridionale
By: MICHELE FILIPPO FONTEFRANCESCO, ELISA CORDARA – This article explores contemporary hunting in Italy and the meanings associated with this practice among hunters in southern Piedmont. Based on case-study research, the article analyzes the value system of the hunters and highlights competition between different ways of understanding the hunting practice. The hunter is understood at…
Crow e cani. Ipotesi sul ruolo del cane nei codici animali Crow
By: MARCO MENICOCCI – I cani assumono diversi valori all’interno del cosmo Crow. Essi, in età precoloniale presenti in gran numero negli accampamenti, erano di ausilio negli spostamenti e assumevano in questa funzione il compito di simbolizzare il “centro”, il punto di riferimento. Per questa loro funzione di marcare la dimensione domestica e usuale, quando…
Good To Think: Animals and Power
By: SANDRA BUSATTA – In Totemism (1962a) and The Savage Mind (1962b) Lévi-Strauss claimed that there was no intrinsic connection between kinship-linked naming systems and food taboos, but it was rather an illustration of a special way of thinking, what he called the “savage” science of concrete ([1962b] 1964b:29). Animal species, with their many observable…