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¿De quién es la falta de ética del mayor o del iniciado?
Get PDFThe objective of this paper is to illustrate the current reality of the Ocha-Ifá Rule in Cuba, which is characterized by the diversity mediated by modernity, which together with other social factors and syncretism identifies a social problem originated, in principle, by the circumstance in which the Spanish white man arrived in Cuba, the way in which he brought the African black and the conditions in which he kept him enslaved; nevertheless, the new reality, black, with skill and wisdom preserves and protects their traditions, their culture. Thus, the expansion of the primary oral transmission of African culture begins in the process of “transculturation”; At present, despite the survival of this religious practice, the modern trend has changed the coexistence between the branches and the actions of practitioners, who with the intention of making their actions prevail, set excessive prices for the established ritual ceremonies. Or they constantly violate duties and rights, thus deforming what is stipulated in the Ocha-Ifá Rule. The above is the result of the «boom» of the Ocha-Ifá Rule «Santería»; event that, sometimes for some implies a fashion and for others the spirituality of the practitioner, which differs from the ethics, respect and confidence of the believer in his practice, therefore the contrast in Cuba between the historical moment is questioned lived by those who preceded us; the silent, discreet scenario in which, for various reasons, they guarded the religion and the current context in which the Ocha-Ifá Rule is practiced
La Oralidad, los ecos en el Tiempo
Get PDFThe oral tradition is deeply rooted in the country, the monumental work of religions coming from Africa were transmitted through orality. Starting from word, people leave their witness that passed down from generation to generation through time, real stories, legends, tales, and myths are transmitted and re-created even by time, receiving relevance in the popular imaginary. The community of Surgidero de Batabanó has been included in this practice. There are several stories about it with central core, other fantastic based on the imagination and the popular belief. The contribution re-creates three stories that have been told in the community since the first years of the last century (XX), that have been heard in the homely silence, during the winter nights when families gather and bring out the same. The stories by Juan Oliven, la Familia Fontanel and Policarpo Sandoval are told in this manner. They originate from stories told from the local black universe, given that their characters are black people, in which they expose their misfortune, beliefs, discriminations and spoliation to which were submitted old slaves and their descendent, practices really common and discriminated in that period. Three stories are described (even though they are not the only ones in the community), we analyze the social-historical context in which they spread, the consequences of the actions described and the contribution that the same bring to the traditional, popular culture and the oral tales as community practice
Art made for pictures
Get PDFOver the last fifteen years, communication has become pictorial in a manner that it never was before. Billions of people have smart phones that enable them to take, edit, and share pictures easily whenever they choose to do so. This has created expressive niches within which new activities, with their own norms, continue to develop. Ready availability of these pictorial modes of communication, we claim, not only constitutes a change in the range of our communicative practices, but also changes the world about which we communicate. Increasingly, we are making a world that’s worth depicting, using the tools we now possess.This paper will unpack one example of this phenomenon, trompe l’oeil street art. More and more of this seems to be produced with the intention that it is seen primarily in pictures. It makes sense that anything someone makes, and wants to be seen, would be made with decent photography potential in mind. You want photos to be able to, as they say, do justice to your work no matter what kind of visual work you make. In these cases, however, the pictures of the work are reliably more interesting than the pieces seen in the flesh
Visually-based Knowingly Illusory Presence and Picture Display
Get PDFThe aim of this paper is twofold. First, I want to show how picture perception is specifically presentational, hence specifically perceptual, by suitably reinterpreting Richard Wollheim’s conception of seeing-in. Picture perception is such for it only ascribes the presence of the picture’s subject in its content, but not in its mode, for the subject is visually known not to be there: thus, it amounts to a knowingly illusory perceptual experience of such a presence. Second, I want to show how this presentational specificity does not prevent the picture itself from being properly presentational of the properties that are ascribed, within its perception, to its subject: the design properties of the picture’s vehicle present the perceivable properties ascribed to the picture’s subject just as the sensory features of a standard perceptual experience present the perceivable properties of its object
Les drames exotiques dans le repertoire du Théâtre national de Varsovie au carrefour du XVIII et XIXème siècle (1790-1814)
Get PDFThe National Theater founded by King Stanisław August in 1765, at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, performed numerous novelties in its repertoire. From the beginning of the 1790s, W. Bogusławski – three times manager, actor and director of the public theater in Warsaw, presents dramas on exotic subjects. Their initial aesthetic-sensational function changes after the last partition of Poland in 1795. In the years 1799-1814, Bogusławski presents dramas that show the struggle of the Inca with Spanish invaders as a metaphor of the then-existing situation of Poles oppressed by Russia, Prussia and Austria
«Können Sie denn dergleichen schreiben, ohne in Wallung zu gerathen? Ich nicht». A Commented Edition of an Unknown Letter of Baumgarten to Meier
Get PDFIn this article, I make available the transcription of a letter of Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten to Georg Friedrich Meier, which has hitherto remained completely unknown to commentators. After contextualizing the writing, I examine in particular the two most significant elements of the text: the King’s order to Meier to deliver a class on Locke and Baumgarten’s observations on the dispute with Gottsched. As for this aspect, I linger on the war declared to aesthetics, both as a term and as a concept, by Gottsched and his followers, so as to consider Baumgarten’s position in a wider theoretical framework
M. Gregori, L. Galletto, G. Malorgio, E. Pomarici, L. Rossetto (a cura di) Il Marketing del Vino. capire · decidere · agire, EdiSES, Napoli, 2017, pp. 353
Get PDFKot nou vire tourne nou tand li. Serial Verb Constructions at the Interface between Grammar and Culture: Case-Study Kreol Seselwa (Seychelles Creole)
Get PDFThis paper investigates the form and function of Verb Chains and Serial Verb Constructions (SVCs) in Kreol Seselwa (Seychelles Creole, KS), a French-based Creole language spoken in the Indian Ocean. Prior to Bickerton’s seminal paper in 1989, it was widely assumed that Serial Verb Constructions were not part of KS grammar. More recent studies (Adone 2012; Syea 2013a, 2013b; Gabel 2018) have shown that these constructions do exist in Indian Ocean Creoles and in KS. Likewise, in this paper, we will demonstrate that from a typological perspective, prototypical as well as non-prototypical SVCs can be found in KS. In our analysis, we provide evidence that an ethnosyntactic framework can account for certain SVCs in KS. We argue that their form and function can be accounted for by cultural logic hence stressing the link between grammar and culture
Afteruse of Landfills. Methodological approach, project requisites and relationship with the surrounding area
Get PDFSanitary landfills still today represent one of the most widely applied methods of waste management. However, the characteristics of this type of plant represent a particular challenge for the environment due to the potential release of pollutants, for the surrounding area as the plant may affect local organization and functions, and for the landscape as both the size and the morphology of a landfill may establish new relationships with the landscape.In the case of older landfills, reclamation measures are frequently required, although these can be undertaken to enable co-existence with modern waste disposal operations based on an integrated system of waste management, and should be included by land-use urban planning as a place of mutual interest to the community.The modern landfills designed to reduce the impact produced on the environment and the territory, may provide an opportunity to intervene with large scale projects. Based on these premises, it would be interesting to focus on the possibility of future reclamation of the landfills under construction during the design stage by applying an approach that takes into account future use from a technical and, economical perspective from the outset.