Riviste Clueb (Cooperativa Libraria Universitaria Editrice Bologna)
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From Ethnography to Ethnology to Anthropology. The “quiet revolutions” within the Ukrainian Folk Studies during the 20th and 21st centuries
No full textTracing the history of folk studies in Ukraine during the20th and 21st centuries, one can notice multiple changes in the naming of scientific disciplines: ethnography, ethnology, anthropology. It was neither a mechanical nor an aesthetic step: it was due to deep crises in the humanities and, consequently, to academic transformation processes. The transition from the self-name “ethnographer” to “ethnologist” took place in Ukraine in the 1990s and marked a break with the Soviet scientific methodology. The crisis in the Ukrainian ethnology in 2010s led to the emergence of a new scientific discipline: anthropology. Both events took the form of a “quiet revolution”. This can be explained by the lack of appropriate professional education: in Soviet times, neither ethnographers nor ethnologists were trained in Ukraine, and today there is no specialization as anthropologist in Ukrainian education. That is why new specialists appeared as a result of self-education and retraining from other scientific fields. This, in turn, led to a certain eclecticism of the research methodology in Ukraine
In Search of a Safe Port. The Marian Cult on Lampedusa amid Mass Tourism and the Migrant Crisis
No full textThis contribution focuses on the popular devotion to Our Ladyof Porto Salvo on Lampedusa, looking at the transformations that havereconfigured it over time as a prism through which to analyse the tensionsbetween local dynamics and global forces that affect the island. The articlesuggests that the study of the sacred cartography of the contemporaryMediterranean should be part of the process of “remapping” of the networkof interactions, connections, and hybridisations that characterise the area
Etnologia ucraina. Il tema della tradizione tra passato e presente
No full textThis section seeks to highlight the path of ethnological disciplines in Ukraine after the collapse of the USSR. Following the gaining of independence, Ukrainian ethnology freed itself from the old hierarchies and began to explore new fields of research, while never abandoning the ancient and endowing theme linked to its popular traditions. The investigations in the field of material and immaterial culture still remain the basic pillar of ethnology in this country, although somewhat characterised by a broader examination of the concept of tradition viewed in its various dynamic aspects according to contemporaneity and change. The monographic section, introduced in this article, will mainly focus on the precious contributions of several Ukrainian scientists to traditions, not only from a strictly ethnographic and material viewpoint, but also on a symbolic level in relation to the past and present times
Il “Glorioso San Giovannino di Gesù”: culto familiare e devozione popolare
No full textThe article proposes some considerations on the cult that arose in a town in Campania, Cimitile, in the years between the two world wars. The body of Giovanni Esposito, who died at the age of eighteen, is exhumed: the body is surprisingly mummified. A local cult of the boy, renamed Saint Giovannino of Gesù, is born. In a culture constantly waiting for evident and powerful manifestations of the divine dimension, a series of popular devotional practices become common and shared
Functions and Artistic Specificity of Folk Earthenware in Customs and Rituals of the Calendar Cycle of the Ukrainians
No full text The given paper analyzes functions and artistic features of Ukrainian folk earthenware which was used in customs and rituals of the calendar year, predominantly while celebrating the biggest religious holidays, namely Christmas and Easter. In particular, the author explores such items as triple candlesticks, various earthenware meant for blessing holy water, other types of crockery, particularly pots, round pots, jugs, O-shaped flat jars, flat jars, bowls, makitras, doughnut bowls, goose, piglet and fish roasters, Easter bread moulds, baskets, Easter eggs etc. Folk earthenware has been examined through the context of preparations to and celebration of calendar holidays, which were associated with the beliefs the Ukrainian people had, as well as their analogues in other European people’s traditions
De Turin au Katanga. La globalisation d’un saint italien (saint Jean Bosco)
No full textThe pedagogy formulated by Don Bosco in the nineteenth century, which has its roots in a particular historical context, that of Italy and the city of Turin, has been characterized from the outset by the ambition of a worldwide diffusion. The article presents a case study which focuses on the Salesian mission in Katanga (Democratic Republic of Congo). Tracking the itinerary followed by Don Bosco's pedagogical system the paper analyses, on the one hand, his relationship with the project of colonial domination and, on the other, the process of canonization of Saint John Bosco in Europe
«C’est une maladie qui vient de Dieu»: dā’al-sukarī. Pluralismo medico e credenze religiose in Marocco.
No full textStarting from medical anthropology perspective the author discusses some cultural and social issues related to the experience of becoming diabetic in Morocco. A special focus is about the impact of religious beliefs and practices on the representation of this chronic disease and on its care processes. After a brief analysis about medical pluralism, and the socio-cultural, economic and politic health determinants in this Islamic country, he reports a part of his ethnographic research experience in a ward for the care of diabetes in an hospital at Marrakech, focusing on the story of Noureddine, a middle-aged diabetic man. His intense narrative about his troubled therapeutic itinerary offers, togheter with the point of view of the diabetologists, several insights into the complex relationship among this disease and its representations, traditional medicine and biomedicine, culture and society in Morocco
