Riviste Clueb (Cooperativa Libraria Universitaria Editrice Bologna)
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Recensione a Alberto Baldi, Magie di mare. Fabulazioni e raffigurazioni di antiche paure, Squilibri, Roma, 2015
No full textDissimulare l’anomia: Mafie locali e rifunzionalizzazione del modello tradizionale. Il caso della Mafia Garganica (Foggia)
No full textThis paper treats the relationship between blood feud paradigm and mafia practices in the Gargano region of Southern Italy. The case study discussed, coming from a long-term ethnography, is about alliance and conflict practices between two criminals groups that represent their violent behaviour with the words of tradition. The argument is that the Gargano mafia groups use the traditional normative value paradigm to create consensus within the community, root themselves in the local territory, and protect their criminal interests. The article concludes that the reciprocity mechanism of blood feud paradigm used by criminals groups to represent their conflict is a communicative strategy functional to hide the criminal intent behind the reassuring symbol of blood spilled that must be avenged.
Simboli e processi di costruzione simbolica. La “Terra dei Fuochi” in Campania
No full textIn the anthropological sciences, research on symbols is a relevant and well recognizable field of study. In most cases, symbolism has been analyzed above all in the magical-religious sphere. In the present study we propose an analysis of the symbolic construction processes in the secular field. Starting from environmental problems present in a region of Southern Italy, Campania, the article proposes a morphological and semantic analysis of waste fires. Considered as dead objects, domestic and industrial waste preserve a series of properties that generate social phenomena of risk and disease. By consulting digital, literary, iconographic sources, etc. the study offers an interpretation of symbols as factors of cultural destabilization and identity
Recensione a Eugenio Imbriani, La strega falsa. Distinzioni e distorsioni in antropologia, Progedit, Bari, 2017
No full textThe most European place in St. Petersburg: the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography between the Past and the Future
No full textThe article presents a short survey of the history of Peter theGreat Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) of theRussian Academy of Sciences (MAE RAS). Today MAE RAS is one of thelargest and oldest ethnographic museums in the world. The richest scientificcollections of MAE RAS (today more than 1.2 million units of storage)consistently evolved throughout its 300-year history primarily as a result ofintensive expeditionary and research activities of the Academy of Sciences.The history of Russia in the last three hundred years is also the history of theMuseum. It shared with the country the breakthrough of the Peter the Greatand Catherine epochs, the great achievements for Russian science and cultureof the 19th century, the achievements of the “great era” of Soviet academicscience. The museum remembers the years of Great terror, the horrors of theSiege of Leningrad, and the difficult times after the collapse of the USSR. Thepriority of science in the system of state values, the study and preservation ofnational cultures and interethnic dialogue are the key aspects of the Museum'sactivities. They always coincided and coincide today with the most importanttasks of Russian statehood
The role of documentary filmmaking in formation of visual anthropology of Russia
No full textIn the history of forming of visual anthropology as a method ofintercultural communication in Russia up to the present time documentarycinematograph takes a dominant lead. Taking into account the change ofideology and the information technologies’ development level there can bemarked several stages:• Already in the pre-revolutionary period the documentary cinematographstarted realizing its cognitive function, which made its core functionwith time. Unpretentious short fragments of the chronicle are nowadaysconsidered the rare evidences of the passed life.• After the revolution the new state from its very steps set a task forcinematography to form a “new man”. This movement was headed byDziga Vertov, an ideologist of a special vision of reality via cinema cameraand via influencing the spectators through the documentary screen. His“kino-pravda” had become a symbol for the researchers of the real worldwith the help of the movie language. The movie “A Sixth Part of the World”became an unprecedented project of a simultaneous documenting of livesof different peoples in vast territories of the country, and it inspired otherdocumentary filmmakers for making movies on ethnographic topics.• The post-war period was the time of a reviewing “kino-atlas” based onpopular science movies – “travelogues”, where just a little time was sparedto ethnographic topic. The common cinema target became showing theachievements of the Soviet system. Participation of scientific communitywas limited to advisor’s role. Just in some particular cases there werecreated university and academic ethnographic movies.• The first in the USSR territory festival of visual anthropology in Parnutown offered a new approach to showing the life of human communities.The main challenge of the film directors was to reveal the essential featuresof lives of those people who confided to tell their stories. Such principlesof visual anthropology as authenticity and moral responsibility towards thedepicted culture became a challenge to the attitudes to forming the mindsetof the spectator in an available form.The contemporary period of visual anthropology development is marked withsearch of ways of integration of scientific approaches of modern anthropologyand a newly forming ethical and aesthetical language of the documentarycinema
Traditional Northern communities in ethnographic film: Khanty. The case of the documentary film Tiny Katerina
No full textThis article investigates the representation of traditional culturein ethnographic films among the indigenous peoples of the Russian North.The special attention is paid to childhood in traditional culture of Khantypeoples in Ugra. The article focuses on the documentary film Malen’kaiaKaterina (Tiny Katerina; Ivan Golovnev 2004), which depicts the childhoodof a Khanty girl in northwestern Siberia over the course of three years.Authors analyze the child’s relation to nature, adulthood, and the developmentof gender identity. The article looks into the cinematographic techniques usedfor the film creation and major episodes of the film such as “a child`s rolein Khanty culture”, “play”, ‘the adult world”. Also explored are objectiveand subjective conditions in which the cinematographic image is created,with a special emphasis being put on studying filmmaker's (director's) rolein film production. The conclusion drawn is that, on the one hand, theethnographic film is a valuable contribution to Anthropology that adds tothe corpus of documents on traditional culture of the indigenous peoplesof the Russian North. On the other hand, the film contains evidence ofscientific criticism and allows one to explore cinematographic material fromanthropological, historical, and psychological positions. Authors came toconclusion that ethnographic cinema can be seen as promising researchmethodology in the field of contemporary anthropology. This essay re-elaborates and enriches some of the themes already present in a previouscontribution The Representation of Childhood in Ethnographic Films ofSiberian Indigenous Peoples: The Case of the Documentary Film Malen’kaiaKaterina (Tiny Katerina) [Golovnev I., Golovneva E. 2016, 83-106]
Gli albori del folklore ucraino. Antecedenti e primi passi di un’etnografia alla ricerca delle comuni e antiche radici del popolo ucraino
No full textThis article discusses the main stages that have marked theorigin and the development of the various Anthropological disciplines inUkraine. From the seventeen-century onwards, several texts containingthe notes of the foreign travellers on the Ukrainian territories and theirinhabitants started to be discovered. Furthermore, over the next two centuries,the Ukrainian lands became the focus of study not only for Ukrainianscholars, geographers and linguists, but also for poets and painters, who oftenenjoyed adding ethnographic nuances to their stories. A crucial contributionwas also provided by different institutions, namely universities, scientificsocieties and amateur associations, for which the interest in the demo-ethno-anthropological disciplines became stronger and even more evident
Contaminazioni ambientali, alterità ecologiche, corpi ribelli. Note antropologiche
No full textStarting from the critic perspective of medical anthropology with reference to the problem of the environmental contamination the author reflects on the human body as a vulnerable junction of the interchange of culture and nature, a physical place of processes of social and material embodiment, and as the fulcrum of a complex interweaving of geopolitical forces and injustices. The impact of pollutants is expressed through the dynamics of transformation of human bodies into toxic bodies, ecological alterities characterized by social vulnerabilities and inequalities, and so living texts which can tell stories of contamination, disease, and oppression. Female rebelling bodies burst onto the public scene, trying, by their knowledge and practices, to realign ecology and economy. Finally it is highlighted how the relationship between environmental contamination, protection of territories and the right to health is inscribed in conflicting fields of forces where a new biological citizenship is played and fertile spaces can be open for a political ecology to which medical anthropology can obviously offer a rich contribution
Spazi di cura trans – nazionali, pluralismo medico e percorsi di accesso ai servizi sanitari, fra immigrate filippine e ucraine
No full textThis article, born of a wider research, aims to further study how the creation of “transnational health spaces” and the reliance on medical pluralism intertwine, in the case of Filipino and Ukrainian female migrants with difficulties in accessing health services and how such difficulties are overcome through several resources and networks. This work relies on the interviews carried out with the forty female migrants part of an investigation, employed an anthropological approach within two Italian cities differing in both their social and health-related policies, Pisa and Naples