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EtnoAntropologia, 2017 The stories of healing from illness of late nineteenth century documenting the graces bestowed by the Virgin or a saint and votive paintings of the same period shed light on epidemic diseases, official therapies and devotional practices.
Domenica Borriello
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EtnoAntropologia, 2017 This paper treats the relationship between vengeance and witchcraft in the contemporary Guaraní-speaking indigenous region of Isoso, in the Bolivian Chaco.
Francesca Scionti
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“ANTI-PSYCH”: REFLECTIONS ON BODIES AND ITS DOUBLES IN THE AMAZON
Espaço Ameríndio, 2012 This article focus on the question about how to talk about a soul without reducing it to a mere image that represents the human body. In order to do so, this thesis returns the ethnographic data on the Araweté and Yanomami peoples, to the cinema studies ...
Leif Grunewald
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Mäetagused, 2012 The main aim of the research was to describe the image of family life presented in post-socialist jokelore. Contemporary material (from the late 1990s till the present day) consisting of jokes published in books, booklets, newspapers and on the Internet ...
Dorota Brzozowska
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Le leggi della formazione del mito nel pensiero di E. Burnett Tylor
EtnoAntropologia, 2018 The aim of this article is to reinterpret Tylor’s reflection on myth, avoiding what Stocking defines as a presentist approach. I will try to contextualize the vision of the Victorian Author firstly by saying that he was neither a direct descendent of ...
Alessandra Ciattini
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Soviet Ethnography: A Failed Affair with Marxism
EtnoAntropologia, 2018 Soviet power came into being after Revolution of 1917 with the efficient support of counter-imperial ethnic/national forces which also provided later on the composition of USSR as multinational state and, accordingly, growth, or even boom, of the ...
Andrei V. Golovnev
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EtnoAntropologia, 2019 After briefly examining the pronatalist policy of Ceausescu's regimen and its consequences on women's reproductive health, some results of female emigration from Romania to Italy are taken into consideration, as the phenomenon of children left behind ...
Donatella Cozzi
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The exchange of words and the exchange of things: politics and language in the Brazilian Congress
ManaSince Lévi-Strauss, anthropologists have been trained to see the exchange relationship identified by Mauss in The Gift as a form of communication. Linguistics, reasoned Lévi-Strauss, holds the key to our understanding of society. This paper develops this
Luiz Eduardo Abreu, David Rodgers
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