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Culture and Causality: Non-Western Systems of Explanation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
The logic of some other systems of thought, explanation, and prediction are discussed, in order to find what can be learned about the sociocultural contexts and their functions in other cultures. The truths they may represent are about the human quest to
O\u27Barr, William M.
core   +2 more sources

A photograph of four orientalists (Bombay, 1885): knowledge production, religious identities, and the negotiation of invisible conflicts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
By analyzing the history of a photograph taken in a Bombay photo studio in 1885, this article explores notions of the production of knowledge on India and cultural dialogues, encounters, appropriations, and conflicts in colonial British India in the late
Burton   +60 more
core   +1 more source

Bushido as allied: The Japanese warrior in the cultural production of Fascist Italy (1940-1943)

open access: yesRevista de Artes Marciales Asiáticas, 2017
Introduction: After the signing of the alliance among Japan, Germany and Italy’s governments in September 1940, several journals arose in order to spread the Japanese culture among people who knew very little about Italy’s new allied.
Sergio Raimondo   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Our diversity and the Italian Constitution. Do we really need human races? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper describes a proposal regarding the presence of the word "race" in the Italian Constitution. Three points are worth of note. Firstly, simply removing the word race from the Constitution is of no real help, since we could miss an indispensable ...
Danubio, Maria Enrica   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Lavoro, azienda e tecnologia. Riflessioni su un'esperienza di antropologia applicata

open access: yesCambio, 2016
This article presents a field research as an example of anthropological study applied to the working dynamics within an Italian ICT company. This experience is narrated through three levels of reflection linked by the theme of “differences”: the ...
Chiara Balella
doaj   +1 more source

Porta Palazzo, Anthropology of an Italian Market

open access: yesAnthropology of food, 2013
Rachel E. Black, Porta Palazzo, The Anthropology of an Italian Market, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012, 221 pp. Foreword by Carlo Petrini. Markets are trading spaces of a universal nature. They are places where people buy and sell small quantities of goods – mostly food, though not exclusively.
openaire   +2 more sources

Cultural Expertise

open access: yesNaveiñ Reet: Nordic Journal of Law and Social Research, 2022
Starting from the evolution of jurisdictions vis-à-vis European and international law, and the challenges of globalization and immigration, this contribution focuses on the concept and different declinations of multiculturalism, and on the role of social
Gualtiero Michelini
doaj   +1 more source

Psychiatric and Cognitive Features in Italian Women With the FMR1 Premutation: A Comprehensive Assessment Using SCID‐5 and Standardized Cognitive Measures

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Women with the FMR1 premutation (PM) are at increased risk for fragile X‐associated conditions (FXPAC), including cognitive and psychiatric features collectively termed fragile X‐associated neuropsychiatric disorders (FXAND). This study is the first to systematically investigate cognitive and psychiatric features in Italian female premutation ...
Federica Alice Maria Montanaro   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Un dibattito per l'egemonia [PDF]

open access: yesRechtsgeschichte - Legal History, 2008
The Italian science of criminal law in the second half of the nineteenth century is closely linked with politics and with the construction of the new Italian liberal State.
Francesco Rotondo
doaj   +1 more source

That is how we do it around here: Levels of identification, masculine honor, and social activism against organized crime in the south of Italy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Masculine honor is an important cultural code in the south of Italy. Italian criminal organizations (COs) manipulate and exploit this code to maintain legitimacy among local populations and exert social control in the territory where they operate.
Abrams, Dominic   +3 more
core   +1 more source

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