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ABSTRACT The ancient practice of cremation has been documented across numerous cultures, yet burnt remains can indeed become a huge challenge for anthropologists, both in archaeological and in forensic contexts. The analysis of such skeletal material presents significant challenges associated with the alterations caused by the process of burning.
Carlotta Sala +6 more
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Continuité des rituels et “Rituels manqués” lors d'une Mascarade d'hiver dans les Alpes italiennes
Alpine winter masquerades, also known as carnival masquerades, may be regarded as one of the most complex phenomena within the field of study of cultural anthropology and folklore.
Lia Zola
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Black (or) Italians? The Construction of Blackness in Italian Context - Past and Present [PDF]
Black (or) Italians? The Construction of Blackness in the Italian Context – Past and Present. In the last 30 years Italy experienced relevant changes due to its new configuration as a postcolonial country and land of transnational migrations, without ...
FABBRI, GIULIA
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The consumer society and the (false) myth of mass democratisation [PDF]
About fifty years from its first publication in 1970, La société de consommation. Ses mythes ses structures (Paris Denoël) confirms itself as a lucid analysis of the meanings at the basis of the consumption dynamics within contemporary society.
MARCHETTI, Maria Cristina
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ABSTRACT Studying goose domestication through archaeological finds has been challenging due to the similar skeletal morphology of the European domestic goose and its wild progenitor, the greylag goose (Anser anser). We analyzed stable carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) isotopes from bone collagen of subfossil domestic and potentially domestic geese to ...
Johanna Honka +7 more
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Ritual Continuity and “Failed Rituals” in a Winter Masquerade in the Italian Alps
Alpine winter masquerades, also known as carnival masquerades, may be regarded as one of the most complex phenomena within the field of study of cultural anthropology and folklore.
Lia Zola
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Abstract This study critically analyses the main narratives surrounding the Atlantic blue crab (Callinectes sapidus) in the Lagoon of Venice. We used a mixed‐method approach, performing a qualitative discourse analysis on a sample of 68 textual sources to identify the narratives across two sectors in the management of the case study: media and politics,
Elisa Zanoni +3 more
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Transizioni educative. Antiche criticità e nuove sfide nei processi formativi contemporanei
This paper explores the contribution that cultural anthropology can offer to the Italian educational system in a phase of educational transition. It asks some questions about how the educational system influences the students and how it influences the ...
Patrizia Resta
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From January 2018 until late July of the same year, I had an opportunity to participate in the Human Rights and Migration Law Clinic (hereafter HRMLC or ’the Clinic’) in Torino, where I got a chance to experience working with the asylum seekers ...
Jovana Bogićević
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Notes on contributors to Explorations in Ethnic Studies, Volume 14, Issue 2 ...
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