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An Anthropological Insight on the Commonalities between Tourism and Archaeology
2019
Over the years, archaeology maturated towards something else than a scientific discipline. Archaeological sites are culturally showed as emerging and recycled tourist attractions (Robb 1998; Bateman 2006; Rowan & Baram 2004; Karlsson & Gustafsson, 2006). At a closer look, tourism is understood as a leisure activity which is enrooted in the needs of relaxing and evasion while archaeology -as a knowledge platform which is based on scientific method- explores the history of ancient cultures. This raises a more than interesting question respecting the commonalities and differences between archaeology and tourism. To some extent, archaeologists find ancient relics and objects whi…
COVID-19, Terrorism, and Conspiracy Plot: Everyone Is Guilty Until Proven Innocent
2021
COVID-19 is reaffirming the tendency of nation-states to find imaginary enemies when hit with a crisis—enemies to whom its origins and perpetuation could be attributed. This is needed for their unity and survival. However, a strong and serious global pandemic like COVID-19 would need the identification of strong and serious enemies. This is a dangerous proposition if taken to anywhere beyond rhetoric. China is identified as the antagonist; yet, a real confrontation with China would cause more harm than what COVID-19 might cause. It is essential that we lead the world toward a new war, “against a virus”. This chapter reflects the problem of hospitality, as strongly associated with conspiracy…
Artistic value of audience index
2016
Una de las manifestaciones de la cultura actual es su tendencia a la horizontalizacion. Marcel Duchamp senalo ya hace casi un siglo esta realidad, que comenzo a materializarse en la esfera artistica con la industria cinematografica y que ha alcanzado su maxima expresion con la revolucion digital. Internet, ha venido a cambiar, o mejor, a demostrar de facto lo que algunos teoricos senalan desde hace decadas. Y es que las audiencias no son esa masa uniforme, pasiva, aislada y, por tanto, facilmente controlable por la Industria Cultural o por el poder politico o economico. En la sociedad telematica, la facilidad de acceso a la oferta y la saturacion informativa exigen una participacion al espe…
Inmigrantes “chinxs” en la Buenos Aires globalizada
2018
En las últimas décadas y debido a la globalización, aun siendo su afincamiento restrictivo, la movilidad de personas coloca incluso a sociedades como la argentina, que se autodefine como de inmigrantes, frente a interesantes encrucijadas discursivas: ¿Qué elementos mueve la vulnerabilidad de los actuales inmigrantes en la autopercepción de las autobiografías migratorias de lxs argentinxs? El artículo 25 de la Constitución argentina fomenta explícitamente “la inmigración europea”, pero, ¿qué sucede con la “nueva migración”, por ejemplo con la de personas originarias de China, que se establecieron en los años 1980 y ya cuentan con una “segunda generación” o con otras llegadas aún más reciente…
L’imaginaire trichologique dans l’œuvre de Julien Green (1924-1930)
2015
I capelli e, per estensione, la pelosità occupano generalmente un ruolo importante nel campo dell'antropologia e dell'etnologia, dove sono oggetto di numerosi studi. Trovano anche un posto significativo nella categoria della descrizione e più specificamente in quella del ritratto. Nell’opera letteraria di Julien Green le notazioni sui capelli e, più in generale, sul sistema tricologico dei personaggi sono numerose e partecipano pienamente alla costituzione dell’ "effet-personnage". Questo articolo si propone di esaminare dettagliatamnte il rapporto che intrattengono nell'immaginario dell'autore attraverso una lettura dei suoi primi racconti (Christine, Le Voyageur sur la terre, Léviathan (L…
Hibridisme i autoreferència en el fantàstic d'Espiral, de Manuel Baixauli
2018
The aim of this paper is to define and to analyse the fantastic universe of short stories by Manuel Baixauli published in the volume Espiral (2010), an original and highly significant example of modern fantastic literature that has abolished the real and imaginary borders, that is to say a significant example of fantastic literature conceived as a language phenomenon. The conception of reality integrates and naturalises the supernatural and the irrational in a vision that joins multiple dimensions and perspectives of reality. The self-referential component is also of essential importance in this fantastic, which assimilates and exhibits themes and motifs of inherited traditions in a fully c…
Eric Rohmer, Alain Robbe-Grillet : parcours fantasmatique
2015
In this article, we study the relationship between Alain Robbe-Grillet and Eric Rohmer’s works through the problematic of fantasy. Even though Robbe-Grillet’s films seem to be the opposite extreme of the ones of the director of the « Nouvelle vague », we will see that both authors share notable similarities. Indeed, both Robbe-Grillet and Rohmer focus on the world of dream and fantasy in films in which the notion of reality is questioned. Through the study of figures like the « frivolous girl », we will also focus on the treatment of stereotypes, the figurations of the imaginary without which fantasy may not exist. Eventually, we will treat the problem (thematically as well as aesthetically…
Correction to: Ernst Mach’s „Bekehrung“ zum Atomismus/Ernst Mach’s “Conversion” to Atomism – A Dialogue Between Mach and Popper-Lynkeus by Otto Blüh
2019
Otto Bluh was a great admirer of Ernst Mach’s and contributed a number of papers to Machian scholarship. It is believed that he wrote this skit around 1966, perhaps to coincide with the celebration of the 50th anniversary of Mach’s death and most likely for Bluh’s own amusement, as it was never published. It consists of an imaginary conversation in pseudo-Viennese dialect, between Mach and his friend, Josef Popper-Lynkeus based on the questionable tale of Mach’s conversion to atomism. This paper includes a brief introduction to the skit as well as its transcription and translation into English, published for the first time. It was also dramatized for the first time in occasion of the Ernst …
Development of symbolic play through the use of virtual reality tools in children with autistic spectrum disorders: two case studies.
2008
Difficulties in understanding symbolism have been documented as characteristic of autistic spectrum disorders (ASDs). In general, virtual reality (VR) environments offer a set of potential advantages for educational intervention in ASD. In particular, VR offers the advantage, for teaching pretend play and for understanding imagination, of it being possible to show these imaginary transformations explicitly. This article reports two case studies of children with autism (aged 8:6 and 15:7, both male), examining the effectiveness of using a VR tool specifically designed to work on teaching understanding of pretend play. The results, confirmed by independent observers, showed a significant adv…
CONSTRUCTION OF THE SOCIAL IMAGINARY OF ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES THROUGH DISCOURSE IN SOCIAL NETWORKS: CASE STUDY OF THE CHANNEL "ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES …
2019
Resumen: El objetivo de esta investigación es analizar cómo se construye el imaginario social de las terapias naturales, complementarias y alternativas a través de su discurso en redes sociales. Para ello, se ha escogido el canal temático “Terapias alternativas y remedios naturales” de la plataforma YouTube. Se ha realizado un análisis de contenido de dicho canal y se han examinado las sinergias con la página de Facebook, y el sitio web que se vinculan al mismo, con la finalidad de determinar si, además de contribuir en la difusión de estas terapias, existe una intencionalidad distinta. El periodo de análisis del canal temático ha sido de un año: desde julio de 2017 a julio de 2018. Se ha s…