Search results for " Myth"

Il culto dei gatti in India. Continuità ed evoluzione di credenze e pratiche religiose dall’India vedica all’India contemporanea

2019

Cat as an animal is a sporadic presence in Vedic mythology and Brahmanic works on rituals, while it appears in a few cult practices of contemporary popular religiosity in India. This article holds that in Indian devotional practices, the cat is conceived as an animal with an ambiguous nature. It also suggests that the cat cult is linked with the need to tame chaos, violence, and con$ict, and to place them in a controlled, orderly, and pacified cosmos. To understand these phenomena, this article studies, from a multidisciplinary perspective, contemporary religious practices in the light of the Indian tradition, and suggests that the cat cult was subject to substantial Brahmanization.

Le molteplici risonanze di Vāc

2021

introduction to the publication of the works of the conference held on 25 and 26 June in Palermo

Tra alterità e domesticazione: il mare tra i Wayuu

2011

Stones, maps and cities

2021

Il presente contributo, articolato in tre paragrafi, propone una riflessione sulla prospettiva che, all'interno dell'approccio geografico, sottolinea il valore della rappresentazione cartografica. Dopo aver sintetizzato brevemente il contesto teorico attraverso una serie di spunti ed episodi, si propone una riflessione sugli spazi urbani contemporanei, che intreccia i discorsi geografico, urbano e letterario, sulla necessità inalienabile di risolvere la complessità nel segno cartografico. La mappa, intesa come modello di conoscenza, accompagna da sempre l'uomo nella rappresentazione dei luoghi ma, soprattutto, nella rappresentazione del sé nello spazio. Può la città contemporanea, apparente…

Natural Limits and other stories/Limiti naturali e altre storie

2014

Il volume Natural Limits and other stories/Limiti naturali e altre storie costituisce la prima edizione italiana dei racconti di cinque dell'autrice britannica Marina Warner, con testo a fronte e introduzione critica.

The Norman myth in the artistic culture of Hapsburgs’ Sicily: identity construction and representation of power

2015

In Sicilia, nell’Ottocento, si assistette in architettura a un revival neonormanno che trovava in quel momento glorioso della storia isolana la legittimazione per rivendicazioni autonomiste mirate alla ricostituzione di un regno di Sicilia finalmente libero dal giogo borbonico e da Napoli. Tuttavia, un fenomeno culturale analogo si era già registrato nel corso del xvi secolo. Nel rinascimento siciliano, infatti, si guardò non soltanto al classicismo e alla Roma dei Cesari, ma anche all’eredità del medioevo normanno, nel tentativo forse di costruire un’identità per un’isola, come la Sicilia asburgica, non libera e melting pot di culture diverse. Il caso del mito normanno presenta, però, in s…

A paradigm of extreme rainfall pluvial floods in complex urban areas: the flood event of 15 July 2020 in Palermo (Italy)

2021

Abstract. In the last few years, some regions of the Mediterranean area have witnessed a progressive increase in extreme events, such as urban and flash floods, as a response to the increasingly frequent and severe extreme rainfall events, which are often exacerbated by the ever-growing urbanization. In such a context, the urban drainage systems may not be sufficient to convey the rainwater, thus increasing the risk deriving from the occurrence of such events. This study focuses on a particularly intense urban flood that occurred in Palermo (Italy) on 15 July 2020; it represents a typical pluvial flood due to extreme rainfall on a complex urban area that many cities have experienced in rece…

Assessment of Modelling Structure and Data Availability Influence on Urban Flood Damage Modelling Uncertainty

2014

Abstract In modelling application, different model structures may be equally reliable in terms of calibration ability but they may produce different uncertainty levels; moreover, available data during model calibration may influence the uncertainty linked to the predictions of the same modelling structure. In the present paper, Bayesian model-averaging was applied to several flood damage estimation models in order to identify the best model combination for urban flooding distribution analysis in Palermo city center (Italy). During the analysis, was taken into account the effect of the available data growth on the model uncertainty with respect to the different combination of models outputs.

Scientific papers University of Latvia; vol. 795

2014

Spodra Austruma. Mūsdienu sabiedrības vērtību transformācija skolas jauniešu vidē ; Līga Āboltiņa. 7-gadīgu bērnu sociālās adaptēšanās raksturojums ; Ilze Dinka. Bērnistabu pētījumi bērnības pedagoģijā ; Rasma Garleja, Airita Brenča. Izglītības vadības un pedagoģijas zinātnes mijattiecības ; Ligita Ģeida. Specifiskais atbalsts bērniem ar redzes traucējumiem kā nozīmīgs speciālās pedagoģijas darbības virziens ; Nora Jansone-Ratinika. Tēva pedagoģiskās kompetences portretējums Latvijā ; Vladimirs Kincāns. Analogy as an Important Pedagogical Method ; Ryk Sergiy. The Pedagogical Mythology: Origins and Projection in the Modern Ukrainian Pedagogy ; Stavitskiy Gennadiy. Psychological Analysis of M…

Dall’alterità alla città. Regalità, sessualità e agricoltura in Gilgameš, Enkidu e gli Inferi

2021

Analisi antropologica del componimento mitologico sumerico Gilgamesh, Enkidu e gli Inferi