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César au banquet ou la refondation rituelle de Rome
2006
La raffigurazione lucanea del banchetto che Cesare si fa allestire a Farsalo dinanzi ai cumuli di cadaveri (Bellum civile 7, 787-803) ha la funzione precipua di illustrare la ferocia disumana del vincitore furens. Il nuovo banchetto, questa volta non metaforico ma reale, che nello stesso libro, a distanza di pochi versi dal primo (7, 825-846) le belve celebrano sulle spoglie dei caduti definisce una volta per tutte la natura bestiale del tiranno, chiarendo come egli si cibi davvero dei cives, suoi consanguinei in quanto membri della gens Romana, il cui sangue “realmente” ricade dal cielo su di lui. Il Cesare di Lucano trova in letteratura un altro personaggio che ha condiviso le medesime es…
Are Brands Postmodern Relics? Taking a Closer Look at New Sacred Objects
2011
Summary : Ever since the Church lost its monopoly on the sacred, no longer able to solely determine its form or contents, the social sphere has gradually taken over this value, applying it to new human and social objects. As a result, the modes of expression of the sacred have multiplied, along with the subjective and intimate experiences of modern individualism. Among the vast number of potential manifestations of this value, to which almost everything now seems to aspire, this paper will concentrate on commercial brands as vectors of meaning, with the hypothesis that some of them seek to position themselves, in postmodern society, as new figures of the sacred. This area of study is close …
A Parody of the Church Service in Seventeenth-Century Finland. Reconstructing Popular Religion on the Basis of Court Records
2012
The Ka’ulayawaa festivals among the Wayùu. Exploring continuities and variations in forms, meanings and contexts through ethnographic sources
2022
In this paper I review and compare the main sources of information about the ka’ulayawaa festivals among the Wayùu, an Amerindian people inhabiting in the semiarid Guajira peninsula (Northern Colombia and Venezuela). For their peculiar mix of songs, dances, imitative plays and competitive games, inserted into a same festive framework, these festivals are particularly interesting to be studied as expressive metacommentaries (in the sense of Turner) of Wayùu social structures, cultural values and worldview. Nevertheless, they have not so far been the subject of a specific anthropological analysis, also because they ceased to be celebrated around the middle of the twentieth century, that is, b…
Las necrópolis de La Boatella y la calle San Vicente Mártir (Valencia). Topografía y ritual funerario
2019
El objetivo de nuestro trabajo es el estudio de dos de las necrópolis de época imperial de la ciudad de Valencia: las de La Boatella y la calle San Vicente Mártir. Ambas se encuentran separadas por apenas medio kilómetro de distancia, pero nunca antes se había llevado a cabo un estudio sistemático de ellas. La de La Boatella fue la primera identificada en la ciudad y es hasta la fecha la más extensa. Hemos querido dar a nuestro trabajo un doble enfoque: por un lado historiográfico, que ha conllevado el estudio de toda la documentación relacionada con la primera necrópolis con el fin de conocer los primeros hallazgos y tener una visión más completa de la misma; y otro arqueológico, en cuanto…
A Family Meal as Fiction
2020
Stacie Friend's theory of fiction departs from those ap- proaches that seek to identify the necessary and sufficient conditions for a work to count as fiction. She argues that this goal cannot really be achieved; instead, she appeals to the notion of genre to distinguish between fiction and nonfiction. This notion is significantly more flex- ible, since it invites us to identify standard¿but not necessary¿and counter-standard features of works of fiction in light of our classifi- catory practices. More specifically, Friend argues that the genre of fiction has the genre of nonfiction¿and only that genre¿as its con- trast class. I will refer to the particular way in which Friend elabo- rates …
Dramat - teatr - mit : "Oblubienica z Messyny" Friedricha Schillera w kręgu mitotwórczych projektów romantyzmu
2016
Friedrich Schiller’s tragedy, "Braut von Messina", being a project of a new tragedy form and the plot structure modelled on the mythic story of Oedipus’s family, is usually placed in the developmental seąuence of the genres of Schicksalstragodie and Jambentragodie. Yet, the ostentatious condensation and muddling of the motives of the Oedipus myth in the plot calls for the use of the chronologically close categories of romantic irony and romantic myth-making, and subseąuently, for asking a ąuestion concerning the intention of establishing the mythical world by means of a ritual performed with the use of theatrical measures.
Rappresentazioni del sacro femminile. I busti femminili "di tipo agrigentino" in contesto
2021
Il contributo esamina la categoria dei busti fittili femminili in ottica contestuale, concentrando l'attenzione su due casi tra i più significativi a oggi noti: il Santuario rupestre di Agrigento e il Santuario del cd. altare di Demetra a Lipari. L'esame comparato consente di evidenziare sia le ricorrenze sia le specifiche connotazioni che la formula assume nella pratica rituale di ciascun santuario. The contribution examines the category of female fictile busts from a contextual point of view, focusing attention on two of the most significant cases known to date: the rupestrian sanctuary of Agrigento and the sanctuary of the cd. altar of Demeter in Lipari. The comparative examination allow…
Grupos de edad y género en un nuevo vaso del Tossal de Sant Miquel de Llíria (Valéncia)
2005
Presentamos en este trabajo una tinaja de grandes dimensiones inédita con decoración figurada procedente de la ciudad ibérica del Tossal de Sant Miquel de Llíria (Valencia). Con un elevado índice de fragmentación. el vaso muestra interesantes figuraciones como una escena femenina de hilado y tejido, joven a caballo, así como damas estantes. Su iconografía nos aproxima al análisis de los grupos de edad y género en la cultura ibérica: ternas como la naturaleza o los rituales de tránsito a la edad adulta. La dimensión simbólica de las escenas plasmadas en este vaso de encargo se integra en el programa de imágenes de la antigua Edeta, en un marco urbano y aristocrático, de tradición mediterráne…
Introduction
2020
The material dimension of cult practices and ritual communication in ancient sanctuaries is the central issue of all contributions gathered in the book, which has been framed within three complementary areas of enquiry. Firstly, the architectural settings of sanctuaries was examined beyond temple buildings to appraise the wider context of their structural and spatial complexity. Secondly, the material culture of votive deposition and religious feasting is analysed in terms of performative characteristics and through the lens of anthropological approaches. Thirdly, the significance of gender in cultic practice is investigated in light of the fresh data retrieved from the field.