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Cous cous teaches that love never stops!
2022
La tradizione culinaria del cous cous, originaria dei paesi del Nord Africa e del Maghreb, sbarcata in Sicilia a seguito della dominazione araba e diffusasi grazie alle attività commerciali intraprese dai pescatori siciliani, ha conquistato la cucina regionale che ne ha inaugurato una variante originale: il cous cous di pesce. L’innesto tra culture gastronomiche differenti è stato lo spunto per l’avvio di una nuova tradizione culturale, il San Vito Cous Cous Fest, un evento gastronomico/culturale all’insegna dell’integrazione tra i popoli, della convivenza pacifica, dell’arricchimento reciproco e del cibo come nutrimento dell’anima. The culinary tradition of cous cous, original from the cou…
La linea spezzata. Una ricostruzione critica dell'attuale deficit di coerenza
2021
Siamo nell’era della smemoratezza. Una smemoratezza prodotta dalla sovrabbondanza di informazioni, dalla pratica del multitasking, dalla propensione a demandare la conservazione dei ricordi ai device e ai cloud di cui facciamo uso ogni giorno. La fragilità della memoria ha spezzato la linea che congiungeva passato, presente e futuro, la linea che li attraversava e li rendeva coerenti. Ma lo ha fatto solo nella nostra testa, perché sul piano della realtà gli effetti delle scelte di ieri non smettono di presentarsi all’oggi. L’allargamento degli orizzonti culturali prodotto dalla globalizzazione ha ridotto tutti gli elementi del nostro panorama a dettagli lontani e indistinguibili. Ma lo ha f…
Traditional festivities, political domination and social reproduction: Case analysis of Valencia’s Fallas
2020
The traditional festivities have been usually analysed in social sciences as a mode of generating sociability and social cohesion, not only in traditional societies but also in modern ones. However...
“El espíritu fáustico del mundo técnico”. Enfermedad mental y crítica cultural en la España de Franco
2021
'El espíritu fáustico del mundo técnico'. Enfermedad mental y crítica cultural en la España de Franco.‒ Teniendo en cuenta la querencia casi constitutiva de la medicina mental por la crítica cultural, no debe sorprender que, dentro de su particular litigio con la modernidad, la dictadura franquista fuese un periodo de in tensa floración del ensayismo psiquiátrico conservador. Partiendo de los temores de una posible regresión física y moral de la 'Hispanidad' a causa de la artificiosidad de la vida moderna, la infiltración del liberalismo y la erosión de los valores tradicionales, el género fue desplazando su interés hacia un análisis de la 'sociedad neuro tizada' que, con referentes filosóf…
‘Something’s Not Right in Silverhöjd’: Nordic Supernatural and Environmental and Species Justice in Jordskott
2022
In the Swedish/Finnish/British/Norwegian television series Jordskott (2015–17) child victims’ mysterious disappearances signal that ‘something’s not right’ in Silverhöjd, a Swedish town. Three detectives uncover a conflict between the locals who depend on a local industry and preternatural human-like but non-human forest creatures familiar from Nordic tradition and fairylore. Both humans and semi/non-humans are ambivalent, but what sets the latter apart is their implication in caring for nature, protecting it, and punishing those who harm it. We analyse this series’ instantiation of a folkloristic popular green criminology, based in the idea that popular discourses’ representations of crime…
Cuentos de fantasmas. Persistencia espectral de los centros de detención y tortura chilenos
2020
Los centros de detención y tortura de la dictadura chilena han desaparecido o están desapareciendo. Con ello, las memorias de dichos lugares parecen asimismo perderse. Sostendremos aquí, no obstante, que la desaparición física de los lugares no implica la pérdida de todo rastro, puesto que su recuerdo subsiste a través de otros medios, como la tradición oral. Exploramos, en particular, la posibilidad de que sean los relatos de actividad sobrenatural, los así llamados “cuentos de fantasmas”, los que sirvan de escenario público de la memoria social, permitiendo que esta sea convocada.
Rumiando realias y otros intraducibles del léxico geográfico oral del Sáhara Occidental
2016
Resumen La esencia de este trabajo son las palabras que vamos a tratar de abordar y dilucidar en el ambito de un contexto muy concreto y limitado geografica y culturalmente: expresiones y denominaciones pertenecientes a la lengua hassania, variante arabe hablada en el Sahara Occidental, referidas a la geografia y al relieve de dicho territorio. Por lo tanto, se trata de un lexico especifico perteneciente a la tradicion oral del pueblo saharaui y que ha ido pasando de generacion en generacion, acumulando, con el correr de los anos, datos, matices y connotaciones que no debemos ignorar a la hora de nombrar o citar cualquier duna, pozo o acacia de cualquier rincon perdido del desierto. Son los…
Ancient genres in the poem of a medieval humanist: Intertextual aspects of the “De sufficientia votorum suorum” (c. 126 H.) of Baudri de Bourgueil (1…
1995
In the second half of the 11th century, a humanist circle of clerical poets, living around the central valley of the Loire, was writing poetry in classical language and metre. Baudriu of Bougueil, who wrote an impressive corpus of Latin poems, was an expert in the language, style, verse, motifs and genres of the classical and later antique pagan and Christian poetry, and treated theological as well as profane and explicitly ancient topics. About 1107, when he was urged to become bishop and to abandon, his personal independence and quiet monastic life, he gave voice to his disgust of the new ecclesiastical burden by a long poem in elegiac distichs. This paper tries to show the ancient genres…
Ethnobotanical research in Cava de' Tirreni area, Southern Italy
2019
Abstract Background To best of our knowledge, this is the first quantitative ethnobotanical study with the aim of documenting the local knowledge and practices of using plants for curing diseases in the Cava de’ Tirreni area, Salerno Province, Campania Region, Italy. The present ethnobotanical field study, carried out during 2016–2017, documents the local uses of 119 plant species for medicinal, food and domestic purposes. Methods Ethnobotanical data were documented from 70 informants: field data were collected and information on the uses of plants was gathered through semi-structured and structured interviews with persons who still retain traditional ethnobotanical knowledge. Documented da…
The Influence of the Avicennan Theory of Science on Philosophical Sufism
2020
Abstract This article discusses the application of the Avicennan theory of demonstrative science on taṣawwuf, or the Divine Science (al-ʿilm al-ilāhī), by members of the Akbarian tradition, particularly Ibn ʿArabī’s (d. 1240) stepson and most influential disciple, Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī (d. 1274), and his commentators, among whom the most prominent was Mullā Muḥammad b. Ḥamza al-Fanārī (d. 1431). It aims to find out what kind of relationship was developed between Avicennan logic and Sufism by the two members of the Akbarian school in the post-classical Islamic thought. It also seeks to show that the convergence between different currents of Islamic thought—Sufism and philosophy in this case—…