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Laura Bonfanti, Domenico Lo Vetro, †Raffaella Poggiani Keller, Margherita Vanni, Stefania Vai, David Caramelli, Jacopo Moggi Cecchi
Analisi di resti scheletrici umani da siti risalenti al tardo Neolitico e all'età del Rame della provincia di Bergamo
Anthropology

Human osteological remains from Late Neolithic and Copper Age sites in the province of Bergamo were examined and reviewed. These derive from caves in...

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The study, "Analisi di resti scheletrici umani da siti risalenti al tardo Neolitico e all'età del Rame della provincia di Bergamo," offers a compellin...

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Francesca Bigoni, Fausto Barbagli, Fabio Di Vincenzo
The colonial face casts of Nello Puccioni: an emblematic case from Italy's fascist period
Anthropology

This article focuses, for the first time, on an in depth and systematic study of the face casts production of the Florentine anthropologist Nello Pucc...

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This article presents a highly relevant and timely examination of Nello Puccioni's colonial face cast collection, a hitherto understudied but deeply s...

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Paweł Hamera
Wróżki i zacofanie irlandzkich chłopów w świetle wybranych dziewiętnastowiecznych dzienników z podróży
Anthropology

THE ROLE OF FAIRIES IN THE LIVES OF IRISH PEASANTS AND THEIR DEPICTION IN SELECTED NINETEENTH-CENTURY TRAVELOGUES Life in the nineteenth-ce...

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This paper, titled "Wróżki i zacofanie irlandzkich chłopów w świetle wybranych dziewiętnastowiecznych dzienników z podróży" (The Role of Fairies in th...

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The Pure and the Impure: Anthropological Approaches for the Study of the Ancient World
Anthropology

L'articolo esplora come le categorie di puro e impuro siano state introdotte e utilizzate negli studi di antropologia culturale e sociale e come il di...

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The article, "The Pure and the Impure: Anthropological Approaches for the Study of the Ancient World," promises a timely and insightful exploration in...

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Diego Durán e lo studio (etnografico?) del mondo náhuatl. Appunti per una ricerca in corso
Anthropology

Come diretta conseguenza della scoperta dell’America, la cultura occidentale dovette obbligatoriamente confrontarsi con quella dei popoli locali. In q...

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This paper, titled "Diego Durán e lo studio (etnografico?) del mondo náhuatl. Appunti per una ricerca in corso," presents an intriguing exploration in...

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Romina Carboni
Hagnos, Miasma e Katharsis. Viaggio tra le categorie del puro e dell’impuro nell’immaginario del mondo antico. Convegno internazionale: Cagliari, Cittadella dei Musei, 4-6 maggio 2016
Anthropology

Cronaca del Convegno internazionale “Hagnos, Miasma e Katharsis. Viaggio tra le categorie del puro e dell’impuro nell’immaginario del mondo antico” sv...

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This submission, explicitly titled and abstracted as a "Cronaca del Convegno internazionale," serves as a chronicle or report of an academic conferenc...

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Marco Giuman
Repercussa imaginis umbra est. Qualche considerazione su malia e malocchio nel mondo antico.
Anthropology

Abstract: Sono poche le vicende culturali che possono vantare una continuità funzionale tanto marcata come quella che, nel corso delle  vicende u...

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This paper, titled "Repercussa imaginis umbra est. Qualche considerazione su malia e malocchio nel mondo antico," delves into the fascinating and rema...

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Marco Serra
Cave megalitiche della Sardegna
Anthropology

L’importanza assunta dalle geo-risorse in antico ha indotto la realizzazione del seguente lavoro nel quale si presentano i risultati di uno studio sul...

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The paper "Cave megalitiche della Sardegna" presents a focused and important study into the prehistoric exploitation of lithic geo-resources for megal...

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Myer Samra
Buallawn Israel: The Emergence of a Judaising Movement in Mizoram, Northeast India
Anthropology

During the past forty years, a Judaising movement has taken root among the Chikim in Mizoram, Manipur, and the Chin State of North Burma. T...

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This paper introduces a fascinating and complex case study of religious emergence and transformation in Northeast India and North Burma, focusing on t...

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Wojciech Dabrowski
Not by Word Alone: Cross-cultural Communication between Highlanders and Missionaries (SVD) in the Jimi Valley, Western Highlands, Papua New Guinea
Anthropology

Is communication (especially of complex religious ideas!) between peoples of different cultures possible and if it is, then under what cond...

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This paper promises a timely and critically engaged examination of cross-cultural communication, particularly concerning the transmission of complex r...

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