The Other Side of Illegal Housing. The Case of Southern Italy

2018 ◽  
pp. 517-524
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Guida
Keyword(s):  
Southern Italy ◽  
The Other

the context of evidence from other spheres. This evidence of manipulation may correspond to increasing concern with the production of corporate descent groups, lineages or other communities or sub-groups as suggested by Robb (1994a: 49ff) for southern Italy and by others dealing with the Neolithic elsewhere (e.g. Chapman 1981 ; Thomas & Whittle 1986). This suggests different spatialities to those described for the earlier Epipalaeolithic burials, as does the evidence in much of Neolithic southern Italy for separation of activities such as not only the procurement but also the consumption of wild animals. Remains of these are extremely rare at most settlement sites, but evidenced at other locations whether associated with 'cults' e.g. the later Neoltihic (Serra d'Alto) hypogeum at Santa Barbara, (PUG: Geniola 1987; Whitehouse 1985; 1992; 1996; Geniola 1987), or at apparently more utilitarian hunting sites e.g. Riparo della Sperlinga di S. Basilio (SIC: Biduttu 1971; Cavalier 1971). One interpretation may wish to link these to newly or differently gendered zones or landscapes (see below). ART, GENDER AND TEMPORALITIES In southern Italy there is a rich corpus of earlier prehistoric cave art, parietal and mobiliary, ranging from LUP incised representations on cave walls and engraved designs on stones and bones; probable Mesolithic incised lines and painted pebbles; and Neolithic wall paintings in caves (Pluciennik 1996). Here I shall concentrate on two caves in northwest Sicilia; a place where there is both LUP (i.e. from c. 18000-9000 cal. BC) and later prehistoric art, including paintings in caves from the Neolithic, perhaps at around 6000 or 7000 years ago. These are the Grotta Addaura II, a relatively open location near Palermo, and the more hidden inner chamber of the Grotta del Genovese on the island of Levanzo off north west Sicilia. These are isolated, though not unique examples, but we cannot talk about an integrated corpus of work, or easily compare and contrast within a widespread genre, even if we could assign rough contemporaneity. Grotta dell'Addaura II Despite poor dating evidence for the representations at this cave, material from the excavations perhaps suggests they are 10-12000 years old (Bovio Marconi 1953a). Many parts of the surface show evidence of repeated incision, perhaps also erasure as well as erosion, producing a palimpsest of humans and animals and other lines, without apparent syntax. Most of the interpretations of this cave art have centred on a unique 'scene' (fig. 3) in which various masked or beaked vertical figures surround two horizontal ones, one (H5) above the other (H6), with beak-like penes or penis-sheaths, and cords or straps between their buttocks and backs. These central figures could be flying or floating, and have been described as 'acrobats'. Bovio Marconi (1953a: 12) first suggested that the central figures were engaged in an act of homosexual copulation, but later preferred to emphasise her suggestion of acrobatic feats, though still connected with a virility ritual (1953b). The act of hanging also leads to penile erection and ejaculation; and in the 1950s Chiapella (1954) and Blanc (1954; 1955) linked this with human sacrifice, death and fertility rites. All of these interpretations of this scene are generally ethnographically plausible. Rituals of masturbation (sometimes of berdaches, men who lived as women) are recorded from North America, where the consequent dispersal of semen on ground symbolised natural fertility (Fulton & Anderson 1992: 609, note 19). In modern Papua New Guinea ritual fellatio was used in initiation ceremonies as a way of giving male-associated sexual power to boys becoming men (Herdt 1984) and this ethnographic analogy has been used by Tim Yates (1993) in his interpretation of rock art in Scandinavia, which has figures with penes, and figures without: he argues in a very unFreudian manner that to be penis-less is not necessarily a female prerogative.

2016 ◽  
pp. 76-86
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Southern Italy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Natural Fertility ◽  
Santa Barbara ◽  
North West ◽  
Show Evidence ◽  
Sexual Power ◽  
Compare And Contrast ◽  
Cave Art

Descriptive Epidemiology of Breast Cancer in the City and Province of Torino

1981 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
pp. 273-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandro Colombo ◽  
Sabina Rendine ◽  
Roberto Zanetti
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Southern Italy ◽  
Mortality Rates ◽  
The Other ◽  
Descriptive Epidemiology ◽  
Death Rates ◽  
Breast Cancer Death ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
The City ◽  
Qualitative Changes

Between 1950–54 and 1970–74 the mortality rates from breast cancer showed a 35 % increase in Italy. In the city of Torino, an increase occurred between 1950–54 and 1960–64 but not in the following 10-year period. These trends were confirmed by the analysis of rates by cohorts of birth. In the province of Torino, between 1960–64 and 1970–74 the increase in breast cancer death rates was far lower than in the other provinces of Piedmont. It is suggested that the peculiar patterns in the city and in the province of Torino reflect qualitative changes of lifestyle brought about by the conspicous immigration from southern Italy during the sixties.

Vision, subalternity, and religious imaginary in southern Italy

2020 ◽  
pp. 003776862096065
Author(s):  
Roberto Beneduce
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Southern Italy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Traumatic Experience ◽  
Case Histories ◽  
New Horizons ◽  
The World ◽  
Ways Of Life ◽  
Religious Imaginary

Vision and divine voice, however defined, are at the heart of religious experience. The meeting with the Other sustains new ways of life and grants deep transformations in subjectivity. After chronicling the difficulty, indeed outright impossibility, of circumscribing and defining these complex experiences, as well as the opacity of the dominant categories that have been adopted by sociology, anthropology, phenomenology, and psychiatry, this article explores three case histories from southern Italy. Each one reveals a particular knot where private (and traumatic) experience has incorporated historical horizons and collective anxieties. By adopting a historical and comparative perspective, the author investigates how visions, voices – and more generally the encounter with transcendence – enable subalterns to deal with suffering and marginality and, more importantly, to build a view of how the world is and works. Finally, the article suggests that these experiences allow a transformation of the nostalgia for agency into new ‘horizons of expectation’.

Agathokles’ Life and Times

2021 ◽  
pp. 9-38
Author(s):  
Christopher de Lisle
Keyword(s):  
Southern Italy ◽  
Source Material ◽  
The Other

This chapter provides a narrative overview of Agathokles’ life and career as a foundation for the analytical chapters which follow. The collapse and revival of Syracusan hegemony in Sicily and the rise of Macedon in mainland Greece were the central features of Agathokles’ youth. His rise to dominance in Syracuse in the years preceding 317 BC highlight the difficulties inherent in our source material for his career. This seizure of power resulted in three interlinked wars: against his exiled Syracusan opponents, against the other poleis of eastern Sicily, and eventually against the Carthaginians. Agathokles invaded Africa in 310. Unable to decisively defeat the Carthaginians, he made peace with them in 306, but destroyed his opponents in Sicily. Around 304 BC he assumed the title of king. Subsequently he engaged in campaigns in southern Italy and the Adriatic. An ill-managed succession resulted in the dissolution of his kingdom at his death in 289.

Chariot Groups in Fifth-Century Greek Sculpture

1955 ◽  
Vol 75 ◽  
pp. 104-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cornelius C. Vermeule
Keyword(s):  
Southern Italy ◽  
Fifth Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Positive Evidence ◽  
Greek Sculpture

Some of the most magnificent representations of chariots in mid career are seen on the coins of Sicily and Southern Italy toward the close of the fifth century B.C. There are two major theories concerning the appearance of these striking compositions in Sicilian numismatic art. One theory is that dies for these coins are the independent products of local, native artists of highest competence. The other is that the dies for these pieces are the work of Attic artists who migrated to the prosperous cities of Sicily to take up new careers as workers in the minor metallic arts, as gem cutters, and as die sinkers for the various local rulers. We lack positive evidence. We cannot identify any artist who left Attica to pursue work of this type in Southern Italy or Sicily. Scholars have produced a mass of conjecture and speculation on this subject.The treatment of space and depth in the chariot compositions seems to the writer to provide a new possibility for grouping and relating the representations of chariots in the late fifth century—both those on the major monuments in sculptured relief and those on the Tetradrachms and Dekadrachms of Syracuse and Akragas. From a restudy of the methods of relief representation and from a survey of information derived from such connecting links between major sculpture and coinage as silverware, gems, and vases further light may be thrown on the problems of the artistic derivation of the renowned die compositions of later fifth-century Sicily.

scholarly journals X. On the Viola of the Ancients; by the Lord Viscount Mahon

Archaeologia ◽  
1831 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 103-104
Author(s):  
Mahon
Keyword(s):  
Southern Italy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Great Abundance ◽  
General Growth ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Foreign Origin

I Shall attempt in this Paper to prove that the plant called Viola by the Romans, is not, according to the received opinion, our common Violet, but the flower called Iris, and well-known in our English gardens. This idea first occurred to me, when in the winter of 1825-1826 I travelled on horseback over the greater part of Sicily, and observed, that amongst the numerous wild flowers which that genial climate was already bringing forth at that season, there was no Violet to be seen, but, on the other hand, a great abundance of Iris; and I have since been informed that such is likewise the case in southern Italy. This seemed to me to render it improbable, that a plant so common should have been unnoticed by the ancient pastoral poets, and that their strains should be devoted to one apparently of foreign origin, of later introduction, and of less general growth.

Popular lexicon of Greek origin in Italian varieties

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-120
Author(s):  
Francesco Crifò
Keyword(s):  
Southern Italy ◽  
Northern Italy ◽  
Roman Period ◽  
The Other ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Romance Languages ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
The Many ◽  
The One

AbstractGreek-speaking people have been sailing the Mediterranean for millennia. At various stages of their development from Latin, the Romance languages have been influenced by their idiom. In Italy and in its islands, this role has been particularly evident due to the many rich and culturally active colonies in Southern Italy before and during the Roman period on the one hand, and through the later Byzantine occupation, which lasted several centuries in some areas, on the other. In this article, after a brief summary of the historical background (2.), the characteristics of the lexical borrowings from Greek in the local idioms of Southern (3.) as well as of Central and Northern Italy (4.) will be sketched. Here and there, and in the conclusions (5.), the status quaestionis and the latest orientations of the research will also be broadly outlined.

La "Domiciliazione imposta" e la sedentarizzazione dei Rom a Melfi

2009 ◽  
pp. 23-34
Author(s):  
Stefania Pontrandolfo
Keyword(s):  
Southern Italy ◽  
Local Level ◽  
State Policies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Historical Anthropology ◽  
Institutional Practices ◽  
The One ◽  
Central Level

- The paper presents some reflections about the historical anthropology of a Southern Italy rom community, rooted since many centuries in the region Basilicata, in the little town of Melfi. These families sedentarization process can be considered as the result of special Italian state policies and of different institutional practices. The paper shows on the one hand the policies adopted at a central level and their implementation at a local level, and on the other the strategies with whom the rom faced them. Finally, the comparison between Italian different regional contexts offers a deeper understanding about these processes.

The Carnival of the Salento Greeks in Martignano: Functions and Symbols

2021 ◽  
pp. 123-135
Author(s):  
Светлана Александровна Сиднева
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Southern Italy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Typical Structure ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
Cultural Features

Карнавал Салентийской Греции (il Carnevale della Grecìa Salentina) в коммуне Мартиньяно является примером традиции этноязыковых меньшинств Южной Италии, сознательно восстановленной с учетом довольно архаичных и специфичных для традиционной культуры черт. С одной стороны, событие имеет типичную для европейских календарных праздников, точнее, городских карнавалов, структуру и включает такие мероприятия, как представления с масками, парады повозок с аллегорическими фигурами, сожжение или разрывание масленичного чучела, символизирующего уходящий период года. С другой стороны, в зависимости от социально-политической номенклатуры ритуалы обретают дополнительные смыслы, новые функции, празднества обогащаются воссозданными или новоустановленными ритуалами. Источниками работы стали личные наблюдения и опросы во время праздника в феврале 2013 г., материалы официального сайта салентийского карнавала и из архивов Культурно-туристического парка им. Дж. Пальмьери в Мартиньяно, итальянские СМИ, итальянские туристические сайты, работы итальянских, греческих и русских исследователей. Основные цели исследования: показать степень присутствия «греческих» элементов в карнавале Мартиньяно и механизмы, которые используют организаторы мероприятия для придания ему «греческой идентичности»; определить место карнавала в культурно-экономической политике Италии, описать особенности идентичности греков Саленто. The Carnival of the Greeks of Salento (il Carnevale della Grecìa Salentina) in the commune of Martignano is an example of a revived tradition among the ethnolinguistic minorities of southern Italy that also takes into account archaic and traditional cultural features. On the one hand, the event has a typical structure for European calendar holidays and urban carnivals. It includes such carnival ritual constants as performances with masks, processions of carts with allegorical figures, and the burning or tearing of a Carnival effigy symbolizing the declining season. On the other hand, depending on the socio-political nomenclature, rituals acquire additional meanings and new functions, and the festivities are enriched with recreated or newly established rituals. The article’s main objectives are to reveal the degree of presence of Greek elements in the Martignano Carnival and the mechanisms that the organizers of the event use to refer to its Greek identity; to determine the role of the carnival in the cultural and economic policy of Italy; and to analyze the identity of the Greeks of Salento. It is based on the author’s personal observations during the holiday in February 2013; materials from the official website of the Salentine Carnival and from the archives of the Parco Turisctico e Culturale Palmieri in Martignano; Italian media; Italian tourist sites; and works by Italian, Greek and Russian scholars.

scholarly journals An Updated Checklist of The Alien Flora In a Mediterranean Region of Europe: The Case of Calabria (Southern Italy)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanni Spampinato ◽  
Valentina Lucia Astrid Laface ◽  
Giandomenico Posillipo ◽  
Ana Cano Ortiz ◽  
Ricardo Quinto Canas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Invasive Species ◽  
Alien Species ◽  
Mediterranean Region ◽  
Southern Italy ◽  
Invasive Alien Species ◽  
The Other ◽  
Vascular Flora ◽  
Calabria Region ◽  
Alien Flora ◽  
The One

Abstract An updated checklist of the Calabrian alien vascular flora is presented. The alien flora of the Calabria region (Southern Italy) representing almost 12% of the regional flora and comprises 381 alien taxa, among which there are 370 angiosperms, 9 gymnosperms and 2 ferns. In relation to the state of spread, 35 invasive alien species (IAS) have been identified (4 of these are included in the list of Union Concern, sensu Regulation (EU) no. 1143/2014) which represent 9% of the Calabrian alien flora.In the last years the alien flora in Calabria has increased: in particular, alien species have increased over a decade from 190 to the current 381 taxa. If on the one hand this is due to new introductions, resulting from the globalization that relentlessly affects the whole planet, on the other hand it is to be linked to awareness of the problem of alien species and the increasing intensity of research in recent decades. This study would provide a baseline for further advanced studies on the management of invasive species and on the invasion ecology.

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