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Italian Witchcraft and Shamanism
Shamanism is thriving as an exotic import and a hidden native tradition in Italy today. This ethnographical work uncovers two faces of Italian shamanism. The first is trans-cultural shamans who creatively adapt rituals and beliefs from indigenous cultures worldwide. Second, extensive fieldwork shows how regional folk magic practices of segnatoriand segnatrici constitute a little-known but enduring form of native Italian shamanism. By documenting these parallel worlds, contemporary magic workers appear to be the heirs of ancient local healing traditions. Offering rare insights into vernacular religion, this book vividly portrays shamans' past and present on the Italian peninsula.
Ambient Assisted Living
This book documents the state of the art in the field of ambient assisted living (AAL), highlighting the impressive potential of novel methodologies and technologies to enhance well-being and promote active ageing. It covers a broad range of topics, with sections on technological sensors and platforms, social robotics for assistance, assistance and care applications, health and medical support methodologies and technologies, as well as the analysis, modelling and design of AAL services. The book comprises a selection of the best papers presented at the 8th Italian Forum on Ambient Assisted Living (ForitAAL 2017), which was held in Genoa, Italy, in June 2017 and brought together researchers, ...
Habitual Rhetoric
Writing has always been digital. Just as digits scribble with the quill or tap the typewriter, digits compose binary code and produce text on a screen. Over time, however, digital writing has come to be defined by numbers and chips, not fingers and parchment. We therefore assume that digital writing began with the invention of the computer and created new writing habits, such as copying, pasting, and sharing. Habitual Rhetoric: Digital Writing before Digital Technology makes the counterargument that these digital writing practices were established by the handwritten cultures of early medieval universities, which codified rhetorical habits—from translation to compilation to disputation to amplification to appropriation to salutation—through repetitive classroom practices and within annotatable manuscript environments. These embodied habits have persisted across time and space to develop durable dispositions, or habitus, which have the potential to challenge computational cultures of disinformation and surveillance that pervade the social media of today.
A memoria futura
Questo libro polifonico ripercorre la realizzazione del progetto “La Casa del Rione Sanità. Racconti di orgoglio e di giustizia sociale”. Un’esperienza che si è rivelata seminale per gli strumenti di interpretazione adottati, generando interazione con gli abitanti di una comunità leggendaria, il Rione Sanità, fiero delle proprie maestrie artigianali e capace di inventare piccole e rivoluzionarie storie di partecipazione, famoso in tutto il mondo per la narrazione cinematografica e letteraria. Associazione Italiana di Storia Orale e APS Napoli inVita hanno investito sulla formazione dei narratori di comunità, mappando in modo inedito una collettività animata dalla voglia di riscatto, documentando emozioni, immagini, paesaggi sonori, ordinandoli in un archivio aperto e accessibile. Un patrimonio di storie orali in grado di costituire un processo inedito di autodeterminazione culturale, da coltivare e arricchire. Un nuovo modo di fare storia, per il bene comune, a memoria futura.
Metodi e tecniche integrate di rilevamento per la realizzazione di modelli virtuali dell'architettura della città
Il progetto nazionale di ricerca Prin 2004 sui Metodi e tecniche integrate di rilevamento per la realizzazione di Modelli Virtuali dell'Architettura e della Città ha concluso il suo percorso e oggi i risultati vengono resi pubblici con questo volume. La disponibilità di molti dati sotto forma digitale ha determinato l'integrazione tra le diverse metodologie di rilevamento, sia innovative che tradizionali, il che costituisce un notevole progresso per giungere ad una conoscenza profonda e globale dell'architettura e della città. Negli ultimi quaranta anni alle tradizionali tecniche di rilevamento architettonico, che si erano sostanzialmente mantenute immutate per molti secoli, si sono aggiu...
Wear In Advanced Engineering Applications And Materials
Wear is one of the main reasons mechanical components and materials become inoperable, rendering enormous costs to society over time. Estimating wear allows engineers to predict the useful life of modern mechanical elements, reduce the costs of inoperability, or obtain optimal designs (i.e. selecting proper materials, shapes, and surface finishing according to mechanical conditions and durability) to reduce the impact of wear.Wear in Advanced Engineering Applications and Materials presents recent computational and practical research studying damage and wear in advanced engineering applications and materials. As such, this book covers numerical formulations based on the finite element method (FEM) — and the boundary element method (BEM) — as well as theoretical and experimental research to predict the wear response or life-limiting failure of engineering applications.
The Italian Cantata in Vienna
A history of music for the imperial court “from a professor, choral director, and professional tenor who has studied Viennese cantatas for half a century” (Lowell Lindgren, Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Lawrence Bennett provides a comprehensive study of the rich repertoire of accompanied vocal chamber music that entertained the imperial family in Vienna and their guests throughout the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. The cantata became a form of elite entertainment composed to amuse listeners during banquets or pay homage to members of the royal family during special occasions. Concentrating on Baroque cantatas composed in the Habsburg court, Bennett draws extensivel...
Women Writers of Great Britain and Europe
A valuable survey and reference resource It is hard to imagine a more needed and more useful literary reference work than this one, which gives students and readers quick access to the lives and work of a wide range of notable female writers from England and the Continent, from Aphra Behn to Emily Bronte, from Simone de Beauvoir to Isak Dinesen, from Bridget of Sweden to Hannah Arendt. Writers in more than 30 languages are included: French, Czech, Greek, Italian, Swedish, Spanish, German, Russian, Portuguese, Serbian, Catalan, Arabic, Hebrew, Dutch, Bulgarian, Croatian, Slovak, and more. Covers 1,500 years and all major genres Going back 15 centuries, the Encyclopedia covers the authors of n...
Methodology of Relational Sociology
This is the first book addressing explicitly and specifically the methodological issues of relational sociology, and more broadly of the new relational paradigm in social sciences. The dynamically developing relational movement in social and cultural sciences is fueled by various classical and contemporary theoretical inspirations. Relational approaches propose various models of relational analyses, such as field analysis, social space analysis, network analysis, or the critical realist relational heuristic. The relational turn, which promotes interdisciplinarity in research, simultaneously reflects the drive towards an innovative reconstruction of sociology. Contemporary relational sociolog...
