ETNOGRAFIE DEL CONTEMPORANEO _ n. 2 /2019

Questo secondo numero di Etnografie del contemporaneo si articola in due sezioni e un intermezzo fotografico.La prima sezione raccoglie testi che affrontano tematiche di carattere storico-religioso come il culto dei gatti in alcune pratiche religiose contemporanee della tradizione indiana (Spanò), due culti religiosi italiani ancora attivi  che si focalizzano su due bambini mummificati “Simonino” e “Donatino” (Giancristofaro e Villa), le trizzi di donna in Sicilia (Mannella), dreadlock che si suppongono di origine soprannaturale e la comparazione da un punto di vista dell’antropologia politica tra due regioni del Sud Europa (Alcantud). Tra la prima e la seconda sezione è inserito un intermezzo fotografico dal titolo Cemento amato che presenta il progetto sul “non finito” calabrese di Angelo Maggio. La seconda sezione propone una riflessione sui social media e ragiona sui processi attraverso i quali vengono costruite le nuove icone virtuali (Spaziante), sul web come strumento di trasmissione delle tradizioni musicali orali (Tumminello) o di conservazione e fruizione dei dialetti (Matranga) e delle pratiche di costruzione delle identità diasporiche attraverso le performance musicali dal vivo (Serratore).

 

Trizzi di donna.Tra etnopatia e virtù
Pier Luigi Josè Mannella

Abstract. In Sicily, the public manifestation of the trizzi di donna, dreadlocks with an esoteric meaning and a supernatural origin, express relations between the individual body and the social body. With the trizzi di donna, the subject communicates his preternatural status, a protection above the real that must be respected and feared, a condition of mystical superiority determined by favorable entities that have chosen him and endowed with transcendental powers and immunities.They are also documents of the ancient link that donni di fora, transubstantial women often identified as witches, have with the divinities of nature and with the demons they encounter during their ceremonial operations.

 

Il culto dei gatti in India.
Continuità ed evoluzione di credenze e pratiche religiose dall’India vedica all’India contemporanea
Igor Spanò

Abstract. Cat as an animal is a sporadic presence in the Vedic mythology and Brahmanic works on rituals, while it appears in a few cult practices of contemporary popular religiosity in India. This article holds that in Indian devotional practices, the cat is conceived as an animal with an ambiguous nature. It also suggests that the cat cult is linked with the need to tame chaos, violence, and conflict, and to place them in a controlled, orderly and pacified cosmos. To understand these phenomena, this article studies, from a multidisciplinary perspective, contemporary religious practices in the light of the Indian tradition, and suggests that the cat cult was subject to substantial Brahmanization.

 

Sub Youtube.
Un’immersione nel mondo degli Youtuber
Lucio Spaziante

Abstract. The article tells of a fleeting experience of anthropological immersion in the textual world of Italian youtubers, addressed with the external point of view of a semiotician, together with the support of a teenager, that is, an insider. The description shows how the simple help of a webcam and an internet connection potentially allow anyone to create a youtuber identity. Furthermore, a synthetic typology of the most successful contents offered by youtubers is proposed, making a comparison with traditional media contents and genres, also showing the specific elements of this medial ambient.

 

Intermezzo:
Cemento Amato
fotografie di Angelo Maggio testi di Gioacchino Criaco, Pietro Gaglianò, Arturo Lavorato, Francesco Lesce, Orietta Sorg

 

Tradizioni musicali siciliane nel web.
YouTube e Facebook
Emanuele Tumminello

Abstract. This paper presents the results of a research conducted through of the two major social networks: YouTube and Facebook. The study discusses some exemplary cases with regard to ethnomusical events (specifically, Sicilian musical practices of oral tradition) that are nowadays widespread on the web and the reasons that motivate these “presences”. With the help of adequate cognitive tools, social media can be a productive research ground and since research is the result of interpersonal relationships, they could be considered – to a certain extent – as a valid investigation tool.

 

Il Wenhua Zhongguo Sihai Tongchun a Milano.
Musica dal vivo e trasmissione dei valori culturali cinesi alla diaspora
Francesco Serratore

Abstract. This article discusses the ethnography of a music event organized at the Arcimboldi Theater in Milan (Italy) by the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council. The contribution offers a first analysis of this migratory phenomenon, focusing on transnationality and the relations between the diaspora and the motherland within the Chinese community in Milan. Discussing the musical elements presented during the event, the article highlights key features of Chinese popular music production in recent years and the cultural elements transmitted to both the Chinese living in China and the diaspora.

 

L’informatica nella ricerca geolinguistica.
L’esperienza siciliana
Vito Matranga

Abstract. Dialectological research has been widely affected by technological advances to some extent and, as a result, by computer sciences as well. This has had an impact not only on the level of methodological renewals, but also on the level of a theoretical rethinking of the discipline itself. In light of some general considerations, the implications of information technology in dialectological research, and, in particular, in geolinguistic research, will be evaluated and discussed by taking into account the operational plan relating to a specific geo(socio)-linguistic research project, namely, the Atlante Linguistico della Sicilia (ALS).

 

La Cuestión meridional Analogías y diferencias Mezzogiorno-Andalucía
José Antonio González Alcantud

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I corpi mummificati di Donatino e Simonino.
Due casi di “vita virtuale” nel cattolicesimo italiano
Lia Giancristofaro, Marta Villa

Abstract. The article proposes some considerations on two religious cults that arose the one in Trento (XV century), the other in an Abruzzi little town (XX century). These cults are still alive and focused on the mummified bodies of “Simonino” and “Donatino”. These two babies becomes the object of worship and devotional practices starting from a local and familiar devotional practice. Through the historical reasons for the affirmation, permanence and diffusion of these extralithurgical worships, the article elaborates some general considerations related to the Catholicism today in Italy..