Geographers have long debated on the topic of landscape, confronting the ideas of other disciplines and policymakers, always contributing to a positive discussion even for juridical purposes, but never forgetting the necessity to behold critically. The term landscape possesses a double meaning (the thing and its representation), indeed suggesting the considerable complexity of the topic. The real intrinsic risk of the 2000 European Landscape Convention is the demand of transforming what has an unavoidable perceptive-aesthetic nature (landscape), in an object that has a political status (territory). But the difference between the political and the aesthetic is crucial and threatens to undermine the very possibility of the existence of landscape policies. Policies do operate by stating rules and norms, all contained in written laws. On the contrary, the aesthetic field is not reducible, by nature, to any rule or norm, except in the case of dictatorial regimes. In Italy, the actual risk appears to be the latest occasion to produce as many landscape policies as the number of Regions, namely twenty.
{"title":"The European Landscape Convention and the Case of Italy after Twenty Years","authors":"G. Corinto","doi":"10.14673/IJA2021121068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14673/IJA2021121068","url":null,"abstract":"Geographers have long debated on the topic of landscape, confronting the ideas of other disciplines and policymakers, always contributing to a positive discussion even for juridical purposes, but never forgetting the necessity to behold critically. The term landscape possesses a double meaning (the thing and its representation), indeed suggesting the considerable complexity of the topic. The real intrinsic risk of the 2000 European Landscape Convention is the demand of transforming what has an unavoidable perceptive-aesthetic nature (landscape), in an object that has a political status (territory). But the difference between the political and the aesthetic is crucial and threatens to undermine the very possibility of the existence of landscape policies. Policies do operate by stating rules and norms, all contained in written laws. On the contrary, the aesthetic field is not reducible, by nature, to any rule or norm, except in the case of dictatorial regimes. In Italy, the actual risk appears to be the latest occasion to produce as many landscape policies as the number of Regions, namely twenty.","PeriodicalId":84923,"journal":{"name":"International journal of anthropology","volume":"36 1","pages":"1-12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45510956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The present ethno-zoological study describes the traditional knowledge related to the use of different animals and their body parts as medicines by the Garo tribes of the 5 forest villages inhabiting the Garhbhanga Reserve Forest of the Assam-Meghalaya state border, India. Data on therapeutic uses of animals were collected through in-depth interviews with 40 key informants (24 men and 16 women). Nineteen animals or animal products were recorded and they are used for treating about 34 illnesses. The common diseases treated through zoo-therapeutics are- jaundice, malaria, tuberculosis, asthma, toothache, myalgia, weakness, anaemia, paralysis, constipation, dysentery, scorpion poisoning, cough, epilepsy and joint pain. The zoo-therapeutic knowledge was mostly based on domestic animals, but some protected species like wild boar, jackal, sambar, python and some species of the cat, etc. were also mentioned as important medicinal sources. The present work reveals the ethno-medicinal knowledge of Garo tribe. The study warrants further ethnomedical research to record the ethno-zoological information comprehensively. Also, the implications of these ethnomedical practices on the protection of endangered animal species are to be understood.
{"title":"Ethno-Medicinal Practices with Animal Products in The Garhbhanga Reserve Forest in North-Eastern India","authors":"C. Hazarika","doi":"10.14673/IJA2021121074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14673/IJA2021121074","url":null,"abstract":"The present ethno-zoological study describes the traditional knowledge related to the use of different animals and their body parts as medicines by the Garo tribes of the 5 forest villages inhabiting the Garhbhanga Reserve Forest of the Assam-Meghalaya state border, India. Data on therapeutic uses of animals were collected through in-depth interviews with 40 key informants (24 men and 16 women). Nineteen animals or animal products were recorded and they are used for treating about 34 illnesses. The common diseases treated through zoo-therapeutics are- jaundice, malaria, tuberculosis, asthma, toothache, myalgia, weakness, anaemia, paralysis, constipation, dysentery, scorpion poisoning, cough, epilepsy and joint pain. The zoo-therapeutic knowledge was mostly based on domestic animals, but some protected species like wild boar, jackal, sambar, python and some species of the cat, etc. were also mentioned as important medicinal sources. The present work reveals the ethno-medicinal knowledge of Garo tribe. The study warrants further ethnomedical research to record the ethno-zoological information comprehensively. Also, the implications of these ethnomedical practices on the protection of endangered animal species are to be understood.","PeriodicalId":84923,"journal":{"name":"International journal of anthropology","volume":"36 1","pages":"109-117"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45407774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Knowledge is increasingly mainstreamed in current efforts towards addressing global challenges and attaining sustainable development, also in line with 2030 Agenda’s emphasis on the importance of mobilizing and sharing knowledge. While there is an overall consensus that different types of knowledge (e.g., scientific, technological and indigenous knowledges) are required to successfully achieve this global endeavour; one can surmise a hierarchy across the types of knowledge mobilized. The paper aims at providing a reflection on which types of knowledge are mobilized and how, also by highlighting the shortage of knowledge mobilization from the anthropological sciences despite the rich knowledge capital and the willingness of the anthropological community to contribute to the attainment of global goals. Taking this context into account, this contribution recommends actions towards the establishment of a space for knowledge mobilization from the anthropological sciences, in order to strengthen the human dimensions in overcoming global challenges (including the COVID-19 Pandemic and its effect) and in attaining sustainable development.
{"title":"Knowledge mobilization for sustainable development: the space for anthropology:","authors":"L. Spini","doi":"10.14673/IJA2021121070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14673/IJA2021121070","url":null,"abstract":"Knowledge is increasingly mainstreamed in current efforts towards addressing global challenges and attaining sustainable development, also in line with 2030 Agenda’s emphasis on the importance of mobilizing and sharing knowledge. While there is an overall consensus that different types of knowledge (e.g., scientific, technological and indigenous knowledges) are required to successfully achieve this global endeavour; one can surmise a hierarchy across the types of knowledge mobilized. The paper aims at providing a reflection on which types of knowledge are mobilized and how, also by highlighting the shortage of knowledge mobilization from the anthropological sciences despite the rich knowledge capital and the willingness of the anthropological community to contribute to the attainment of global goals. Taking this context into account, this contribution recommends actions towards the establishment of a space for knowledge mobilization from the anthropological sciences, in order to strengthen the human dimensions in overcoming global challenges (including the COVID-19 Pandemic and its effect) and in attaining sustainable development.","PeriodicalId":84923,"journal":{"name":"International journal of anthropology","volume":"36 1","pages":"31-41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47285838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The purpose of this paper is to highlight on the perceptions and practices of society towards single women, specifically the widows, in the context of Nepal. The focus is on issues of gender relations and the status of widow women. The arguments are based on the review of literature and the author’s own observation of social practices towards women and widow women. The discussion starts by defining the concept of women and single women and proceeds through the discussion of their status in relation to men as they are prescribed by codes of conduct of society. This paper focuses on familial assistance to those high caste Nepalese women who are either widowed or estranged from their husbands. Assistance from family is, therefore, essential to single women, but the structure of the kinship system and the norms governing behavior make accessing support sometimes difficult. Affine are responsible for the care of these women, but may have little motivation to provide it-particularly in cases of separation, divorce, or where the women is young or without offspring (therefore needing careful supervision and many years of support). Natal kin may have a greater desire to help, yet they face a number of constraints on their behavior towards once married women; thus they can often provide some assistance, but only rarely substantial support. Among the case studies and life histories of the respondents, most of the life of single women was found that they are in hardship and they are facing chronic problems; social; cultural; economic; psychological etc., even if in heart of city of Kathmandu then imagine what is in the far or in rural?
{"title":"Ethnographic Studies of Stories of Subordinated, Oppressed Single Women in Kathmandu","authors":"B. Dahal","doi":"10.14673/IJA2021121073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14673/IJA2021121073","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this paper is to highlight on the perceptions and practices of society towards single women, specifically the widows, in the context of Nepal. The focus is on issues of gender relations and the status of widow women. The arguments are based on the review of literature and the author’s own observation of social practices towards women and widow women. The discussion starts by defining the concept of women and single women and proceeds through the discussion of their status in relation to men as they are prescribed by codes of conduct of society. \u0000This paper focuses on familial assistance to those high caste Nepalese women who are either widowed or estranged from their husbands. Assistance from family is, therefore, essential to single women, but the structure of the kinship system and the norms governing behavior make accessing support sometimes difficult. Affine are responsible for the care of these women, but may have little motivation to provide it-particularly in cases of separation, divorce, or where the women is young or without offspring (therefore needing careful supervision and many years of support). Natal kin may have a greater desire to help, yet they face a number of constraints on their behavior towards once married women; thus they can often provide some assistance, but only rarely substantial support. Among the case studies and life histories of the respondents, most of the life of single women was found that they are in hardship and they are facing chronic problems; social; cultural; economic; psychological etc., even if in heart of city of Kathmandu then imagine what is in the far or in rural?","PeriodicalId":84923,"journal":{"name":"International journal of anthropology","volume":"36 1","pages":"81-107"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42145958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Historians of science have applied Piagetian stage theory to the history of sciences and philosophy. It was found that central parts of ancient metaphysics such as animism and magic have to be accounted to certain stages well-known in developmental psychology. Greater parts of ancient physics or of Plato´s theory of ideas could be successfully illuminated by the same tool. Accordingly, the historical emergence of the formal operational stage gave birth both to the rise of the early modern philosophy and of the new physical sciences. Piagetian theory is also helpful to describe the very beginnings of philosophy, especially the transformation from mythical to philosophical reasoning. Piaget himself saw the concrete operational stage as the start of philosophy, namely as beginning of the Ionian philosophy. However, there is a stage of philosophy between the myth and the Ionian philosophy. This archaic philosophy shares main patterns both of the myth and of early philosophy; it is the philosophy of illiterate seekers. The Dogon cosmology, documented by Griaule and Dieterlen, represents this kind of archaic philosophy, which was once probably prevailing throughout the world. The French research group did not find the key to this form of philosophy, according to their own frank confession. It will be shown here that it is possible both to explain this kind of philosophy and to earmark their historical role in the history of mind and philosophy.
{"title":"Philosophy before philosophy. The Dogon cosmology reconsidered","authors":"G. Oesterdiekhoff, J. Weiss, S. Papcke","doi":"10.14673/IJA2021121069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14673/IJA2021121069","url":null,"abstract":"Historians of science have applied Piagetian stage theory to the history of sciences and philosophy. It was found that central parts of ancient metaphysics such as animism and magic have to be accounted to certain stages well-known in developmental psychology. Greater parts of ancient physics or of Plato´s theory of ideas could be successfully illuminated by the same tool. Accordingly, the historical emergence of the formal operational stage gave birth both to the rise of the early modern philosophy and of the new physical sciences. Piagetian theory is also helpful to describe the very beginnings of philosophy, especially the transformation from mythical to philosophical reasoning. Piaget himself saw the concrete operational stage as the start of philosophy, namely as beginning of the Ionian philosophy. However, there is a stage of philosophy between the myth and the Ionian philosophy. This archaic philosophy shares main patterns both of the myth and of early philosophy; it is the philosophy of illiterate seekers. The Dogon cosmology, documented by Griaule and Dieterlen, represents this kind of archaic philosophy, which was once probably prevailing throughout the world. The French research group did not find the key to this form of philosophy, according to their own frank confession. It will be shown here that it is possible both to explain this kind of philosophy and to earmark their historical role in the history of mind and philosophy.","PeriodicalId":84923,"journal":{"name":"International journal of anthropology","volume":"36 1","pages":"13-29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49258438","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Studies reported that marginalized populations are more vulnerable towards hypertension than the general populations in India. However, studies are inadequate to address the issues for intervention among the indigenous population. In view, the present study objectives are to investigate the prevalence of hypertension of the Santals of Bankura, West Bengal and also to find out the socio-demographic correlates of hypertension of the study group. Present cross-sectional study was conducted among the Santals living in rural areas of Bankura district of West Bengal. Total enumeration of all the Santal households had been done for socio-demographic data, collected by using standard household census schedule. A total of 472 adults including 206 males and 266 females were recruited as study participants. Blood pressure and different anthropometric data had been measured using standard methods and instruments. JNC 7 classification used to categorize blood pressure data and hypertension was diagnosed as SBP/DBP ≥140/90 mmHg. Descriptive statistics and logistic regression were used to analyze the data. Majority of the study participants were married, non-literate and engaged in agricultural activity as daily labourer. Blood pressure levels of the study population indicate that 22.3% males and 23.3% females were hypertensive. Compared to other tribal groups, Santals showed similar or relatively lower prevalence of hypertension. Results of logistic regression analysis demonstrates that age groups as middle aged (OR= 2.204), elderly (OR= 5.701), family types as joint (OR= 0.317) and nutritional status as overweight (OR= 9.480) were significantly associated with hypertension when other socio-demographic variables remain adjusted.
{"title":"Prevalence of hypertension and its socio-demographic correlates: A micro level study among Santals of Bankura district, West Bengal, India","authors":"B. M. Das, T. K. Chowdhury, A. Mozumdar, S. Roy","doi":"10.14673/IJA2021121072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14673/IJA2021121072","url":null,"abstract":"Studies reported that marginalized populations are more vulnerable towards hypertension than the general populations in India. However, studies are inadequate to address the issues for intervention among the indigenous population. In view, the present study objectives are to investigate the prevalence of hypertension of the Santals of Bankura, West Bengal and also to find out the socio-demographic correlates of hypertension of the study group. Present cross-sectional study was conducted among the Santals living in rural areas of Bankura district of West Bengal. Total enumeration of all the Santal households had been done for socio-demographic data, collected by using standard household census schedule. A total of 472 adults including 206 males and 266 females were recruited as study participants. Blood pressure and different anthropometric data had been measured using standard methods and instruments. JNC 7 classification used to categorize blood pressure data and hypertension was diagnosed as SBP/DBP ≥140/90 mmHg. Descriptive statistics and logistic regression were used to analyze the data. Majority of the study participants were married, non-literate and engaged in agricultural activity as daily labourer. Blood pressure levels of the study population indicate that 22.3% males and 23.3% females were hypertensive. Compared to other tribal groups, Santals showed similar or relatively lower prevalence of hypertension. Results of logistic regression analysis demonstrates that age groups as middle aged (OR= 2.204), elderly (OR= 5.701), family types as joint (OR= 0.317) and nutritional status as overweight (OR= 9.480) were significantly associated with hypertension when other socio-demographic variables remain adjusted.","PeriodicalId":84923,"journal":{"name":"International journal of anthropology","volume":"36 1","pages":"61-80"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49542595","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Humanity as a whole faces a single challenge, perhaps for the first time since prehistory. Just as back then we had to react to the adversities of the natural environment, today we must deal with the Covid-19 pandemic. But while at earlier times we developed in response artifacts, practices and thoughts - in other words, Culture - today long-lasting cultural practices are being disrupted and challenged (Fig. 1). The very chore of our interactions is questioned - that complex system of norms and sensitivities that varies individually and collectively, regulates the physical manifestation of human relations and constitutes the field of inquiry of Proxemics. International safety measures, local cultural norms and individual risk perception combine, generating unpredictable effects: the world appears to be a live social experiment that should be analyzed with an ongoing, interdisciplinary study. The wide corpus of this nearly forgotten discipline, in which our Lab is still fully involved, states the theoretical and methodological premises for such a research, which is at once a unique opportunity and a necessary precondition for future policies. We apply the interdisciplinary and multicultural perspective that characterizes Anthropometry, Anthropology and Social Sciences as a whole to analyze via “Participant Observation” the perception of interpersonal space and built interfaces, which are the archetypes that define our species and vary individually, collectively and diachronically.
{"title":"The Hidden Dimension in Covid Times","authors":"N. Gazzano, M. Masali","doi":"10.14673/IJA2021121071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14673/IJA2021121071","url":null,"abstract":"Humanity as a whole faces a single challenge, perhaps for the first time since prehistory. Just as back then we had to react to the adversities of the natural environment, today we must deal with the Covid-19 pandemic. But while at earlier times we developed in response artifacts, practices and thoughts - in other words, Culture - today long-lasting cultural practices are being disrupted and challenged (Fig. 1). The very chore of our interactions is questioned - that complex system of norms and sensitivities that varies individually and collectively, regulates the physical manifestation of human relations and constitutes the field of inquiry of Proxemics. International safety measures, local cultural norms and individual risk perception combine, generating unpredictable effects: the world appears to be a live social experiment that should be analyzed with an ongoing, interdisciplinary study. The wide corpus of this nearly forgotten discipline, in which our Lab is still fully involved, states the theoretical and methodological premises for such a research, which is at once a unique opportunity and a necessary precondition for future policies. We apply the interdisciplinary and multicultural perspective that characterizes Anthropometry, Anthropology and Social Sciences as a whole to analyze via “Participant Observation” the perception of interpersonal space and built interfaces, which are the archetypes that define our species and vary individually, collectively and diachronically.","PeriodicalId":84923,"journal":{"name":"International journal of anthropology","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42185204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Vasilyev, T. Puzanova, D. Vasilyev, F. Kurbanova, O. Rudenko, S. Borutskaya, N. Burova, O. Lokhova
The article discusses the possibilities of using various geoarchaeological methods for a burial mound located in the Caspian Lowland. The investigated mound group “Bogomolnye Peski – 1” is a vivid example of a unique monument, since it was originally constructed during the Bronze Age (the first structure) and then completed in the Early Iron Age, and during the Middle Ages, it served as a burial site for nomadic tribes. The reconstruction of the natural environment of the Western Caspian region in the second half of the Holocene, as well as diet composition among the ancient population, are the result of the study of buried soils of different ages under the mound structure, palynological and micromorphological analysis, review of anthropological characteristics of bone remains in the main and inlet burials and analysis of the isotopic composition of bone
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The Yerukulas, a tribal population subsisting traditionally on agriculture, animal husbandry and handicrafts trade, inhabit largely in plains of Southern Indian states specifically, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. The genetic demographic information regarding occupation, economic status, fertility and mortality, age of children etc were collected. The present genetic study on tribal population with moderately high fertility and mortality shows a picture of a growing population. Sex ratio was slightly deviated to the predominance of males. The inbreeding co-efficient for autosomes is 0.0381 and sex chromosomes is 0.0438 among the Yerukula tribe, and the overall inbreeding coefficient is 0.081 which is relatively high due to more number of uncle-niece marriages. Among postnatal deaths, neonatal deaths in non-consanguineous and infantile deaths in consanguineous couples are higher than their counterparts. The index of variability of fertility is higher in non-consanguineous couples and proportion of surviving offspring is higher in consanguineous couples. However, the percent offspring mortality is higher in non- consanguineous couples. Thus, improving socio-economic conditions and creating awareness on medical facilities so as to reduce the fertility and mortality is essential to keep the population growth under control.(76.34%), sensitivity (76.60), specificity (76.09) and 87% area under ROC curve.
{"title":"Consanguineous, Non-Consanguineous, Reproductive Events, Fertility and Mortality Differentials of Yerukula Tribe: an Endogamous Human Population, Andhra Pradesh India","authors":"D. Prakash","doi":"10.14673/IJA2020341062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14673/IJA2020341062","url":null,"abstract":"The Yerukulas, a tribal population subsisting traditionally on agriculture, animal husbandry and handicrafts trade, inhabit largely in plains of Southern Indian states specifically, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. The genetic demographic information regarding occupation, economic status, fertility and mortality, age of children etc were collected. The present genetic study on tribal population with moderately high fertility and mortality shows a picture of a growing population. Sex ratio was slightly deviated to the predominance of males. The inbreeding co-efficient for autosomes is 0.0381 and sex chromosomes is 0.0438 among the Yerukula tribe, and the overall inbreeding coefficient is 0.081 which is relatively high due to more number of uncle-niece marriages. Among postnatal deaths, neonatal deaths in non-consanguineous and infantile deaths in consanguineous couples are higher than their counterparts. The index of variability of fertility is higher in non-consanguineous couples and proportion of surviving offspring is higher in consanguineous couples. However, the percent offspring mortality is higher in non- consanguineous couples. Thus, improving socio-economic conditions and creating awareness on medical facilities so as to reduce the fertility and mortality is essential to keep the population growth under control.(76.34%), sensitivity (76.60), specificity (76.09) and 87% area under ROC curve.","PeriodicalId":84923,"journal":{"name":"International journal of anthropology","volume":"35 1","pages":"175-188"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49424119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
On 16th July 2019, Johnny Clegg left this planet after a long battle with pancreatic cancer, and an amazing “The Final Journey” Tour in Europe, North America and Africa. In the days following his death, there have been many articles and interviews on his life as an anti-apartheid activist, a cross-over artist, the White Zulu or as the quintessential South African. These memories – however accurate and very important in defining Johnny Clegg, his vision and his work – do not give a complete picture. Hence, via an analysis of his lectures, songs and engagement in global challenges, this essay aims at providing an overview of his work as an artist, as an anthropologist, and as an engaged global citizen, in order to describe his Renaissance personality integrating in a very holistic way artistic, cultural, scientific and political interests and knowledge.
{"title":"Johnny Clegg: anthropologist, artist and global citizen","authors":"L. Spini","doi":"10.14673/IJA2020341060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14673/IJA2020341060","url":null,"abstract":"On 16th July 2019, Johnny Clegg left this planet after a long battle with pancreatic cancer, and an amazing “The Final Journey” Tour in Europe, North America and Africa. In the days following his death, there have been many articles and interviews on his life as an anti-apartheid activist, a cross-over artist, the White Zulu or as the quintessential South African. These memories – however accurate and very important in defining Johnny Clegg, his vision and his work – do not give a complete picture. Hence, via an analysis of his lectures, songs and engagement in global challenges, this essay aims at providing an overview of his work as an artist, as an anthropologist, and as an engaged global citizen, in order to describe his Renaissance personality integrating in a very holistic way artistic, cultural, scientific and political interests and knowledge.","PeriodicalId":84923,"journal":{"name":"International journal of anthropology","volume":"35 1","pages":"145-160"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44176444","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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