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International audience; En publiant, à titre posthume, ce livre de Serenella De Natale édité par Bruno D’Agostino et Patrizia Gastaldi, le Centre Jean Bérard et le Dipartimento di Scienze del Patrimonio Culturale dell’Università di Salerne souhaitent rendre hommage à la passion et aux compétences d’une archéologue de terrain et d’une chercheuse qui a fortement contribué à la connaissance de l’Âge du Fer en Campanie. Ce volume sur les tombes de la propriété Colucci correspond au second volet des recherches que Serenella De Natale avait consacrées à la nécropole de Pontecagnano. C’est dans le même esprit qu’a été choisie comme couverture la photo des portes d’une maison de Nairn qu’elle avait prise en 1989 en Écosse.; Ai giorni nostri Pontecagnano è poco più di un sobborgo industriale che con qualche fatica si affaccia sul golfo di Salerno. La vicinanza alla città ne scoraggia la crescita; il fiume Picentino, che lambiva a NW l'insediamento antico facilitando lo scambio con le boscose pendici appenniniche, si riconosce appena per la poca acqua che scorre in un vasto alveo asciutto, e scomparse sono anche le due lagune che a SW consentivano il riparo più favorevole per le navi antiche.In questo quadro è difficile riconquistare il quadro naturale di quello che fu uno dei più grandi abitati della costa Tirrenica, nei primi secoli dell'ultimo millennio a.C. : il Picentino, in parte navigabile, collegava la costa ai villaggi indigeni situati sulle retrostanti colline, mentre un guado permetteva di risalire verso Nord, raggiungendo la pianura campana: l'approdo del Picentino trovava una utile alternativa nelle due lagune situate dietro la duna costiera, che offrivano un riparo nascosto ai pirati e alle navi che risalivano le coste della penisola venendo dall'Egeo e dal Vicino Oriente.Per un paradosso tipico dell'archeologia protostorica la vita dell'abitato antico si conosce attraverso l'indagine dei suoi sepolcreti. Sappiamo così che le navi partite dalla Grecia, per riallacciare i rapporti con il Tirreno interrottisi con la distruzione dei palazzi micenei, trovavano a Pontecagnano uno scalo priviliegiato: lo dimostrano le coppe per il vino prodotte nella lontana Eubea, che tra la fine del IX e i primi anni dell'VIII sec. i capitani delle navi offrivano, colmi di vino, ai capi della comunità locale trasmettendo loro la cerimonia del simposio. In questo modo essi si aprivano le porte verso le coste campane, e l'Etruria. Insieme ad essi veleggiavano le navi fenicie cariche di ornamenti e oggetti di lusso, graditi alle nascenti aristocrazie locali. Quale tramite migliore per l'Etruria, ricca di metalli, degli abitanti di Pontecagnano, anch'essi etruschi trapiantati a Sud tra le genti italiche della Valle del Sarno e della Penisola Sorrentina?Lo scavo che qui si presenta, condotto da una giovane e già valente archeologa, Serenella de Natale, preziosa collaboratrice dell'Università Orientale e del Centre Jean Bérard, ha permesso di riconoscere, attraverso una tecnica raffinata e una esauriente documentazione, le tombe di quella élite di Etruschi immigrati che, come capita alle minoranze in terra straniera, erano la punta più avanzata dello sviluppo socio-culturale del basso Tirreno. La loro immagine doveva emergere viva a chi seguiva la strada antica che attraversava la necropoli, attraverso le vistose coperture delle tombe che avevano l'aspetto di piattaforme circolari di tufo grigio. L'esame degli oggetti che accompagnavano i defunti nell'estrema dimora, con l'intreccio del vasellame indigeno con le ceramiche greche e gli ornamenti orientali, restituiscono l'immagine della complessità di questo singolare sito protostorico, che fu luogo d'incontro e di stimolo tra diverse culture.

International audience; Il primo popolamento del continente europeo è spesso interpretato come risultato di più ondate migratorie provenienti dall’Africa, attraverso il Vicino-Oriente e l’Europa Centrale. Le prime due sarebbero caratterizzate dalla insorgenza di uno strumento specifico: su scheggia per la prima (1.4 Ma), e bifacciale per la seconda (0.7 Ma). In questo modello interpretativo, noto in letteratura come out of Africa, l’Italia e la Spagna vengono considerate come zone periferiche, o cul-de-sac, ai confini dell’Europa. Tuttavia, è precisamente in queste zone che ritroviamo le più antiche evidenze mentre l’area intermedia, tra Vicino Oriente e Est della Francia, costituisce allo stato attuale delle ricerche un vuoto geografico di informazioni (Rocca, 2013, in press). In effetti, i primi siti in Europa sono quasi tutti localizzati in aree meridionali che affacciano sul Mediteranno (de Lumley et al. 1988, 2009; Peretto et al., 1998; Carbonnel et al., 1999; Aguirre & Carbonell, 2001; Arzarello et al., 2006; Arzarello & Peretto 2010; Toro-Moyano et al. 2011), cosi come le prime evidenze di bifacciali (Piperno et al. 1999; Barsky & de Lumley, 2010; Abruzzese et al., in press; Moncel et al., in press; Mosquera et al., in press).Questo paradosso è particolarmente evidente nella penisola italiana, area considerata per la sua conformazione e per la sua posizione tra le più periferiche, ma dove emergono gran parte delle innovazioni tecniche del Paleolitico inferiore e dove è rappresentata tutta la diversità dei sistemi tecnici di questo periodo. Questi dati spingono ad interrogarsi sul ruolo che ha avuto durante il primo popolamento dell’Europa. Si tratta di una regione d’innovazione, una zona di rifugio o di passaggio, di circolazione dei gruppi umani e/o delle idee? Come possiamo considerare, alla luce del record archeologico presente in Italia, le altre ipotesi di popolamento dell’Europa (Villa, 2001; Nicoud 2013; Gallotti, in press; Rocca et al. in press; Sharon & Barsky, in press)?Nel tentativo di rispondere a queste domande si analizzeranno, attraverso un approccio tecnologico e tecno-genetico (Boëda 2013), le industrie litiche provenienti da tre siti coevi e che restituiscono un’istantanea dell’Italia di 500 mila anni fa: Cimitero di Atella in Basilicata (Borzatti et al. 1997; Abruzzese et al., in press), Ficoncella nel Lazio (Aureli et al. 2012, 2015, in press) e Valle Giumentina in Abruzzo (Nicoud et al. 2015, in press). Tutta la variabilità tecnica presente durante il Paleolitico inferiore europeo è rappresentata in questi insiemi litici: una concezione “bifacciale” dello strumento nei siti del Cimitero di Atella e di Valle Giumentina, piccoli strumenti ritoccati rinvenuti sempre nel sito del Cimitero di Atella e in quello di Ficoncella e produzioni di schegge in tutti e tre i siti.Il confronto tra queste industrie ci permetterà di affrontare la problematica legata alla definizione stessa delle entità tecno-culturali descritte fino ad oggi per il Paleolitico inferiore in Italia (Palma di Cesnola 2001; Grifoni & Tozzi 2006), cercando di proporre nuove ipotesi sul popolamento del Circum Mediterraneo durante questo periodo.

International audience; This papers examines Crossing the River by Caryl Phillips as a polyphonie nove!, in which many master narratives about slavery are questioned. Two key issues are introduced: on the one hand the slave ship as afrotrope and on the other hand the concept of postmemory expanded from the memories of Holocaust survivors to include the children of the African diaspora. The fragmented non chronological sequence of events, spaced in time and geographical setting, framed by a prologue and an epilogue, mirrors the writer's intention in probing the role of the British slave trade. The four intertwined sections are analysed considering the marginal nature of the characters, the use of a range of narrative genres, and the complex relationships between master/slave in connection to Christianity, naming, family ties. Phillips shows how the revisited historical past does not produce a grand narrative, but the fragmentation of tales and voices, defined by the English literary and cultural tradition, yet striving to find new ways of expressing feelings and experiences in a language, which, jus! because it challenges old stable patterns has now become a distinctive way of storytelling.

International audience; En 2005, lors de la fouille d’un monument funéraire, situé au nord de la Porte Médiane des fortifications septentrionales de la ville de Cumes, des restes de tissus ont été mis au jour. Ce petit tombeau - MSL37024 - comportait une chambre hypogée renfermant trois urnes cinéraires. Sous le fronton, l’inscription gravée sur un bloc de tuf gris mentionne le nom de trois affranchis. L’ensemble des données permet de dater le contexte de la deuxième moitié du Ier siècle av. J.-C. Le tissu pourrait correspondre à un linge ou un sac contenant les os brûlés des défunts.

International audience; En 2005, lors de la fouille d’un monument funéraire, situé au nord de la Porte Médiane des fortifications septentrionales de la ville de Cumes, des restes de tissus ont été mis au jour. Ce petit tombeau - MSL37024 - comportait une chambre hypogée renfermant trois urnes cinéraires. Sous le fronton, l’inscription gravée sur un bloc de tuf gris mentionne le nom de trois affranchis. L’ensemble des données permet de dater le contexte de la deuxième moitié du Ier siècle av. J.-C. Le tissu pourrait correspondre à un linge ou un sac contenant les os brûlés des défunts.

International audience; Oreopithecus bambolii, a large-bodied fossil ape, lived in the Tusco-Sardinian archipelago during the Late Miocene, until ca. 6.7 Ma. Its dentition, an apparent blend of hominoid and cercopithecoid-like features, has been a matter of discussion since its first description, in 1872. While the height and sharpness of its molar cusps recall some Cercopithecidae, Oreopithecus is currently considered by many as more likely related to dryopithecines. Here, we use microtomographic-based quantitative imaging and histological evidence to link outer and inner tooth structural morphology with enamel development in Oreopithecus permanent teeth. The material consists of 14 teeth/crowns from the sites of Baccinello and Casteani, in Tuscany, and Fiume Santo, in Sardinia. In particular, we add to the record of 2–3D of molar enamel thickness topographic variation and enamel-dentine junction morphology, and using high-resolution replicas of the outer crown and ground sections, comparatively assess molar growth trajectory (crown formation times and enamel extension rates). Our results shed new light on dental development of this “enigmatic anthropoid” and provide additional evidence concerning the still debated question of its evolutionary history.; Oreopithecus bambolii est un grand singe fossile qui a vécu dans l’archipel tusco-sarde durant le Miocène tardif, jusqu’à il y a environ 6,7 Ma. Sa denture, un mélange apparent de caractéristiques similaires à celles des hominoïdes et des cercopithécoïdes, a été sujet à discussions depuis sa première description en 1872. Tandis que la hauteur et l’aspect saillant des cuspides des molaires rappellent ceux de certains Cercopithecidae, Oreopithecus est actuellement considéré par beaucoup comme étant très probablement lié aux dryopithécinés. Nous exploitons ici des données quantitatives basées sur l’imagerie microtomographique et histologique pour relier la morphologie structurale externe et interne des dents permanentes avec le développement de l’émail chez Oreopithecus. Le matériel comprend 14 dents/couronnes provenant des sites de Baccinello et Casteani, en Toscane, et de Fiume Santo, en Sardaigne. Plus précisément, nous combinons au registre 2–3D des variations topographiques de l’épaisseur de l’émail et de la morphologie de la jonction émail-dentine des molaires, des moulages haute résolution de la surface externe de la couronne et des sections histologiques, et nous estimons comparativement la trajectoire de croissance des molaires (temps de formation de la couronne et taux d’extension de l’émail). Nos résultats apportent un nouvel éclairage sur le développement dentaire de cet « anthropoïde énigmatique » et fournissent des informations supplémentaires concernant la question toujours débattue de son histoire évolutive.

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International audience; The second season of archaeological study of the Dûmat al-Jandal oasis (Saudi Arabia) by the Joint Saudi-Italian-French Archaeological Project took place from October 7th to November 13th, 2011. Results obtained this year were signi cant, in particular the discovery of several Neolithic sites to the south of Dûma, that of a Nabatean ‘triclinium’ and the base of a presumably ‘Roman’ tower on the Western sector’s promontory. These discoveries lead one to consider the setting up of long-term collaborations with specialists from a number of fields (Prehistorian, pottery experts specializing in classical periods, archaeo-botanists, etc...) and induce new thoughts on the place of Nabatean and Roman culture in the region. They also enable one to consider the continuation of Saudi-Italian-French collaboration and future research, in an atmosphere of confidence and sharing.

By taking the 2014 Johannesburg edition of DISCOP, the largest film and television content market in Africa, as its ethnographic starting point, this essay critically discusses the position of Africa in contemporary film and media studies. It argues that, if the marginal position to which studies of African media have historically been relegated within film and media studies curricula and conferences around the world has never been justified or justifiable, today, in light of the transformations that have taken place in media sectors worldwide over the past two decades, this marginality seems even more striking and difficult to accept. In fact, paraphrasing the provocative argument that Jean and John Comaroff propose in their recent book Theory from the South: Or, How Euro-America Is Evolving Toward Africa , it is possible to say that to look at media from the South is today a necessary move to interpret the way media production and dissemination are transforming worldwide. These very transformations tend to manifest themselves first, and with their sharpest and most immediate consequences, in the South, for, as the Comaroffs would have it, “contemporary world-historical processes are disrupting received geographies of core and periphery, relocating southward—and, of course, eastward as well—some of the most innovative and energetic modes of producing value.” This invites scholars to try to make sense of the world from these same vantage points—that is, it invites us to study media from the south as a way to make sense of wider transformations taking place the world over.

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International audience; Claude Gouffé (1926-2013) a créé la chaire de langue haoussa à l'Ecole nationale des langues orientales vivantes, devenue depuis INALCO. Il a mené des recherches sur cette langue au Niger. Membre du GLECS.

International audience; L’idea di questo Convegno viene da lontano: ognuna delle istituzioni che lo hanno organizzato ha accumulato infatti un patrimonio di riflessioni su questo tema: per il Centre Jean Bérard questo precede la sua stessa nascita, trovando la sua origine in Rhégion et Zankle, il libro di un maestro di cui in quest’occasione più che mai abbiamo sentito la mancanza; seguirono poi le due Contributions à l’étude de la société et de la colonisation eubéennes, del 1975 e del 1981; per l’Università di Edinburgo basti pensare alla lungae fruttuosa consuetudine di D. Ridgway con Pithekoussaie con il suo scopritore, G. Buchner. Grazie alla generosità degli amici Greci attivi nelle Soprintendenzee nelle Università, il volume presenta scavi inediti, ο noti ancora soltanto attraverso relazioni preliminari. Lo stesso vale per lo scavo della nuova “capanna ovale” di Punta Chiarito a Pithekoussai. Ci si perdoni l’immodestia se diciamo che questi dati, da soli, giustificherebbero la soddisfazione degli organizzatori. Ma un altro aspetto ci premeva,e fu rammentato nel momento in cui ebbero inizio i lavori del Convegno,e riguardava in particolare i nuovi rinvenimenti della Calcidica.

International audience; This study presents the results of an archaeometrical investigation of Bronze Age vitreous materials from the archaeological site of Punta di Zambrone (Calabria, southern Italy). The analyses of a set of samples (9 faience beads, 1 glassy bead) from approximately 1200 BCE (Recent Bronze Age) were carried out with an environmental scanning electron microscope (ESEM) and LA-ICPMS (for the glassy bead) following a non-destructive protocol. Only very small chips of faience were sampled for X-ray powder diffraction (XRPD) and preparation of thin sections for ESEM analysis. The glassy bead is an opaque light-blue silica-soda-lime type with an uncommon chemical composition, comparable to some coeval Italian and Mycenaean glassy faience artefacts. These are called LMLK (low magnesium low potassium) glassy faience, but the flux used for their production has not yet been identified. The trace-element analysis allows exclusion of a Mesopotamian or Egyptian provenance for this sample, suggesting it was produced with rather impure raw materials. The nine faience beads have suffered from extensive weathering. The microstructural examinations carried out with the ESEM enabled definition of three different groups: (1) light beads consisting almost entirely of quartz crystals without any original interparticle glass, which could be due to the heavy weathering; (2) dark beads with a high content of manganese and iron oxide and scarce presence of interparticle glass in the body, suggesting the original presence of Mn/Fe-rich interparticle glass; this presence indicates that a glazing mixture containing alkalis and colorants was mixed with quartz, therefore the efflorescence method could have been used for glazing, in combination with either cementation or application glazing (hybrid glazing methods); and (3) one green sample exhibiting an heterogeneous body rich in Mg, K, Ti, and Fe but not containing Mn. The XRPD analysis of a faience bead of group 1 confirmed the exclusive presence of quartz, whereas for group 2, an additional small peak compatible with Mn oxide (Possibly hausmannite) was observed. Considering the colorant used for the dark beads, the Zambrone faience beads can be compared to Mesopotamian and Minoan faience beads. They belong to a type widespread in north-central Italy between the Middle and Late Bronze Age, and in southern Italy between the Early and Late Bronze Age. The same type of faience is found in the Aegean from the middle of the 3rd millennium BCE to the 12th century BCE.

International audience; En 2014, la campagne de fouille archéologique de la nécropole monumentale romaine de Cumes, conduite par l'équipe du Centre Jean Bérard (USR 3133, CNRS-EFR) a permis de dégager, à proximité d'une des portes de la ville, une construction d'époque funéraire. A l'intérieur les peintures funéraires encore en place en zone inférieure, présentent une composition à compartiments et inter-compartiments typique des décors domestiques du IVe style pompéien.

The aim of this paper is to compare speech and co-speech gestures observed during a narrative retelling task in five- and ten-year-old children from three different linguistic groups, French, American, and Italian, in order to better understand the role of age and language in the development of multimodal monologue discourse abilities. We asked 98 five- and ten-year-old children to narrate a short, wordless cartoon. Results showed a common developmental trend as well as linguistic and gesture differences between the three language groups. In all three languages, older children were found to give more detailed narratives, to insert more comments, and to gesture more and use different gestures – specifically gestures that contribute to the narrative structure – than their younger counterparts. Taken together, these findings allow a tentative model of multimodal narrative development in which major changes in later language acquisition occur despite language and culture differences.

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International audience; 2010 Report of the Saudi-Italian-French Archaeological Project at Dûmat al-Jandal (Saudi Arabia); Rapport de la Mission archéologique 2010 de Dûmat al-Jandal (Arabie Saoudite)

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p. 265-270.; International audience; The recent archaeological excavations performed by the Center Jean Bérard team (USR 3133 CNRS-EFR) in the Roman monumental necropolis of Cuma (Southern Italy), brought to light, along an important road connecting the city of Cuma to Capua, a burial chamber of the 2nd century AD. Inside this tomb, there is an original model of a pit grave covered by fresco decorations, with stylized motives representing flowers, plants and birds.

International audience; In project were chosen the most suitable development model of Kharkov subway network (Ukraine). In order to archive this goal in the first place were established topological morphology on the level of configuration complexity and quantitative evaluation of quality of subway networks spatial composition. Secondly, were assumed four rational, provisional long-term subway development models in accordance with current and perspective subway network of Kharkov and urban development forecast. Result of analyzing subway lines maps of major cities in 20 countries of the world confirmed that it is possible to classify by type of schemes: linear, circular, X-shaped, rectangular, radiated, radiated and circular, radiated and chorded, combined. Results of this classification are present radiation type and economic indicators were helpful to devise 4 models of general plans of subway lines development. In the result by comparing models by feasibility indicators were chosen "combined model" as a long-term development model of Kharkov subway. Data derived in the present study and practical study of innovation at the time of pre-project analysis& planning of proposed model will attract interest in the following major cases: Firstly, elaborated types of schemes will be useful for all cities of the world at any stage of development to determined future schemes of subway lines development. Secondly, research development long-term provisional plan of Kharkov subway and usefulness as a result of the analysis for other cities. Project implementation remains as question due to Kharkiv City Subway have a debt of record-breaking of eighty million U.S. dollars. Index Terms-Kharkiv City Subway Network development simulation, general plan of subway lines development, subway maps topology, subway networks rating, subway network analysis, pedestrian accessibility, feasibility indicators, subway lines evolution factors.

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The Buia Homo site, also known as Wadi Aalad, is an East African paleoanthropological site near the village of Buia that, due to its very rich yield from the late Early Pleistocene, has been intensively investigated since 1994. In this paper, which reports on the finds of the 2010–2011 excavations, we include new fossil evidence on previously identified taxa (i.e., reptiles), as well as the very first description of the small mammal, fish and bird remains discovered. In particular, this study documents the discovery of the first African fossil of the genus Burhinus (Aves, Charadriiformes) and of the first rodent from the site. This latter is identified as a thryonomyid rodent (cane rat), a relatively common taxon in African paleoanthropological faunal assemblages. On the whole, the new occurrences documented within the Buia vertebrate assemblage confirm the occurrence of taxa characterized by strong water dependence. The paleoenvironmental characteristics of the fauna are confirmed as fully compatible with the evidence obtained through sedimentology and facies analysis, documenting the sedimentary evolution of fluvio-deltaic and lacustrine systems.

Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, the Nigerian video industry has been the subject of a large number of documentary films and festival retrospectives around the world. Their objective was, in most of the cases, introducing the Nigerian video phenomenon to non-African audiences. As much of the literature on the video industry has evidenced, Nollywood’s specific modes of operation made the Nigerian video industry almost incommensurable to other experiences of filmmaking in the world. As a consequence, during its first decade of existence the Nigerian video phenomenon remained practically “invisible” to non-African audiences. The retrospectives and documentaries that appeared since the early 2000s had the objective of filling this gap and making Nollywood visible within the global cinematic arena. However, the representation of the video phenomenon that these “metacultural” constructions (Urban) circulated have participated in creating a rigid (and in some cases stereotypical) definition of Nollywood, which has had a specific role in defining the position of the Nigerian video industry in the global cinematic landscape. In this article, I analyze these discursive constructions in order to understand and interpret the representation of the video phenomenon that they have produced. As I will argue, the representation of Nollywood that they circulated can be considered as the result of a specific form of “postcolonial exotic” (Huggan), one in which the fascination for non-Western declinations of modernity takes the place of the fascination for the archaic, the traditional, and the tribal. As I will show in the last section of this essay, in reaction to this kind of representation a number of directors and producers moved toward new economic and narrative strategies. By doing this they aim at moving Nollywood away from the marginal position in which the “postcolonial-exotic” discourse implicit in these representations has positioned it.

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Ouvrage bilingue anglais-arabe / English and arabic wide audience book; International audience; History and archaeology of the Jawf Region, North Saudi Arabia, by the Saudi-Italian-French Archaeological Project at Dûmat al-Jandal

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International audience; This year AAMAS conference introduced a perspective track for “papers that analyze in some way the agent research community”. The aim of this track is to understand what the trends are in agent research and foresee possible future directions. Instead of looking at where the agent communityis going in an emergent way analyzing numerical trends, with this article we want to suggest where agent research could go but is not yet going. We are of the opinion that in the agent research community most of the current trends originate from the translation of particular concepts – mostly from analytic philosophy – which are only a particular western way to look at philosophy and agents. With this article we want to suggest that other paths originating from philosophy could be taken into account in order to create different directions in agent design.

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The purpose of this paper is to examine the travel as a way of identity reconstruction and essential feature of Sephardic identity through the analysis of the documentary film by Ruth Behar, Adio Kerida (2002). The anthropologist reconstructs her own identity and of the whole Cuban Sephardic community through the testimonies collected in her travels. From Behar path emerges a new essential feature of the Sephardic identity: the need to travel through several homelands not recognizing any place as home., Nel presente lavoro s’intende esaminare il viaggio come percorso di ricostruzione identitaria e caratteristica essenziale dell’identità sefardita attraverso l’analisi del documentario di Ruth Behar, Adio Kerida (2002). L’antropologa ricostruisce, tramite le testimonianze raccolte nei suoi viaggi, la propria identità e quella dell’intera comunità sefardita cubana. Dal percorso della Behar emerge un nuovo tratto essenziale dell’identità sefardita: il viaggiare, espresso dalla necessità di muoversi continuamente attraverso molteplici madri-patrie senza mai riconoscere un luogo come casa.

International audience; Catalogo della mostra (Milano, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, dicembre 2012 - marzo 2013)

International audience; The purpose of this article is to describe two different patterns of contact-induced change in a bedouin dialect spoken in western Sudan. More to the point, the study describes the social grounds and structural outcomes of dialect mixing and dialect levelling in the Baggara dialect of Kordofan. In my perspective, the notion of "dialect mixing" refers to the concurrence of structural traits of different dialects in contact and to the affirmation of newmixed features among speakers of a given dialect. On the other hand, the process of "dialect levelling" describes a synchronic change in which themost striking traits of socially marginal dialects are variably eliminated be-cause of the influence of a local prestigious norm.

International audience; The purpose of this paper is to examine the travel as a way of identity reconstruction and essential feature of Sephardic identity through the analysis of the documentary film by Ruth Behar, Adio Kerida (2002). The anthropologist reconstructs her own identity and of the whole Cuban Sephardic community through the testimonies collected in her travels. From Behar path emerges a new essential feature of the Sephardic identity: the need to travel through several homelands not recognizing any place as home.

International audience; Leonardo da Vinci non ha scritto trattati politici, non ha elaborato astratte teorie sul governo, non ha dato vita a complesse speculazioni sui poteri. Eppure lo straordinario interesse per la natura, che Leonardo condivide con la sua epoca, la necessità di comprendere le relazioni tra i fenomeni, tra il macrocosmo che è l'ambiente e il mondo e il microcosmo che è l'uomo, implicano un'antropologia che produce anche lessici e idee politiche. Peraltro Leonardo conosce molto bene la politica, ne ha compresi i ritmi, le dinamiche costruttive e distruttive, le tecniche, che sono vere e proprie arti. L'ha osservata nei due più importanti laboratori politici della sua generazione: la repubblica di Firenze, per la quale ha lavorato intensamente, che in quegli anni è il polo ideologico dell'autogoverno democratico, e la corte della Milano signorile e principesca di quel Ludovico il Moro del quale Leonardo ricorderà il fallimento finale: «Il duca perso lo stato e la roba e la libertà e nessuna sua opera si finì per lui». Seguendo questa pista metodologica molto interessante, Marco Versiero, ricercatore all'Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane di Napoli e all'Università L'Orientale, ha condotto una ricerca importante sulla sostanza politica dell'antropologia di Leonardo, basandosi sui vari testi scritti, i cui frammenti sono riportati in antologia alla fine di ogni capitolo, ma presentando anche un inedito catalogo ragionato delle allegorie politiche di Leonardo.

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International audience; In the last 15 years World Wide Web has changed the nature of work and social relationships and it is also impacting another important field such as education. On the one hand, the web applications are bringing a lot of easiness for both students and teachers because they provide new teaching and learning resources. On the other one, the spread of distance education is also playing a crucial role in dismantling the traditional teaching praxis and redefining the teacher-student interaction. In this paper we focus on the way Polish students, Italian teachers and peer tutors of interact in a blended course of Italian.

International audience; Restitution de la décoration de la Protocasa del Granduca Michele (maison de IIe s. av. J.-C. trouvée en dessous de la Casa del Granduca Michele), partant de l’étude des peintures et des pavements trouvés sur place ou en fragments dans le remblai qui a couvert la demeure, à l'occasion d'une restructuration de la maison au début du Ier s. av. J.-C.

International audience; Entre los intérpretes contemporáneos de música sefardí más famosos a nivel internacional destaca Yasmin Levy. Su música, que incorpora elementos de flamenco y jazz a la tradición judeoespañola, ha contribuido enormemente a la difusión de la cultura y del idioma sefardí, despertando interés entre los jóvenes y generando nuevas dinámicas identitarias. Objetivo de este trabajo es definir qué es hoy la tradición musical sefardí, entender qué lugar ocupan dentro de la misma las composiciones híbridas de Yasmin Levy, y analizar los contenidos identitarios presentes en sus letras.

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Publication disponible online https://www.peintureantique.org/aipma11-fr; International audience; In 2008, the team of the Jean Bérard Centre (USR3133-CNRS-EFR) excavated a chambered tomb along the Domitian Way which crosses the Roman necropolis located to the north of the city. On the plaster of the walls of the funerary monument dated to the Severan period, there is a decoration of flowers on a white background.; En 2008, l'équipe du centre Jean Bérard (USR3133-CNRS-EFR) a dégagé une tombe à chambre le long de la voie Domitienne qui traverse la nécropole romaine située au nord de la ville. Sur l'enduit des murs du monument funéraire daté de l'époque sévérienne se trouve un décor de fleurs sur fond blanc.

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International audience; Reconstruction de la structure et de la décoration de la Casa del Granduca Michele de Pompéi, au cours de ses différentes phases de vie, sur la base des données acquises grâce aux fouilles menées jentre 2003 et 2007.; Ricostruzione della struttura e della decorazione della Casa del Granduca Michele di Pompei, nel corso delle diverse fasi edilizie, sulla base dei dati ottenuti dalle campagne di scavo eseguite tra il 2003 e il 2007.

International audience; Catalogue of the exhibition (Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, june-september 2010)