The anthropology of religion deals with the study of religious institutions with regard to divers... more The anthropology of religion deals with the study of religious institutions with regard to diverse social phenomena. These institutions are then compared with the religious beliefs and various practices across diverse cultures. In fact many anthropologists have done ethnographic research so they could observe themes as ritual, symbols and healing across cultures.
La funzione della letteratura comparata è di fondamentale importanza per esaminare i vari rapport... more La funzione della letteratura comparata è di fondamentale importanza per esaminare i vari rapporti con l'altro e tutto ciò che è diverso. Molti autori europei volevano scoprire questo rapporto con diversi paesi nel mondo. Attraverso il linguaggio di questi autori, noi possiamo capire il grande sentimento che gli accomuna. Molte volte si fa lo sbaglio di distaccare la letteratura dagli avvenimenti che creano una nazione. Non si può ignorare che, molte volte si è visto come attraverso lo strumento della letteratura uno può comprendere molto meglio il modo di pensare di molte nazioni.
Cinema is the place where we as viewers engage in sharing a collective dream. Certainly, horror m... more Cinema is the place where we as viewers engage in sharing a collective dream. Certainly, horror movies enrich us as viewers with the most dream-like of plots. This is because they open a portal into another world where we are allowed to engage with our nightmares. All over time various horror movies show us how normality is endangered by a monster, but the creature who has haunted the screen like no one is undoubtedly the Vampire. According to Ivan Phillips the figure of the Vampire has "drifted and shifted through the pages of newspapers, travel journals, novels, poems, comics, and plays for 300 years, it has haunted cinema and television for almost a hundred, its shadow is creeping into the social, narrative and ludic networks of the digital". 1 The image of the Vampire is constantly present in the virtual and literature culture of the twenty-first century. Although this being moved from its folkloristic origins in which he appeared in works of J.Sheridan Le Fanu, John Polidori and Bram Stoker, the vampire still remains an iconic figure in Western Culture. This personage provides paradoxical fascination as it exists "at the edges of what is deemed normal, acceptable and safe, the vampire embodies the foreign and the unfamiliar". 2 Although, the vampire is often seen as a bringer of death, there are numerous metaphorical meanings and readings of this being. Through
The anthropology of religion deals with the study of religious institutions with regard to divers... more The anthropology of religion deals with the study of religious institutions with regard to diverse social phenomena. These institutions are then compared with the religious beliefs and various practices across diverse cultures. In fact many anthropologists have done ethnographic research so they could observe themes as ritual, symbols and healing across cultures.
La funzione della letteratura comparata è di fondamentale importanza per esaminare i vari rapport... more La funzione della letteratura comparata è di fondamentale importanza per esaminare i vari rapporti con l'altro e tutto ciò che è diverso. Molti autori europei volevano scoprire questo rapporto con diversi paesi nel mondo. Attraverso il linguaggio di questi autori, noi possiamo capire il grande sentimento che gli accomuna. Molte volte si fa lo sbaglio di distaccare la letteratura dagli avvenimenti che creano una nazione. Non si può ignorare che, molte volte si è visto come attraverso lo strumento della letteratura uno può comprendere molto meglio il modo di pensare di molte nazioni.
Cinema is the place where we as viewers engage in sharing a collective dream. Certainly, horror m... more Cinema is the place where we as viewers engage in sharing a collective dream. Certainly, horror movies enrich us as viewers with the most dream-like of plots. This is because they open a portal into another world where we are allowed to engage with our nightmares. All over time various horror movies show us how normality is endangered by a monster, but the creature who has haunted the screen like no one is undoubtedly the Vampire. According to Ivan Phillips the figure of the Vampire has "drifted and shifted through the pages of newspapers, travel journals, novels, poems, comics, and plays for 300 years, it has haunted cinema and television for almost a hundred, its shadow is creeping into the social, narrative and ludic networks of the digital". 1 The image of the Vampire is constantly present in the virtual and literature culture of the twenty-first century. Although this being moved from its folkloristic origins in which he appeared in works of J.Sheridan Le Fanu, John Polidori and Bram Stoker, the vampire still remains an iconic figure in Western Culture. This personage provides paradoxical fascination as it exists "at the edges of what is deemed normal, acceptable and safe, the vampire embodies the foreign and the unfamiliar". 2 Although, the vampire is often seen as a bringer of death, there are numerous metaphorical meanings and readings of this being. Through
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