Cultural Exchange in Northern Italy

2019

Hosted in association with the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics, Monash University and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, the conference was held at the Monash University Centre in Prato, Italy, on 4-7 July 2017. The conference aimed to provide an interdisciplinary platform to identify, discuss and debate those trends and turning-points which characterise advances in society, science and the arts in terms of clashes, connections and encounters. Full conference program (including abstracts) is available to download.

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Archeostorie Journal of Public Archaeology, 2017

This interview takes its title from Daniele Manacorda’s recent work L’Italia agli Italiani (Bari, Edipuglia, 2014), a short but substantial book that asserts the author’s past and present commitment to redesign and bolster the relationship between civil society and cultural heritage. Manacorda’s passion and commitment have made him one of the great protagonists of Italian archaeology today. It is a joy and an honor to have him on Archaeostorie’s Advisory Board.

Modern Italy, 2020

This special issue explores sites of contact, connection and exchange in modern Italy. These can be understood as open sites of interaction and juxtaposition, where people and ideas from across the globe come and go. They are sites shaped by important trajectories of trade or distinctive histories of colonialism, imperialism, or globalisation. When encounters occur in contexts of asymmetrical relations of powercolonisation, modern warfare, even gender relationsany exchange or contact also entails confrontation. In the uneven exchanges that result, language can be used to create or manipulate perceptions that are formed when worlds collide. Yet modern diasporas also have the potential to connect cultures and lead to collaboration and renewal, through the establishment of wider-ranging networks and positive forms of exchange.

This is the English version of the article published by "Etnografia e ricerca qualitativa", issue 2/2014 with the title «Introduzione» to the special section on Nuovi studi etnografici sulle questioni meridionali.

Fusions and contacts through the analysis of archaeological evidences in South-East Sicily in the VIII century B.C. A part from the VIII B.C. a fundamental cultural transformation began within the indigenous sites of eastern Sicily as the effect of Hellenic cultural colonization. The reconstruction of preHellenic indigenous culture is often made through the study and analysis of archaeological material dated back to pre-proto historic period and by comparing this material to historic literary fonts of the following periods but always taking in consideration the relatively low reliability of these due to both the time gap between the facts analysed and their first written reports and the lack of objectivity often reported for this kind of documents. For the present work we thus collected all the published archaeological data about historic changes of indigenous sites in eastern Sicily in order to give a better representation of the transformation processes of these sites and make a comparison between different areas. Anthropological methods have been used in order to assess if the modern concept of culture-contact could be applied to such an ancient historic moment. The majority of the material analysed belonged to the funerary sphere and the cult of the deaths while another small part was related to the everyday life (e.g. cutlery, plates, etc.). The sites geomorphological features and their geographical position have also been considered in the analysis. The period here investigated covers three fundamental historical moments: VIII-VII B.C., before the Greek colonization, which describes the material culture of the indigenous populations of the area; VII-VI B.C. that represents the transition period in which were taking place the first interactions with the Hellenic colonies and finally the V B.C. Where the cultural integration process was already concluded. Our results show that the process of integration of the Hellenic culture with the indigenous one seems to have taken place at different times and through different ways across eastern Sicily often defining a clear geographical pattern.

2023

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