Ricerc@Sapienza

Migrant families and second generations play a key-role in present European change concerning gender orders. Their efforts whether to adapt themselves to western mentalities and lifestyles or to preserve their own traditions and identities unavoidably overlap and impact on the struggles on opening or closing gender relations, by reintroducing rigid identities and dichotomies in continuously transforming societies, by contrasting the blurring of boundaries, by proposing new meanings and perspectives in conceiving women and men.

This paper analyses the negotiation transformation of Italian food tastes in Korea, focusing on how Koreans perceive Italian food (henceforth ITF), their evaluation criteria, how they adjust them into local taste in relation with the re-creation of glocal identity. It will highlight how the authenticity or the image of ITF and Italianness indicates that its defence is expressed along two lines: criticism of the “Koreanization” of ITF, but also the perception of Italianness in terms of a search for Koreanness in ITF.

Within the more general topic of linguistic representations of identity, the issue of “identity in the repertoire” deserves special attention. Closely related to this subject is the study of the manifold chronological/typological aspects of language contact. Indeed, language contact over time may affect, also in a profound way, the repertoire of every speech community involved, from phonology to lexicon, according to an increasing level of interference.

This paper investigates the dynamics of the relationship between identity and otherness in the ancient world by focusing on an analysis of some epigraphic documents found in a multilingual and multi-ethnic environment

L’indagine narrata in questo lavoro aveva lo scopo di esplorare, attraverso le pratiche di giovani donne musulmane, e la narrazione delle stesse, l’attribuzione dei significati culturali attribuibili al velo, e la traduzione di tali pratiche in dispositivi di display relazionale. Lo svelamento delle identità culturali nelle prassi ordinarie – incluso l’abbigliamento – è infatti un potente punto di accesso nell’esplorazione di fenomeni di mutamento culturale e sociale.

The chapter analyzes the skeletal sample from the archaeological excavation at the Fewet necropolis (Libyan Sahara), dated to the Garamantian times. 33 burials were excavated and the skeletal sample represents one of the most relevant corpus for the study of inhumations and population in the Libyan Sahara, in a span of time from the 5th century BC to the 3rd aD.

At the beginning of the Twentieth century, new cities and new villages were founded in the Agro pontino of southern Lazio, proposing an architecture capable of both interpreting the language of modern movement and to be respectful of the genius loci. The architecture of these newly founded cities, as for other Italian and European centers, was often the expression of authoritarian social and economic models or, in any case, incompatible with a democratic and pluralistic vision of society.

At the beginning of the Twentieth century, new towns and new villages were founded in the Agro pontino of southern Lazio, proposing an architecture capable of both interpreting the language of modern movement and to be respectful of the genius loci. The architecture of these newly founded cities, as for other Italian and European centers, was often the expression of authoritarian social and economic models or, in any case, incompatible with a democratic and pluralistic vision of society.

This essay offers a preliminary study of the cultural translation practices by young Tibetan exilic filmmakers in India, whose films, rather than rejecting the masala formula offered by Bollywood, have tentatively adapted it to the expectations of a Tibetan diasporic audience looking for a cinema capable of attending to the escapist needs of their minds while simultaneously catering to the intimate dreams of their hearts.