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In the chapter, I show the connection between the ways in which the nineteenth-twentieth century sociocultural anthropologists became interested in the study of human-animal relationships and the dominant conceptions about the relationship between humanity and animality in philosophical and scientific thought of these two centuries. Till the last part of the twentieth century non-human animals were considered by anthropologists mainly as material and/or symbolic resources for the reproduction of humans and their social orders. This view paralleled the dominant vision in Western modern philosophical and scientific thought in which non-human animals were assimilated to mindless machines belonging to ‘nature’ as a separate ontological domain with respect to “culture’ and ‘society’. These ways of conceiving the relationship between humanity and animality were reflected in ethical and political ideas about the treatment of non-human animals, juridically assimilated to things devoid of any subjectivity. By the end of the twentieth century, the so-called ontological turn in anthropology, philosophy and STS have led a strong rethinking of this reified concept of non-human animals. I review some new approaches to the study of relationships between human and non-human animals, among which multispecies ethnography. Nonetheless, still today the relationship these new approaches and the debates on and social movements for animal rights and welfare remain quite tense. I explore the reasons for this tensions and some possibilities, in the near future, to develop a closer dialogue between these new fields of study emerged in sociocultural anthropology, on the one hand, and, on the other, critical animal studies and debates and movements in the field of animal advocacy.

La calligrafia islamica è una scienza nobile perché dà visibilità alla parola rivelata. In questo articolo si presenta il significato teologico dell'arte dello scrivere, la storia della calligrafia islamica , le varianti della scrittura ed il significato simbolico di alcune lettere . Islamic calligraphy is a noble science because it gives visibility to the revealed word. This article presents the theological meaning of the art of writing, the history of Islamic calligraphy, the variants of writing and the symbolic meaning of some letters.

L'articolo esplora l'idea che le pratiche post-fotografiche legate ad instagram occupano uno spazio intermedio tra quello dell'occhio meccanico (che nell'era fotografica tendeva a rappresentare oggettivamente la realtà) e quello della messa in scena del sé nel quale gli hashtag costituiscono i mezzi fondamentali attraverso i quali promuovere la propria immagine sul palcoscenico dei social media. The article explores the idea that post-photographic practices related to instagram occupy an intermediate space between that of the mechanical eye (which in the photographic era tended to objectively represent reality) and that of the staging of the self in which hashtags are the fundamental means by which to promote their image on the social media stage.

Nell’universo assai articolato e fittamente popolato dei visual studies contemporanei , una rubrica di dimensioni ragguardevoli è senz’altro costituita dagli studi dedicati a quei fenomeni che possono essere classificati sotto la categoria degli iconotesti o dei foto-testi, e dall’enumerazione e ricognizione della loro complessa tipologia e genealogia teorica. Il contributo studia la rilevanza della categoria in un testo di W.G. Sebald.

Ciò che viene detto trae il suo significato dal non detto che le parole dette mostrano senza dirlo. Questa complessa relazione semantica viene studiata con l'aiuto di Freud e Wittgenstein.