CHILD’S COMPETENCES IN CHRONIC ILLNESS: Embodying illness and managing the uncertainty

Entering a career of a person having a chronic illness implies the management of several situations of uncertainty. Through two pilot ethnographic researches carried on in Northern Italy and France among children affecte...

BOOK REVIEWS AND REPORTS: Conference report: Deontyka, eidetyka, konstytutywność, Reinach Dwie konferencje, Mediolan 12–14 maja 2014 roku

THE IDEA OF MAN AND DIVINITY IN ANTIQUITY PART II: Alexander the Great in the Persian legends: from the Pseudo-Callisthenes’s Greek Romance about Alexander of Macedon to the Sikandar of Firdousi’s Shah-Nameh

The main aim of my study is to analyse the origins and evolution of Alexander’s legendin the Islamic world and especially in the Persian speaking realms. My starting point isthe Greek Alexander Romance that was most prob...

MISCELLANEA Human in the Nietzschean Vision of Greek Mythology and Religion

Nietzsche’s work came from a fascination with Greek culture, and despite its many philosophicaltransformations, this culture remained very important to him. Heraclitus was oneof the philosophers, who was invariably admir...

KULTURY PRZESZŁOŚCI: Old Games–New Meanings? Understanding Modern Gun Violence in the Light of Nineteenth Century Habits

Cultural practices are part of everyday life. This paper analyzes the link between violenceand cultural practice. Via an analytical focus on social practices and interaction theory itargues that cultural patterns of inte...