Just appeared: EXPRESSION 30
Dear colleagues and friends,
It is a pleasure to offer you a complimentary copy of EXPRESSION 30.
This issue, the fourth one to appear during the Coronavirus pandemic, faces
a
crucial theme, that of identity, which bothers a large percentage of the
human
beings, of societies and of nations. It also concerns students and
scholars, trying
to define the identity of past and present cultures. The selected articles
range in
different directions and should stimulate other contributions on the same
general
topic: the identity of a culture, an age, or a social trend. Five articles
face the
problems of identity of different ages and different nature, in four
different
continents: Africa, America, Asia and Europe.
Amélie Balazut considers the paintings of French Paleolithic caves, looking
at
the problem of human identity in Paleolithic times, seeing the totemic
animal
counterpart of man as a source of identity. How did Paleolithic people
conceive
their images of half human and half animal beings?
Stavros Kiotsekoglou analyzes the meaning of the similarity of two
archeological
sites, one in Greece and the other in Italy, stressing coincidences and
what appears
to be common elements of identity despite the geographical distance:
cultural
identity or pure coincidence?
Jitka Soukopova faces the confrontation between two different cultural
identities,
hunter-gatherers and pastoralists, of a few thousand years ago, in the
oases of
North Africa, when what is now desert was greener. How do their rock
paintings
help defining their cultural identity?
Emmanuel Anati deals with the earliest known urban settlement in the Near
East,
which came into existence in the age of hunter-gatherers, searching for the
identity
of its founders and for the process that led to its birth and development.
What was
the function of a fortified town among clans of hunters?
And Giuseppe Orefici explores the identity of the makers of the
extraordinary
geoglyphs at Nasca, in Peru, their religious beliefs and their social
performances.
What was the function of miles-long cleaned and managed grounds and of the
large size images which are hardly visible from the ground?
The attempts at defining identity will be further considered in forthcoming
issues.
We hope that you will be stimulated by these cases of cultural identity.
Those having something to say on the topic are welcome to participate
in this open sharing of knowledge and ideas.
Expression 30:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lNah2jUbETlfUhfpFImjWgUGwkQpHtYX/view?usp=sharing
Cordial regards and best wishes for the coming festivities
and for a new year free of pandemics!
Emmanuel Anati
(EXPRESSION General Editor)
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