The relevance of Calvino’s anthropological readings, often overlooked by scholars, is particularly evident in his autobiographical project Passaggi obbligati. structure the book, consisting a selection crucial turning points author’s life, modelled on theories presented Arnold Van Gennep Les Rites de passage. Considering ‘La poubelle agréée’ as case study, I will highlight shaping autobiography...

In contemporary Western culture, fatness and singlehood are constructed as requiring change: from fat to thin, single coupled. Makeover shows with a dating theme that focus on both aspects in connection each other have become increasingly widespread, aiming for the makeover of one’s life relationship status through body. I analyze show Fat Chance theoretical context rites passage applying conce...

Using Van Gennep’s theory of Rite Passage as its framework, this article examines the impact Coronavirus (COVID-19) on Chinese culture depicted through death and mourning in Wang Fang’s (penname Fang Fang) recently published Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from a Quarantined City. As part efforts to control outbreak, government took over managing deceased, which triggered heated discussions social medi...

Main line churches are characterised by a life-long relationship with the church and a strong acceptance of the rites of passage (baptism and funerals). What happens – what logic comes into play – when people belong to this kind of church, but at the same time accept a variety of religious products from other providers? In a qualitative study of members of the Church of Sweden, two different se...

Drawing from Van Gennep and Caffee’s conceptualization of liminality, this autoethnographic narrative portrays the author’s rites passage into academia through death her father. These fundamental developmental transitions losses emerged concomitantly within backdrop a pandemic, further cloaking world in grief disequilibrium. Incorporating voice personal as professional, author existential strug...

It is the charge of economic history not only to explain the economic past, but to use it to enrich and develop economic theory (North, 1994). In paleoeconomics, theory plays the additional role of adding veracity of accounts based on sparse evidence through the demonstration of internal consistency. We synthesize pre-historical and historical evidence available from the settlement and moderniz...

Symbolic Representations of the Pendulum Movement (in Polish and East Slavic Folklore Traditional Culture) This article is devoted to symbolic representation pendulum movement, such as rocking, swaying swinging. The research covered folklore, ethnographic linguistic material. analysis aims reach conceptual basis motion developed from physical experience movement related events magical practices...

Male circumcision and marriage are significant cultural practices that mark a critical stage in person’s life many African societies. Many rites of passage exist, intertwined. Marriage like other themes have attracted wide scholarship diverse depths. Such studies underlined, among others, the nature, forms, types even place two initiation society. What, however, has not received adequate attent...