In questa tesi viene proposta una dettagliata analisi del testo del libro The Emperor of Ice-Cream di Dan Gunn, pubblicato da Seagull Books nel 2014. La tesi comprende anche la traduzione di passi dell'opera, scelti per mettere in evidenza alcune particolarità dello stile dell'autore. Il primo capitolo comprende una descrizione dettagliata della trama del romanzo, una parte sulla figura dell'autore Dan Gunn (traduttore, scrittore e critico letterario fra i massimi studiosi di Samuel Beckett) e un paragrafo dedicato alla ricezione del romanzo con l'analisi delle recensioni uscite sulla stampa inglese. Il secondo capitolo si occupa dell'analisi narratologica del testo facendo riferimento ai modelli elaborati da Gérard Genette nel libro Figure III: Discorso del racconto. Il capitolo consiste di un'analisi del discorso del racconto, di una descrizione dettagliata dei personaggi e delle loro relazioni. Nella seconda parte del capitolo sono inoltre individuati e analizzati i temi principali e gli oggetti-simbolo del romanzo. Il terzo capitolo è dedicato alla relazione che la storia dei fratelli italo-scozzesi, i protagonisti del romanzo, intreccia con la macrostoria politica dell'Europa del ventennio fascista e della seconda guerra mondiale. Viene anzitutto descritto il genere del romanzo storico (a cui appartiene il libro). Quindi si prende in esame il contesto storico generale in cui è ambientata la vicenda, prestando attenzione alla situazione degli immigrati italiani in Scozia, al loro rapporto con il fascismo, alla loro condizione durante la seconda guerra mondiale e al tragico affondamento dell'Arandora Star, su cui erano imbarcati centinaia di italiani residenti nel Regno Unito, imprigionati e diretti ai campi di internamento oltre Oceano all'inizio del conflitto. Il quarto capitolo è dedicato a un breve studio dello stile dell'autore, anche attraverso la traduzione di alcuni passi problematici, dai quali emerge la particolare capacità dell'autore di far convivere in modo molto efficace diverse lingue e dialetti, diversi registri e diversi generi letterari.
AbstractMusical instruments provide material evidence to study the diversity and technical innovation of music in space and time. We employed a cultural evolutionary perspective to analyse organological data and their relation to language groups and population history in South America, a unique and complex geographic area for human evolution. The ethnological and archaeological native musical instrument record, documented in three newly assembled continental databases, reveals exceptionally high diversity of wind instruments. We explored similarities in the collection of instruments for each population, considering geographic patterns and focusing on groupings associated with language families. A network analysis of panpipe organological features illustrates four regional/cultural clusters: two in the Tropical Forest and two in the Andes. Twenty-five percent of the instruments in the standard organological classification are present in the archaeological, but not in the ethnographic record, suggesting extinction events. Most recent extinctions can be traced back to European contact, causing a reduction in indigenous cultural diversity.
There are many unanswered questions about the population history of the Central and South Central Andes, particularly regarding the impact of large-scale societies, such as the Moche, Wari, Tiwanaku, and Inca. We assembled genome-wide data on 89 individuals dating from ~9000-500 years ago (BP), with a particular focus on the period of the rise and fall of state societies. Today's genetic structure began to develop by 5800 BP, followed by bi-directional gene flow between the North and South Highlands, and between the Highlands and Coast. We detect minimal admixture among neighboring groups between ~2000-500 BP, although we do detect cosmopolitanism (people of diverse ancestries living side-by-side) in the heartlands of the Tiwanaku and Inca polities. We also reveal cases of long-range mobility connecting the Andes to Argentina, and the Northwest Andes to the Amazon Basin.
There are many unanswered questions about the population history of the Central and South Central Andes, particularly regarding the impact of large-scale societies, such as the Moche, Wari, Tiwanaku, and Inca. We assembled genome-wide data on 89 individuals dating from ∼9,000-500 years ago (BP), with a particular focus on the period of the rise and fall of state societies. Today's genetic structure began to develop by 5,800 BP, followed by bi-directional gene flow between the North and South Highlands, and between the Highlands and Coast. We detect minimal admixture among neighboring groups between ∼2,000–500 BP, although we do detect cosmopolitanism (people of diverse ancestries living side-by-side) in the heartlands of the Tiwanaku and Inca polities. We also highlight cases of long-range mobility connecting the Andes to Argentina and the Northwest Andes to the Amazon Basin. 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There are many unanswered questions about the population history of the Central and South Central Andes, particularly regarding the impact of large-scale societies, such as the Moche, Wari, Tiwanaku, and Inca. We assembled genome-wide data on 89 individuals dating from ∼9,000-500 years ago (BP), with a particular focus on the period of the rise and fall of state societies. Today's genetic structure began to develop by 5,800 BP, followed by bi-directional gene flow between the North and South Highlands, and between the Highlands and Coast. We detect minimal admixture among neighboring groups between ∼2,000–500 BP, although we do detect cosmopolitanism (people of diverse ancestries living side-by-side) in the heartlands of the Tiwanaku and Inca polities. We also highlight cases of long-range mobility connecting the Andes to Argentina and the Northwest Andes to the Amazon Basin. VIDEO ABSTRACT:
There are many unanswered questions about the population history of the Central and South Central Andes, particularly regarding the impact of large-scale societies, such as the Moche, Wari, Tiwanaku, and Inca. We assembled genome-wide data on 89 individuals dating from ∼9,000-500 years ago (BP), with a particular focus on the period of the rise and fall of state societies. Today's genetic structure began to develop by 5,800 BP, followed by bi-directional gene flow between the North and South Highlands, and between the Highlands and Coast. We detect minimal admixture among neighboring groups between ∼2,000-500 BP, although we do detect cosmopolitanism (people of diverse ancestries living side-by-side) in the heartlands of the Tiwanaku and Inca polities. We also highlight cases of long-range mobility connecting the Andes to Argentina and the Northwest Andes to the Amazon Basin. VIDEO ABSTRACT.
