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International audience ; The book includes twelve contributions (three in French, four in English, five in Italian) covering a wide spectrum of locations around the world: from Hawaii to Italy (Sicily, the Alps, the Neapolitan area: the Phlegraean Fields, Ischia island and mount Vesuvius), from the Democratic Republic of Congo to India, from Papua New Guinea to Latin America. It proceeds from different interpretative perspectives, so as to overcome the disciplinary boundaries and to encourage readings that can be integrated with each other. The same variety is present both in the field of disasters and in popular/oral literature. In the first case, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, droughts, landslides and mudflows, glaciers and global warming are evoked. In the second, popular legends, proverbs, fairy tales, myths, collective memory, plausible tales, conspiracy theories and urban legends.BOOK INDEX:Preface - Joel CandauIntroduction - Giovanni Gugg, Elisabetta Dall'O', Domenica BorrielloSection I - Magnitude1. L'isola nata in mezzo al mare. Mitopoiesi, disastri e microcosmi - Ugo Vuoso2. The Papua New Guinea Liquefied Natural Gas Project and the moral decay of the universe - Michael Main3. Pozzuoli, 2 marzo 1970: lo sgombero del rione Terra nella memoria dei puteolani - Maria Laura LongoSection II - Eruptions4. Il vulcano meraviglioso. Antropologia del racconto fantastico vesuviano - Giovanni Gugg5. Les Volcans des Virunga à l'Est de la République Démocratique du Congo, une perception populaire: un mythe ou une réalité ? - Patrick Habakaramo, Gracia Mutalegwa, Justin Kahuranyi, Katcho Karume6. Ka wahine 'ai honua, la donna che divora la terra: un'analisi ecoantropologica del mito di Pele - Emanuela Borgnino 7. The Veil of Saint Agatha in Popular Narratives of Etna Risk - Salvatore Cannizzaro, Gian Luigi Corinto Section III - Conspiracies8. Les théories du complot : entre croyances, légendes et menaces sociales - Christine Bonardi 9. Une esthétique de l'impensable. Miettes pour une anthropologie généralisée du ...

International audience ; The book includes twelve contributions (three in French, four in English, five in Italian) covering a wide spectrum of locations around the world: from Hawaii to Italy (Sicily, the Alps, the Neapolitan area: the Phlegraean Fields, Ischia island and mount Vesuvius), from the Democratic Republic of Congo to India, from Papua New Guinea to Latin America. It proceeds from different interpretative perspectives, so as to overcome the disciplinary boundaries and to encourage readings that can be integrated with each other. The same variety is present both in the field of disasters and in popular/oral literature. In the first case, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, droughts, landslides and mudflows, glaciers and global warming are evoked. In the second, popular legends, proverbs, fairy tales, myths, collective memory, plausible tales, conspiracy theories and urban legends.BOOK INDEX:Preface - Joel CandauIntroduction - Giovanni Gugg, Elisabetta Dall'O', Domenica BorrielloSection I - Magnitude1. L'isola nata in mezzo al mare. Mitopoiesi, disastri e microcosmi - Ugo Vuoso2. The Papua New Guinea Liquefied Natural Gas Project and the moral decay of the universe - Michael Main3. Pozzuoli, 2 marzo 1970: lo sgombero del rione Terra nella memoria dei puteolani - Maria Laura LongoSection II - Eruptions4. Il vulcano meraviglioso. Antropologia del racconto fantastico vesuviano - Giovanni Gugg5. Les Volcans des Virunga à l'Est de la République Démocratique du Congo, une perception populaire: un mythe ou une réalité ? - Patrick Habakaramo, Gracia Mutalegwa, Justin Kahuranyi, Katcho Karume6. Ka wahine 'ai honua, la donna che divora la terra: un'analisi ecoantropologica del mito di Pele - Emanuela Borgnino 7. The Veil of Saint Agatha in Popular Narratives of Etna Risk - Salvatore Cannizzaro, Gian Luigi Corinto Section III - Conspiracies8. Les théories du complot : entre croyances, légendes et menaces sociales - Christine Bonardi 9. Une esthétique de l'impensable. Miettes pour une anthropologie généralisée du ...

Popular culture and quotidian nationalism / Tim Nieguth -- Donut nation : Tim Hortons and Canadian identity / Yasmeen Abu-Laban -- Völkisch vibes : neofolk, place, politics, and pan-European Nationalism / Robert A. Saunders -- Contemporary Israeli television challenges national traumas / Adia Mendelson-Maoz and Liat Steir-Livny -- The burka and beyond : burka avenger, Muslim women, and Pakistani national identity / Lena Saleh -- Triple J's hottest 100 : Australia's largest music democracy? / Jennifer Phillips -- Transnational laughter : reception and conservative policies of transposition : the case of the Nanny and Married with Children / Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns -- Understanding nationalism in popular culture through the lenses of affect and circulation / Emily West -- "Nothing here Is what it seems" : Firefly, anti-statism, and American national identity / Tim Nieguth.

'Law and Popular Culture' contains a broad range of essays by scholars interested in the interactions between law and popular culture. Topics include: law in fiction, law and popular music crime and punishment in popular culture and the law on sexuality and media representations of lesbianism.

The present volume deals with popular culture from an interdisciplinary perspective. Popular culture, as an important part of the public sphere, has attracted the interest of social scientists for many decades; however, most studies tend to rely on the anthropological perspective or, less commonly, on the sociological perspective. This edited volume breaks down disciplinary barriers to bring together a plethora of methodological and theoretical approaches to the study of popular culture. More