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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 ...