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A História da Alimentação: balizas historiográficas

Os M. pretenderam traçar um quadro da História da Alimentação, não como um novo ramo epistemológico da disciplina, mas como um campo em desenvolvimento de práticas e atividades especializadas, incluindo pesquisa, formação, publicações, associações, encontros acadêmicos, etc. Um breve relato das condições em que tal campo se assentou faz-se preceder de um panorama dos estudos de alimentação e temas correia tos, em geral, segundo cinco abardagens Ia biológica, a econômica, a social, a cultural e a filosófica!, assim como da identificação das contribuições mais relevantes da Antropologia, Arqueologia, Sociologia e Geografia. A fim de comentar a multiforme e volumosa bibliografia histórica, foi ela organizada segundo critérios morfológicos. A seguir, alguns tópicos importantes mereceram tratamento à parte: a fome, o alimento e o domínio religioso, as descobertas européias e a difusão mundial de alimentos, gosto e gastronomia. O artigo se encerra com um rápido balanço crítico da historiografia brasileira sobre o tema

The port of Genoa - Voltri (Liguria Italy): A case of updrift erosion

The effects of port structures on 'downdrift' shoreline areas have been extensively studied and are widely known today. Their effects on 'updrift' areas are less well known. However, these morphosedimentological variations, although not comparable in intensity to the previous variations, can produce relatively important phenomena on the shoreline, especially in the case of a significant drift. In fact. they can modify the coastal exposure to the wave-wind climate and produce a variation in the drift and sedimentary budget in different areas; consequently, they call produce erosive and accumulation phenomena. This paper presents a study of the shoreline to the west of the poll structures of Genoa-Voltri that have altered the local sedimentary dynamics, causing disequilibrium to the nearby beach with an evident progradation in the eastern area of the shoreline and a significant regression in the central area

Nec Cogitare Sed Facere: The Paradox of Fiction at the Tribunal of Ancient Poetics.

The place of emotions in aesthetic response has long been a topic in contemporary philo- sophical theorizing. One aspect of the debate in particular seems to have become a recalcitrant problem: when experiencing fiction, we experience emotional reactions towards what we know not to exist. Is this rational? In fact, is it even possible? This article deals with the so-called \u201cparadox of fiction\u201d from the viewpoint of ancient poetics. In the first section, I survey some of the main arguments proposed to (dis)solve the paradox in analytic philosophy. In the second and the third sections, I address what I consider two problematic assumptions of existing analytic approaches: their prescriptive, \u201cessentialist\u201d attitude and their exclusive focus on matters of content. By offer- ing a brief sketch of the ancient principles of \u201clikelihood\u201d and \u201cvividness\u201d, I argue that they pro- vide a direct and cognitively realistic answer to the paradox insofar as they account for the neutralization of doxastic features in imaginative acts and ground affective responses to fiction in the phenomenon of \u201caesthetic immersion\u201d, explained in experiential, rather than representational, terms

Progetto Pilota del Sistema Portuale ligure

Sono stati pubblicati in estrema sintesi i risultati di analisi e progetto svolti negli anni 1978/80 per Ministero del Bilancio e della Programmazione Economica - Regione Liguria - ITALIMPIANTI S.p.A. Iri-Finsider. In particolare il dr. G.Sergi ha studiato i rapporti tra sistema portuale e sistema urbano-territoriale. Editore SIAG, Genov