The Italian Ethnological Mission to Ghana and Cultural Cooperation: Heritage-Making Processes in the Nzema Area (South-West Ghana).

In the last fifteen years the Italian Ethnological Mission to Ghana (IEMG), established in 1956, has been supporting cultural cooperation projects aiming to the valorisation of natural and cultural heritage of the Nzema area (South-West Ghana). The long-term relationships between IEMG anthropologists and local actors have led representatives of Ghanaian communities and institutions to ask for a restitution of knowledge gathered throughout the years by researchers. In order to meet these requests, in mid-1990s IEMG opened the way to the international cooperation in the area, and promoted development projects focused on micro-credit. However, the restitution of ethnographic knowledge has mostly been achieved through the cultural cooperation project Fort Apollonia and the Nzemas. Community-based Management of Natural and Cultural Heritage, Western Region (2008-2011). Managed by COSPE NGO (Cooperation for the Development of Emerging Countries) in collaboration with IEMG and many Ghanaian institutional actors, this project culminated in in 2010 in the establishment of a museum-cultural centre. Today, the Fort Apollonia Museum of Nzema Culture and History plays a leading role in the safeguarding and valorisation of local heritage, as it is testified by its recent participation to a project \u2013 founded by the British Library and Sapienza University of Rome \u2013 concerning the conservation and digitization of archival documents belonging to Nzema traditional authorities. This project is part of a wider program aiming to the establishment of a digital archive including the documents related to Nzema chieftaincy as well as the research materials produced by IEMG scholars, currently being catalogued and digitized at Sapienza University of Rome. This paper will illustrate the main features of the ongoing ethnographic restitution process, focusing on synergetic interactions among anthropologists, local actors and NGOs. Thus, the authors will discuss how an academic Mission, within a specific area, can trigger development processes and then contribute to the shifting of development cooperation into cultural cooperation. Finally, they will point out the results of this multifaceted relation among academia, Ghanaian interlocutors and development operators, in terms of local empowerment

Asteroid photometry and lightcurve analysis at Gora's Observatories

Synodic rotation periods and amplitudes are reported for 179 Klytaemnestra, 372 Palma, 504 Cora, 739 Mandeville, 749 Malzovia, 925 Alphonsina, 1015 Christa, 1086 Nata, and 1794 Finsen.Fil: Colazo, Milagros Rita. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba. Instituto de Astronomía Teórica y Experimental. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Observatorio Astronómico de Córdoba. Instituto de Astronomía Teórica y Experimental; ArgentinaFil: Fornari, César. Gora-grupo de Observadores de Rotaciones de Asteroides; ArgentinaFil: Santucho, Marcos Ariel. Gora-grupo de Observadores de Rotaciones de Asteroides; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Mottino, Aldo Domingo. Gora-grupo de Observadores de Rotaciones de Asteroides; Argentina. Gora-grupo de Observadores de Rotaciones de Asteroides; ArgentinaFil: Colazo, Carlos Roberto. Gora-grupo de Observadores de Rotaciones de Asteroides; ArgentinaFil: Melia, Raúl. Gora-grupo de Observadores de Rotaciones de Asteroides; ArgentinaFil: Vasconi, Nicolás. Gora-grupo de Observadores de Rotaciones de Asteroides; ArgentinaFil: Arias, Daniela. Gora-grupo de Observadores de Rotaciones de Asteroides; ArgentinaFil: Pittari, Claudio. Gora-grupo de Observadores de Rotaciones de Asteroides; ArgentinaFil: Suarez, Nestor Eduardo. Gora-grupo de Observadores de Rotaciones de Asteroides; ArgentinaFil: Pulver, Eduardo. Gora-grupo de Observadores de Rotaciones de Asteroides; ArgentinaFil: Ferrero, Guillermo Oscar. Gora-grupo de Observadores de Rotaciones de Asteroides; ArgentinaFil: Chapman, Andrés. Gora-grupo de Observadores de Rotaciones de Asteroides; ArgentinaFil: Girardini, Carla. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Observatorio Astronómico de Córdoba; Argentina. Gora-grupo de Observadores de Rotaciones de Asteroides; ArgentinaFil: Rodríguez, Elisa. Gora-grupo de Observadores de Rotaciones de Asteroides; ArgentinaFil: Amilibia, Guillermo. Gora-grupo de Observadores de Rotaciones de Asteroides; ArgentinaFil: Anzola, Marcos. Gora-grupo de Observadores de Rotaciones de Asteroides; ArgentinaFil: Tornatore, Marina. Gora-grupo de Observadores de Rotaciones de Asteroides; ArgentinaFil: Nolte, Ricardo. Gora-grupo de Observadores de Rotaciones de Asteroides; ArgentinaFil: Morero, Sergio. Gora-grupo de Observadores de Rotaciones de Asteroides; ArgentinaFil: Oey, Julián. Blue Mountains Observatory; Australi

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Salute e migrazione: dai pregiudizi biomedici alla complessità dei contesti di origine.Il caso della salute mentale in Ghana

Uno degli apporti più interessanti che le riflessioni antropologiche possono restituire al complesso binomio salute-migrazione, è quello relativo all’analisi dei contesti di origine delle persone migranti, delle diverse ideologie della salute e della malattia nonché delle loro numerose pratiche e conoscenze terapeutiche. Il presente lavoro si inserisce proprio in questa prospettiva, attraverso l’analisi del sistema medico-sanitario di un determinato territorio dell’Africa subsahariana, che permette di evidenziare la complessità dei contesti altri e di sottolineare quanto e perché le categorie culturali di etnicità e razza siano estremamente fuorvianti e riduttive. Il caso del Ghana, e in particolare dell’area nzema, qui esaminato mette in evidenza il pluralismo medico, l’eterogeneità delle pratiche e dei saperi terapeutici, le differenti ideologie di salute e malattia, la diversa percezione di efficacia, le numerose forme di cura e guarigione, l’impossibilità di costruire dei precipui modelli di itinerari terapeutici: tutti elementi che caratterizzano spesso i luoghi di provenienza delle persone migranti presenti nel nostro Paese. Dopo la descrizione del sistema sanitario nazionale del Ghana e delle diverse risorse terapeutiche disponibili in area nzema, particolare attenzione sarà dedicata alla salute mentale, uno specifico ambito della sanità pubblica che nel territorio ghanese permette di sottolineare la compresenza delle diverse tradizioni terapeutiche e l’impossibilità di esaminare il mondo medico-sanitario dei paesi subsahariani attraverso analisi semplicistiche ed essenzializzanti

Restitution et patrimonialisation de la médecine traditionnelle au musée de Fort Apollonia (Sud-Ouest du Ghana)

Starting from the valorization of local culture launched over the last few years in the Nzema area (South-western Ghana) — that culminated in 2010 with the inauguration of the Fort Apollonia Museum of Nzema Culture and History —, the paper aims to shed light upon the original heritage-making process of Nzema traditional medicine, which has produced, as its major outcome, an exhibition entirely dedicated to the local medical knowledge and therapeutic practices within the Museum itself. The local medical system has been at the core of a long-lasting tradition of anthropological studies deeply linked to the research carried out by the Italian Ethnological Mission to Ghana present in the area since 1954 and actively involved in setting up the Apollonia Museum together with other Ghanaian institutional partners, NGOs and representatives of Nzema traditional healers’ associations. The familiarity of Nzemas with Italian anthropologists has constituted a key factor and shaped the whole museum. The valorization of the relations between two different cultures and perspectives took place, especially in the traditional medicine room exhibition, through the enhancement of dialogical and collaborative practices both in the design and in the practical realization of the exhibition, insomuch as the traditional medicine room in Fort Apollonia is an example of a shared heritage-making process

Restitution et patrimonialisation de la médecine traditionnelle au musée de Fort Apollonia (Sud-Ouest du Ghana)

Starting from the valorization of local culture launched over the last few years in the Nzema area (South-western Ghana) — that culminated in 2010 with the inauguration of the Fort Apollonia Museum of Nzema Culture and History —, the paper aims to shed light upon the original heritage-making process of Nzema traditional medicine, which has produced, as its major outcome, an exhibition entirely dedicated to the local medical knowledge and therapeutic practices within the Museum itself. The local medical system has been at the core of a long-lasting tradition of anthropological studies deeply linked to the research carried out by the Italian Ethnological Mission to Ghana present in the area since 1954 and actively involved in setting up the Apollonia Museum together with other Ghanaian institutional partners, NGOs and representatives of Nzema traditional healers’ associations. The familiarity of Nzemas with Italian anthropologists has constituted a key factor and shaped the whole museum. The valorization of the relations between two different cultures and perspectives took place, especially in the traditional medicine room exhibition, through the enhancement of dialogical and collaborative practices both in the design and in the practical realization of the exhibition, insomuch as the traditional medicine room in Fort Apollonia is an example of a shared heritage-making process

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