CONGRESS
Scientific Congress
held within the framework of the
Ist Archaeology Publishing Fair
Organized by Ediarché Srl
Rome 20-23 May 2010
Luigi Pigorini National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography
From birth to death: an anthropological and archaeological comparison
Studies in the honour of Claude Lévi-Strauss
May 21st 2010
The meeting “From birth to death: an anthropological and archaeological comparison” is dedicated the to memory of the maestro C. Lévi-Strauss, who has recently passed away. The event aims to offer an occasion of encounter for specialists of two important branches of social sciences: anthropologists and archaeologists, who are often isolated in their our specialized fields, with rare opportunities of dialogue, yet united by an inseparable liaison: Man.
The venue selected for this event seems already to abridge this distance, offering in a single space some of the most important Italian prehistory and protohistory objects, as well as world-wide ethnographic materials, whose studying disciplines were developed during the same initial impulse during the second half of the 19th century. And it is precisely in this period that the foundation of Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography of Rome took place, as the expression of a time in which archaeology and anthropology - much more of what happens today - were considered the two sides of the same coin.
During the day, experts from both disciplines will discuss core interrogatives of human life, analysing different forms of documentation and archaeological and ethnoanthropological research. The discussion will follow an unitary thematic order that, topic by topic, from birth to death, will present the different stages of existence: from childhood to teenage, rites of passage, initiations, marriage, war, exchange and trade, cult and ritual, old age to finally reach the passing away.
Edited by Dr. Valentino Nizzo
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