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• 03 déc 2015

  Palermo

  Conference, symposium - Prehistory and Antiquity

  Hydraulic installations and water management in the Mediterranean in the 1st millenium BC

  ii HYDRΩMED international symposium

  Une rencontre pour mettre en lumière les interactions entre aménagements hydrauliques et ressources en eau et pour s’interroger sur les politiques d’acquisition, de distribution et de consommation de l’eau développées par les principales sociétés méditerranéennes préromaines.

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• 27 fév 2015

  Palermo

  Conference, symposium - Prehistory and Antiquity

  Feeding animals/Eating animals. Theories, Attitudes and Cultural Representations of Nutrition in Ancient and Medieval World

  Memoria scientiae 2015

  According to ancient biological theories, nutrition is, along with reproduction, one of the functions of the soul shared by men, animals and plants. At the same time, however, eating habits are among the starting points on which differences between humans, animals and plants are culturally built. This means that a transversal biological praxis can be used as an anthropological device, in order to to fix and identify specific boundaries and thresholds, either symbolic or theoretical, between both animality and vegetality on the one hand, and zoosphere and  anthroposphere on the other hand.

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