Giuseppe Maiello

University of Finance and Administration, Prague · Marketing communication

Modern societies have been strongly influenced by the development of digital media, which has facilitated not only the transmission of information and symbolic content, but also the creation of new forms of action, interaction, and social relations. The pervasiveness of digitization increased between 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, whic...

This paper presents a specific situation concerning the Czech Pagan community, mainly through the narrative of the actors. Using the emic approach, the aim of the paper is to show an insider’s perspective of the ways in which Czech Pagans relate to the problematics of transgender, and its connection with the vaguely understood concept of shamanism....

The author presents eight studies carried out during the global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and focuses on different methodological issues to be addressed within the Digital Society and netnographic research. The studies are reported in a common context ranging from the individual experiences of researchers to the receipt of pol...

Práce umožňuje antropologický vhled do tematiky života lidí ve specifické, BDSM komunitě. Prostřednictvím terénního výzkumu, jehož součástí bylo dlouhodobější zúčastněné pozorování a formální i neformální rozhovory s pasivními i aktivními členy této komunity, autoři dospěli k sumárním závěrům. Bylo potvrzeno, že nejčastěji používanými praktikami js...

The study presents the activities of the American folklorist Charles Godfrey Leland (1824–1903) in Italy. Leland‘s aim was to find relics of the ancient religion of the Etruscans and the ancient Romans among the peasants and shepherds living in the upper regions of Apennine, between Florence and Bologna. Collections of legends and tales of the loca...

The study offers a description of the difficulty of describing the boundaries between various study disciplines such as ethnology, folklore and ethnography in the context of pre and postunitary Italy. In a specific paragraph are presented the oldest collections of fairy tales, collected by Giovanni Francesco Straparola (1480?–1557), Giambattista Ba...

The study describes the building of anthropology and the disciplines connected to it during the first years of the Italian state. The schools of thinking inspired by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and those of Darwinian inspiration are compared, and the text explains how Italian scientists discovered modern ethnography and folklore studies. The study focuse...

In the late 1980’s, Slavonic studies at the Istituto Orientale in Naples were well established. A large number of lecturers, assistant professors, associate professors and world-renowned professors worked in the Department of East-European studies, producing scientific literature of a high quality. After a quarter century, however, this human and s...

The paper gives an overview of Italian folklore since the end of World War II to the institutionalization of folklore studies during the last 20 years of the 20th century. The article lists the magazines and institutions of that time and focuses especially on the review "Il Folklore italiano" and the handbooks of folklore written by Raffaele Corso...

In 2014, we commemorate the 60th anniversary of Klement Kralik’s death, who was the director of the Girls' High School in Olomouc. Klement Kralik was an important personality of the pedagogical, journalistic and linguistic life of the town of Olomouc in the first half of the 20th century The authors of this contribution describe the most important...

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