by Gaudenzio Ragazzi | Aug 31, 2018 | Senza categoria
A dance is the formal result of a certain kind of symbolic transformation of reality. The instinct that moves the dancer is that of measuring and forming the space with his own body. In the archaic conception life is certified by the presence of movement. A primary...
by Gaudenzio Ragazzi | Aug 22, 2018 | Senza categoria
We have recently analyzed the gesture of dervish, which performs its ritual by whirling with the arms open to outside, the palm of the right hand facing up, the palm of the left below. By performing this gesture, the dervish works in such a way as to receive the...
by Gaudenzio Ragazzi | Aug 16, 2018 | Senza categoria
With the paper “La prèèminence de la main droite. Étude sur la polaritè religieuse” (1909) Robert Hertz was the first anthropologist to assert that in western tradition the right hand (and the right side of the body) enjoys a superiority compared to the...
by Gaudenzio Ragazzi | Jul 21, 2018 | Senza categoria
The paintings that the scholars have found in the depth of some caves of Franco-Cantabrian area had a considerable importance for the paleolithic people (from 35,000 to 10,000 years ago) who made them. Not for nothing entering these caves involved serious dangers....
by Gaudenzio Ragazzi | Jul 14, 2018 | Senza categoria
Meaning is not a consequence of a cause, but the working out of the knowing subject. While in the natural sciences the object of the research is a material element always equal to itself in space and time, having no awareness of the mechanisms where it belongs, in...
by Gaudenzio Ragazzi | Jul 5, 2018 | Senza categoria
The first sound instrument of man was his body, from which he drew the physical, but also intellectual resources, essential to improve his existence and to extend the control over nature. This was possible by virtue of a multi-millennial technological development...
