Augusto Cacopardo
Biographic Data
| ID | 3736933 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Augusto Cacopardo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Augusto |
| FAMILY NAME | Cacopardo |
| SIGNATURE | CACOPARDO A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florence |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
L'arte contemporanea in un ambiente rinascimentale: Firenze e la sua realtà artistica
The Kalasha (Pakistan) Winter Solstice Festival
Descrizione e interpretazione della festa del solstizio d'inverno della valle Kalasha di Rumbur del 1973. Gli autori furono i primi etnografi a partecipare all'evento. L'articolo contiene l'indicazione del contributo di ciascun autore. I referee sono esperti anonimi
The Winter Solstice Festival of Kalasha of Birir: Some Comperative Suggestions
The Chaumos Winter Solstice Festival is the fulcrum of the ritual system of the Kalasha, the last polytheists of the Hindu Kush. The Chaumos of the Birir valley was documented for the first time in 2006 by the author. The article investigates the structure and the meanings of this complex ritual event and sketches a comparison with a better-known, and rather different, version of the same festival celebrated in the other Kalasha communities, high…
Texts from the Winter Feasts of the Kalasha of Birir
The author presents a collection of texts recorded in 2006–07 during the winter ritual cycle of the Kalasha of the Birir valley – in NorthWest Pakistan – who still practice an archaic form of polytheism with pre-Vedic roots. The fulcrum of the cycle is the Chaumos Winter Solstice Festival, but a number of other festivities follow it at intervals forming a sequence almost two months long, lasting until February. The selection includes texts of son…
Are the Kalasha really of Greek origin? The Legend of Alexander the Great and the Pre-Islamic World of the Hindu Kush1
The paper refutes the claim that the Kalasha may be the descendants of the Greeks of Asia. First, traditions of Alexandrian descent in the Hindu Kush are examined on the basis of written sources and it is shown that such legends are not part of Kalasha traditional knowledge. Secondly, it is argued that the Kalasha were an integral part of the pre-Islamic cultural fabric of the Hindu Kush, and cannot be seen as intruders in the area, as legends of…
The Kalasha (Pakistan) Winter Solstice Festival
Descrizione e interpretazione della festa del solstizio d'inverno della valle Kalasha di Rumbur del 1973. Gli autori furono i primi etnografi a partecipare all'evento. L'articolo contiene l'indicazione del contributo di ciascun autore. I referee sono esperti anonimi
The Winter Solstice Festival of Kalasha of Birir: Some Comperative Suggestions
The Chaumos Winter Solstice Festival is the fulcrum of the ritual system of the Kalasha, the last polytheists of the Hindu Kush. The Chaumos of the Birir valley was documented for the first time in 2006 by the author. The article investigates the structure and the meanings of this complex ritual event and sketches a comparison with a better-known, and rather different, version of the same festival celebrated in the other Kalasha communities, high…
Texts from the Winter Feasts of the Kalasha of Birir
The author presents a collection of texts recorded in 2006–07 during the winter ritual cycle of the Kalasha of the Birir valley – in NorthWest Pakistan – who still practice an archaic form of polytheism with pre-Vedic roots. The fulcrum of the cycle is the Chaumos Winter Solstice Festival, but a number of other festivities follow it at intervals forming a sequence almost two months long, lasting until February. The selection includes texts of son…
Are the Kalasha really of Greek origin? The Legend of Alexander the Great and the Pre-Islamic World of the Hindu Kush1
The paper refutes the claim that the Kalasha may be the descendants of the Greeks of Asia. First, traditions of Alexandrian descent in the Hindu Kush are examined on the basis of written sources and it is shown that such legends are not part of Kalasha traditional knowledge. Secondly, it is argued that the Kalasha were an integral part of the pre-Islamic cultural fabric of the Hindu Kush, and cannot be seen as intruders in the area, as legends of…
The Kalasha (Pakistan) Winter Solstice Festival
Descrizione e interpretazione della festa del solstizio d'inverno della valle Kalasha di Rumbur del 1973. Gli autori furono i primi etnografi a partecipare all'evento. L'articolo contiene l'indicazione del contributo di ciascun autore. I referee sono esperti anonimi
L'arte contemporanea in un ambiente rinascimentale: Firenze e la sua realtà artistica
Geography (4 works) · History (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Hinduism (3 works) · History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Eurasian Exchange Networks (2 works)