Oxana Fais-Leutskaia
Biographic Data
| ID | 3815047 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Oxana Fais-Leutskaia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Oxana |
| FAMILY NAME | Fais-Leutskaia |
| SIGNATURE | FAIS-LEUTSKAIA O |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Agave and prickly pear in the culture of Sicily
In this article, drawing on her many years of fieldwork on Sicilian traditional culture, the author focuses on the fate of two "objects" of the Columbus Exchange in Sicily - the agave and the prickly pear. The aim of the analysis is not only to explain the acculturation of these two plants in the context of the island region, but also to consider the possible direct contacts of this region with New Spain and the hypothetical participation of Sici…
On the Issue of the Gender Situation in Modern Sicily
One of the important characteristics of any society is its historically established gender role “profile”, traditional gender principles of its management and daily existence, conditioned by traditions, specifics of culture and history of society, which are much less likely than its other social characteristics to come into the focus of researchers’ attention. In this article, using the example of a region such as Sicily, a territory of special c…
Anthropology of Nutrition as a Mega-Discipline
The article highlights the work of one of the sections of the 15th Congress of Anthropologists and Ethnologists of Russia — the section “Anthropology of Nutrition as a Mega-Discipline: Field, Language, and Archive”, which, after a long break, again reminded from the stands of a wide scientific forum about the existence of such a direction of scientific search as research in an interdisciplinary manner and in the paradigm of anthropology of a wide…
On the Issue of Celebrating the New Year in Italy
New Year in Italy is one of the traditional winter holidays of the “Christmas cycle”. This extremely little-studied phenomenon nowadays distinguishes on the scale of Italy by a fairly unified scenario of conducting and preserving numerous previously traditional rites, rituals, beliefs and practices, some of which reveal great vitality. The author, resorting to various sources (including her own field materials), makes an attempt not only to recon…
Prosciutto
Anthropology of Food
Prosciutto
Anthropology of Food
On the Issue of Celebrating the New Year in Italy
New Year in Italy is one of the traditional winter holidays of the “Christmas cycle”. This extremely little-studied phenomenon nowadays distinguishes on the scale of Italy by a fairly unified scenario of conducting and preserving numerous previously traditional rites, rituals, beliefs and practices, some of which reveal great vitality. The author, resorting to various sources (including her own field materials), makes an attempt not only to recon…
Anthropology of Nutrition as a Mega-Discipline
The article highlights the work of one of the sections of the 15th Congress of Anthropologists and Ethnologists of Russia — the section “Anthropology of Nutrition as a Mega-Discipline: Field, Language, and Archive”, which, after a long break, again reminded from the stands of a wide scientific forum about the existence of such a direction of scientific search as research in an interdisciplinary manner and in the paradigm of anthropology of a wide…
On the Issue of the Gender Situation in Modern Sicily
One of the important characteristics of any society is its historically established gender role “profile”, traditional gender principles of its management and daily existence, conditioned by traditions, specifics of culture and history of society, which are much less likely than its other social characteristics to come into the focus of researchers’ attention. In this article, using the example of a region such as Sicily, a territory of special c…
Agave and prickly pear in the culture of Sicily
In this article, drawing on her many years of fieldwork on Sicilian traditional culture, the author focuses on the fate of two "objects" of the Columbus Exchange in Sicily - the agave and the prickly pear. The aim of the analysis is not only to explain the acculturation of these two plants in the context of the island region, but also to consider the possible direct contacts of this region with New Spain and the hypothetical participation of Sici…
Culinary Culture and Tourism (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Acculturation (1 work) · Agave (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work) · Applied anthropology (1 work) · Archaeological and Historical Studies (1 work) · Argument (complex analysis (1 work) · Chronology (1 work) · Conservatism (1 work)