I Documenti Takeuci 2

Takeuchi Documents II

A considerable number of maps relating to round the world trips made by Heavenly Emperors in spaceships in an extremely ancient age are just a few of the things to be found among the Takeuchi Documents that have only recently come to light after being secretly buried underground and guarded for over 1500 years by sixty seven generations of superintendent priests in the Koso Kotai Jingu shrine in Japan.

Non solo soft. Attori, processi, sistemi: un approccio sociologico

Rereading Travellers to the East

Rereading Travellers to the East aim to offer a new perspective on travel literature, the question of nation-building and the history of orientalism. Rereading Travellers focuses on the rereadings to which early modern travel literature about Asia has been subjected by different actors involved in the political, economic, cultural and intellectual life of post-unification Italy. The authors highlight how this literature has been reinterpreted and reused for political and ideological purposes in the context of the formation and reformation of collective identities, from the Risorgimento to the Fascist regime and the early republic. By showing the potential of the notion of rereading, the volume outlines a history of the political and cultural legacy of travel literature which goes well beyond Italy.