2. Romani Law

2. Romani Law
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from three to fifteen million.
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a population that left northern India about a thousand years ago.
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claiming to be from Lesser Egypt in Greece on pilgrimage as penance for the temporary abandonment of Christianity by their ancestors.
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bearing letters of safe conduct from Sigismund giving them judicial autonomy, the right to be punished only by their own authorities.
Note:ATTRAVERSARONO L EU

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Polylegal systems, systems in which different people in the same country were under different legal authorities,
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Romani x 3: Vlach Rom, Romanichal, Kalle
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Vlach Rom
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After serfdom was abolished in Romania in the 19th century many of the Vlach Rom emigrated.
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Anne Sutherland
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The basic unit is the familia: a couple, their adult sons,
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Above the familia is the vitsa, a larger kinship group descended from an ancestor some generations back.
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Above the vitsa is the Natsiya, nation.
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Machwaya, Lowara, Kalderasha and Churara.
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Marriage is by purchase,
Note:QUALCHE MIGLIAIO DI DOLLARI SBORSATO DALLE FAMIGLIE

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While consent of bride and groom is required, it is up to a man’s parents to find him a wife and negotiate
Note:PRECSAZIONE

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she is expected to do much of the work of the household.
Note:RUOLI

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As she produces children, her status in the household gradually rises.
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parents retain the ability to cancel the marriage and retrieve their daughter;
Note:LA RESA DEL DENARO È OGGETTO DI CONFLITTI INFINITI

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The geographical unit above the Familia is the kumpania. The original meaning seems to have been an encampment,
Note:LA NAZIONE È LEGATA ALLA PARENTELA

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A Kumpania usually has a Rom Baro, a “Big Man,” who plays an important role in interactions
Note:IL BOSS CHE TRATTA CON LA POLIZIA

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It may contain households of several vitsa, in which case its leader will probably be the leading figure of whichever vitsa has the most households.
Note:IL CAMPO

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An unwelcome family can be reported to the police for crimes they did or did not commit,
Note:CAMPO CHIUSO

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Legal System
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Obligations apply to fellow Rom not to outsiders, Gaje.
Note:DIRITTI E DOVERI

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Swindling or stealing from a fellow Romani is an offense to be dealt with and uncommon,76 swindling or stealing from an outsider comes under Romania only to the extent that it creates problems for other Rom.
Note:FURTO E TRUFFA

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There is no word for all men and women.
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Romani view the non-Romani population not as part of their society but as part of their environment.
Note:NATURA

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Romani acted in a way that offended the locals and then left; the locals responded by punishing a second group of Romani for the offenses of the first. The second group’s response was to claim damages via a kris, a Romani court, from the responsible parties—not the locals who attacked them but the first group of Romani.
Note:UN CASO INTERESSANTE

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an elaborate system of purity and pollution, Orthodox Judaism on steroids.
Note:MA LA CARATTERISTICA PRINCIPALE

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clean from the waist up, unclean from the waist down.
Note:IL CORPO UMANO

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different wash tubs are supposed to be used for men’s lower garments, men’s upper garments, women’s lower garments, women’s upper garments,
Note:LVATRICI DIFFERENZIATE

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marimé is really two things, the state of being polluted and the status of ostracism due to being polluted.
Note:LA SPORCIZIA È CONTAGIOSA E IMPLICA ESCLUSIONE

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Because pollution is contagious and Gaje neither know nor follow the rules to prevent it, association with them is sharply limited.
Note:GAJE

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A pregnant woman is expected to eat alone, consume food cooked in her own pots, and after childbirth destroy the garments she wore while pregnant.
Note:SESSO E ESCREMENT SONO ASSOCIATI COL BASSO

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skirt tossing—exposing her genitals—obliging the victim to engage in costly procedures of purification.
Note:LA MALEDIZIONE

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Enforcement
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feud and the threat of ostracism
Note:LA PUNIZIONE PRINCIP

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He retaliated with an approach common in Vlach Rom feuds, using the gaje authorities to impose costs on his opponent.
Note:LA DELAZIONE COME VENDETTA

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The Rom often lie to each other about everyday matters, but they almost always lie to the gaje. There is no particular shame attached to lying to each other
Note:LA MANIPOLAZIONE COME ABILITÀ PRINCIPALE

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My cross-checking technique was all the more acceptable since the Rom employ the same tactics with each other.
Note:LA TECNICA DELLE TRE CONFERME

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When one party to a conflict is unable to force the other to yield, an alternative approach is avoidance.
Note:NOMADISMO

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had two judges, selected for their reputation, and a jury of twenty-five.
Note:KRIS....LA CORTE

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When a person is declared marime publicly, whether by a group of people (such as families in the kumpania) or more formally in a kris romani (trial), he is immediately denied commensality with other Rom.
Note:OSTRACISMO UNICA PENA

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Ostracism is a way in which an embedded legal system, one that exists under the rule of a state with much greater resources of coercion than the community possesses, can function. Refusing to associate with someone is not illegal, so the marimé penalty can be enforced without coming into conflict with state law.

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GIUSTIZIA EMBEDDED

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Status
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Age is directly correlated with power and respect —
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Within the kumpania, the sexes are largely segregated, males interacting with males, females with females.
Note:SESSISMO SPINTO

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While both men and women may bring in money, women are viewed as the primary earners, often through fortune telling, men as their assistants.
Note:FONTI DEL PANE

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Outside of the family structure, the Romani are strikingly unwilling to engage in hierarchical relationships.
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Legislation
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Romania is a combination of law, religion, and medical belief—violation
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violation brings social sanctions but also bad luck and ill health.
Note:SANZIONI

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Romanichal
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Kaale
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carry the Vlach Rom attitude towards the lower half of the body even further than other Romani, refusing to openly admit the facts of human reproduction.88
Note:RIMOZIONE

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They have no institution of marriage. Couples that wish to reproduce are expected to first leave their family households, flee far enough away so that the woman’s kin cannot find them and retrieve her, and return only when their child is weaned
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There can be no restrictions associated with menstruation since enforcing them would require recognition of the fact of menstruation, and similarly with pregnancy.
Note:EFFETTI DELLA RIMPZIONE

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There is no equivalent of the court procedures or arbitrated settlements that terminated Icelandic feuds.
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feud mostly takes the form not of violence but of avoidance—of
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Explaining the Differences
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Thomas Acton, Susan Caffrey, and Gary Mundy, the authors of Chapter 3 of Gypsy Law
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the ability, when all else fails, of one party to walk out on the other and their dispute; absent that, the risk of serious violence becomes too large.
Note:UNA DIFFERENZA CHE SI RIPERCUOTE SULLA TRADIZIONE

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the period of four centuries during which the Vlach Rom were enserfed in Romania.
Note:STORIA...ECCEZIONE AL LORO ENDEMICO NOMADISMO

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the feud system represents the original institution, the kris and associated institutions an adaptation to the special circumstances of serfdom
Note:PROBABILMENTE

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Marushiakova and Popov,
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Some Romani were tied to the land but others remained mobile, owing annual dues to their owner91 but with a considerable degree of both freedom and legal autonomy.
Note:DURANTE LA SCHIAVITÙ

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The Vlach Rom law enforcement system depends on a crucial feature of the marimé rules: contagion. The fact that marimé is contagious makes it in the private interest of each individual Rom to shun anyone infected with it.
Note:IPOTESI LEESON X SPIEGARE LE DIFFERENZE

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Since all non-Rom are carriers of marimé, the fact that it is contagious also blocks interaction with non-Rom and so makes the individual Rom dependent on his ability to associate with his fellow Rom. Thus contagious marimé solves, for the Vlach Rom, some of the problems of enforcing rules
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There are, Leeson argues, two major sources of intra-Rom conflict among the Vlach Rom—marriage relations, in particular disputes over the return of bride price when a marriage fails, and economic associations beyond the familia, the extended family. Neither exists among the Kaale. With no institution of marriage there is no issue of bride price. With economic interaction almost entirely within, not across, households, there are few opportunities for disputes across households.

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LA SITUAZIONE KAAL È BEN DIVERSA...PRESSO DI LORO NN ESISTE CONTAGIO

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The Kaale, with less need for mechanisms to enforce rules outside the household, have no institution of kris.
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“In private a woman may step over her husband’s clothes, pass in front of him, or touch him with her skirts, but she would be very ashamed to do this in public,
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Defensive Strategy
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Romani do not wish to be controlled by gaje.
Note:IL SEGRETO È X LORO UNA FORMA DI PROTEZIONE

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Romani, at least the Vlach Rom, the largest and most studied group, treat a name used in dealing with outsiders as fungible,
Note:IL NOME USATO X NN FARSI MONITORARE

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although the Nazis targeted Romani as well as Jews for extermination, they seem to have been considerably less successful in the former case.
Note:QUESTA CAPACITÀ DI SFUGGIRE SPIEGA MOLTE COSE....OLTRE 3/4 DI LORO SI SALVARONO

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centuries of experience in avoiding the prying questions of outsiders,
Note:LA VIRTÙ

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They delight in deceiving the gajo, mostly for a good reason, but sometimes just for the fun of it or to keep in practice.
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Anonymity and invisibility combined with intense secretiveness
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officially they do not exist.
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"Ho evitato deliberatamente di stabilirmi in piccoli villaggi perché erano pieni di persone molto aggressive e spiacevoli da frequentare. Era il loro modo per compensare la debolezza militare".

LA SCALA DEI VALORI

TRA I NOSTRI FRATELLI MAGGIORI

L’infamia più spregevole: la codardia.

Ovvero, l’esitazione nel vendicarsi o vendicare i propri cari.

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“I miei libri di testo di antropologia e i miei professori mi avevano insegnato che nelle "rare" occasioni in cui le tribù combattono, era per per assicurarsi alcune scarse risorse materiali come la terra coltivabile, l'acqua, eccetera… Questa verità è ora profondamente rivista, anche nella mia esperienza le tribù sono quasi sempre impegnate in faide e quasi sempre con l’obbiettivo di rapire le donne degli villaggi altrui.”

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Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes -- the Yanomamo and the Anthropologists (English Edition)

ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC MEMOIRS OF OUR TIME When Napoleon Chagnon arrived in Venezuela’s Amazon region in 1964 to study the Yanomamö Indians, one of the last large tribal groups still living in isolation, he expected to find Rousseau’s “noble savages,” so...

LA LOBBY DEGLI AFFARI
Non esiste. Non ci credo. 
O quanto meno è sopravvalutata. 
Di solito entra in azione giusto per ridurre al minimo il rischio legale o per decifrare regolamentazioni governative complesse. Roba da poco, spesso più che legittima.
Recentemente si è parlato di di quell’Arata che avrebbe fatto pressioni foraggiando un certo Siri per ottenere un emendamento a sostegno delle energie alternative. Capirai che impressione mi fa, mi viene da ridere. Con la marea montante di “grete” e “gretini” un emendamento del genere rappresenta una medaglia da sfoggiare per qualsiasi governo, non certo una pratica da tenere nascosta nell’armadio degli scheletri.
Sono invece sottovalutati i meriti storici della lobby affaristica, eccone tre, giusto per gradire:
1) Piani regolatori. Se il settore delle costruzioni non si stancasse di perorare il diritto a costruire, la regolamentazione avrebbe da tempo soffocato lo sviluppo e fatto esplodere i prezzi delle case (già oggi molto alti!). L’uomo della strada giudica male la costruzione di nuovi edifici: più traffico, più rumore, svalutazione delle altre case, danni all’ambiente…
2) Lo stesso vale per la regolamentazione del mercato del lavoro. L’uomo della strada stravede per salari minimi, restrizioni di licenziamento, sussidi obbligatori, eccetera. Ma queste imposizioni hanno effetti collaterali terribili, specialmente in termini di disoccupazione. Lo sa bene l’Europa che indulgendo in tentazioni del genere ha perso da 30 anni i suoi primati economici a danno degli USA.

3) Infine, non dimentichiamo l'immigrazione. Mentre il mondo degli affari di rado si batte apertamente per aprire le frontiere, nemmeno si oppone all'immigrazione esistente, di solito portando argomenti solidi.

Conclusione: in una democrazia il parere degli elettori pesa immensamente più di quello delle lobbies!

Ahimè, viene da dire in questo periodo.

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3 Raids and Revenge Why Villages Fission and Move The First Vengeance Raid Note:3@@@@@@@@ LA GUERRA PATA VS MONO+BISA

3 Raids and Revenge Why Villages Fission and Move The First Vengeance Raid
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there had been a bloody club fight the day before I arrived. Matowä, the hotheaded Monou-teri headman, had provoked it. He and his men had captured seven Patanowä-teri women and taken them to their village several hours to the south.
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The name changes were made to help them deny culpability for wrongs they wanted to associate with a group with a different name
Note:IL NOME E LA COLPA

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I knew I had to find out more about how these groups were interrelated and the specific reasons why they broke up.
Note:IL MSTERO CHE VOGLIAMO SCOPRIRE

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they were fighting over women. My anthropology textbooks and my professors had taught me that on the “rare” occasions that tribesmen fought, it was inevitably over some scarce material resource like cultivable land, water
Note:PRIMO MISTERO

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He was known to seduce the wives of other men in his own small village, and on one occasion, he even seduced the wife of one of his younger brothers. The young man was afraid to stand up to him and challenge him, so in his anger and frustration, he shot his own wife with an arrow.
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he and his group fissioned away from Kaobawä’s Bisaasi-teri group to form Monou-teri.
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the characteristic Machiavellian way that most Yanomamö
Note:VENDETTE COMPLOTTI CONGIURE FAIDE INFINITE

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Matowä’s group was about 60 people, and the Patanowä-teri group was about 225 at that time.
Note:MANU VS PATA

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he organized a raiding party against the powerful Patanowä-teri and set out to attack them by stealth and kill one or more of them.
Note:IL PIANO DI MATO

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painted their bodies black with masticated charcoal,
Note:PRIMA DELL ASSALTO

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The attacks usually come at dawn, giving the raiders a long period of daylight in which to retreat.
Note:QUANDO

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Thus in times of war there is much less meat at Yanomamö hearths.
Note:CACCIARE È RISCHIOSO

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Rasha trees have thousands of four-inch-long, rigid, very sharp spines sticking out from the entire length of their trunks.
Note:IL PRIMO BOSI LO FANNO FUORI MENTRE SI ARRAMPICA CON CAUTELA SU UNA PIANTA

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He was pierced by several arrows, fell some thirty feet from the tree, and died almost instantly.
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one of the raiders who shot an arrow into Bosibrei was married to one of his daughters!
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any Patanowä-teri raiders would have to cross the Mavaca, a major obstacle. To do so they would expose themselves and would lose the advantage of surprise.
Note:IL NUOVO VILLAGGIO MONO

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the Patanowä-teri’s revenge was swift, extraordinary, and lethal.
Note:DOPO L UCCISIONE DELL UOMO SULLA PALMA

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They deliberately targeted Matowä and went after him
Note:MIRATO

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They caught Matowä a short distance from the new gardens, searching for honey with two of his wives.
Note:L IMBOSCATE

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At least five arrows struck Matowä in his chest and abdomen. Although he was probably mortally wounded, he nocked one of his own arrows, cursed his assailants defiantly, and feebly shot back at them.
Note:MODALITÀ

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It flew true, striking Matowä in the neck, just below his ear.
Note:LA SECONDA SCARICA

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Bisheiwä, who shot the fatal arrow into Matowä’s neck, was one of Bosibrei’s sons.
Note:IN FAMIGLIA

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The raiders also included two men who called Matowä by the kinship term meaning brother;
Note:I CUGINI IM PRIMA FILA

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This underscores the fact that kinship is not an impediment to lethal violence,
Note:MORALE

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they were stunned and thoroughly demoralized by the death of their leader, their waiteri.
Note:CONSEG SUI MONO

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They mournfully cremated Matowä’s body the next day
Note:CENERI CONSUMATE DALLA TRIBÜ IN UNA ZUPPA VEGETALE

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Matowä’s two wives were taken by his brothers as additional wives,
Note:LA SORTE DELLE DONNE

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The Monou-teri then fled deep into the jungle to hide. This cowardice disgusted Matowä’s patrilineal relatives
Note:LA REAZIONE

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The Bisaasi-teri were furious that the Monou-teri displayed unforgivable cowardice by not pursuing the raiders and trying to kill at least some of them. To show fear and timidity is an invitation to others to further intimidate and exploit your group
Note:IL GIUDIZIO

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Kaobawä then assumed the responsibility of organizing a revenge raid against the Patanowä-teri.
Note:ALLA FINE

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Peace between Kaobawä’s faction of Bisaasi-teri and Patanowä-teri was now a very remote possibility
Note:PER COLPA DEL TESTA CALDA

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Despite the fact that Yanomamö villages at war are like modern nations at war, there is concern for kinsmen when they live in a village that is now a belligerent.
Note:PREOCCUPAZIONE DI KAWA IL CAPO BISA

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distinction between warrior and civilian is fuzzy in the Stone Age.
Note:GUERRE PRIMITIVE

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there is safety in numbers, so Yanomamö groups conscientiously attempt to maximize the size of their villages
Note:PRIMA PREOCCUPAZIONE

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Historically powerful groups like the Patanowä-teri have a special kind of problem: they become powerful by intimidating and harassing their neighbors,
Note:IL PROBLEMA DEI POTENTI

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these old enemies never forget and never forgive: they simply feign friendship and trust when they sporadically meet.
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Instead of spending time attempting to raid all of the relatively minor groups that were now attacking them with undeserved boldness, they concentrated their efforts on just a few of their more notable adversaries, like the large village of Hasuböwä-teri, just a day and a half to their east.
Note:LA STRATEGIA PATA

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steal women.
Note:L OGGETTO DI OGNI RAID COME DIO COMANDA

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everyone wept loudly, and plaintively called to their fallen kinsman with endearing kinship terms. It was very sad.
Note:FUNERALE

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Later in the day the raiders conducted a mock raid, a ceremonial rehearsal of what they hoped to do
Note:PROVE GENERALI

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Their anger, aggression, and determination were premeditated and resolute, not spontaneous like the sudden, aggressive bite or attack of a feline or canine predator. Each raider repeated this process until they were all standing in a straight line,
Note:PRELIMINARI

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I later learned that I was watching a ritual that the Yanomamö call wayu itou, the ritual pre-raid assembly of the raiders.
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Again the silence was suddenly broken, this time by a deep baritone voice slowly singing, “I am meat hungry! I am meat hungry! Like the carrion-eating vulture, I am hungry for flesh!”
Note:CANTI DI GUERRA

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The rest of the raiders repeated the lines of the song, ending the final word with a disturbing high-pitched scream.
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On reaching their hammocks, they all began to vomit and retch symbolically, making disgusting, loud puking noises. They were vomiting out the “rotten flesh” of the enemy
Note:IL VOMITO

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the Meat Hungry Vulture song,
Note:L INNO

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Let me emphasize the Yanomamö view that when members of a group acquire a reputation of timidity and cowardice, their neighbors take ruthless advantage of them, push them around, insult them publicly, and take their women. Thus it is strategically important to react decisively to any affront, no matter how trivial.
Note:LA COSA PEGGIORE CHE TI PUÒ CAPITARE

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I often deliberately avoided visiting small villages because they were predictably very aggressive and unpleasant to be around in order to compensate for their actual military weaknesses.
Note:QUEL XHE L ANTRIPOLOGO DEVE SAPERE

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The raiders were not gone a half day when a few of them began to return to the village. They complained of pains in their legs, or thorns in their feet.
Note:I GIOVANI

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I always felt very cold whenever the fire went out at any altitude, and it was much worse at higher elevations. The Yanomamö have no clothes or blankets, so they shivered uncomfortably all night long,
Note:LA NOTTE È TERRIBILE SENZA FUOCO

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Fire is what makes Yanomamö yahi tä rimö—different from beasts.
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their concern that the younger men might defect and turn back. The excuses would be fear of a nocturnal jaguar attack without a campfire, the cold, the sore feet—and any other plausible justification,
Note:ALTRO PROBLEMA

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It is acceptable to use as excuses injury, the cold, jaguar threats, sore feet, etc. and not admit you were afraid.
Note:STRANO

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On this particular raid they brought along a boy of about twelve years. He was Matarawä, Matowä’s oldest son. He was the youngest raider I ever saw on any of the raiding parties I witnessed. This would be his first raid: they wanted him to taste and enjoy the cold dish of revenge for the death of his father.
Note:LA VENDETTA....12 ANNI

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The women were nervous and irritable, and several bitter arguments broke out among them over trivial issues. One woman became very angry when her sister left her baby with her to babysit for a brief time.
Note:A CASA SI ASPETTA IN UNA CONDIZIONE DI VULNERABILITÀ...LE DONNE SI LEGNANO

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shortly after they dropped out and were headed home, Shararaiwä stepped on an arowari—a very poisonous snake—and was bitten by it.
Note:INCONVENIENTE SULLA RITIRATA BISA

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The rainy season had already begun, and the snakes were concentrating in the higher areas—where the Yanomamö trails usually were.
Note:PERICOLO ATTESO

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He had been shot with an arrow that was tipped with a lanceolate-shaped rahaka point. It had gone completely through his chest, just above his heart, and the tip of the point had protruded out of his back.
Note:LA VENDETTA DEI PATA CONTRO KONO UN MRMBRO DEI MONO

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Konoreiwä was coughing up blood filled with air bubbles, and he wheezed with each breath.
Note:MESSO MALE DURANTE IL TRASPORTO

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They asked me to “cure” him, that is, “treat” his wound. I thought Konoreiwä’s chances without major surgery were poor.
Note:APPELLO ALL UOMO BIANCO

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my first-aid skills had been putting about ten stitches into the mangled foot of Shiimima, one of Kaobawä’s brothers. He had wanted to see if there was a caiman in a submerged den he found in the bank of a small stream. He quickly found out that, indeed, there was a caiman in that hole, one who was ferociously
Note:IL MIO INTERVENTO MEDICO PIÙ SERIO

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The Yanomamö believe that when you are wounded with a rahaka-tipped arrow you can drink only minute quantities of water until you recover.

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CURA YANO

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keeping the entry and exit wounds clean and giving him antibiotics in an attempt to prevent infection.
Note:L UNICA CURA CHE CONOSCEVO

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Yanomamö customs and taboos that proscribed water be damned. I made a conscious decision to interfere in their culture—and I do not feel the least bit guilty for doing so.
Note:L INTERFERENZA...CRITICHE DEI COLLEGHI

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Thanks to his inherently superior constitution, and with a generous ration of mönasönö, Konoreiwä slowly recovered. My reputation as a curer increased further.
Note:GRANDE SUCCESSO

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Since they were now unokai—killers of men—they had to ritually purify themselves by undergoing a special ritual:
Note:SORTE DI CHI HA UCCISO

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an important, permanent, and earned status position in Yanomamö society: unokais.
Note:ASSASSINI

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The two unokais were given a special space in Kaobawä’s shabono, where they strung their hammocks.
Note:PRIVILEGI

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The unokaimou ceremony was, in almost all respects, nearly identical to the ceremony that pubescent girls went through when they had their first menses—the
Note:PURIFICAZIONE

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Unokais are both respected and somewhat feared because they have demonstrated a willingness to kill people and are likely to kill again.
Note:L ATTEGGIAMENTO

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many men who are not unokais seem to be compelled to behave in such a way as to imply that they are killers of men. Such men can be very obnoxious and unpleasant in their public lives—ordering people around, intimidating them, threatening to hit them with their machetes or axes, even threatening to kill them.
Note:LO SBRUFFONE

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This is the quality that leads ultimately to the power behind law: the odiousness of sanctions.
Note:VENDETTA TERRIBILE

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It began to be clearer to me that patrilineal descent—acknowledging membership in a patrilineal descent group called mashi—was important in Yanomamö political relationships.
Note:AL CENTRO

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What these Yanomamö descent groups control and defend are reproductive rights in nubile females and the male kin who give these women to you and take them from you according to rules of incest and marriageability. All additional “functions” of patrilineages are secondary and derived from these initial functions.
Note:IL FINE...NN LA RICCHEZZA

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The Monou-teri Raid
Note:Tttttttttttt

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They were in an extremely distressed and almost violent mood known as hushuwo.
Note:DURANTE LE CERIMONIE PREPARATIVE

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The children, who inevitably gather around my hammock, were told to go home and not bother me. The adults told the children that I was hushuwo, in a state of emotional disequilibrium, and that my soul was cold. To them I was finally acting like a human being, like a Yanomamö. The ones whose hammocks were close to mine quietly reached over to me, looked at me, and touched me gently. And we wept together.
Note:IDENTIFICAZIONE CON LA TRISTEZZA DEL VILLQAGGIO....GRANDE RISPETTO DEGLI INDIGENI

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In Yanomamö warfare the time to strike a new blow is when an enemy is temporarily down and struggling—and
Note:LA TATTICA E LA DIATRIBA INTERNA

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Machiavelli could have written The Prince about the political strategies of Yanomamö headmen and villages.
SOLITA STORIA

LA LEZIONE DEL CASO GUAIDO', CON TWITTER NON SI FANNO LE RIVOLUZIONI

LA LEZIONE DEL CASO GUAIDO', CON TWITTER NON SI FANNO LE RIVOLUZIONI

Se comando un' unità militare, anche se leggo un tweet ufficiale di Juan Guaidó che invita all'azione, non ho la possibilità di sapere con ragionevole certezza quante altre persone all'interno dell'esercito l'hanno visto e considerato seriamente.

Questo mi rende per forza di cose titubante, anche se sono dalla sua parte, anche se so che siamo in molti dalla sua parte.

Twitter non produce coordinamento e lascia tutti nella propria bolla.

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POPULISMO 2.0 = SINDROME DELL’AEREO + SINDROME DEL SOLE

POPULISMO 2.0 = SINDROME DELL’AEREO + SINDROME DEL SOLE

Avete presente quei tali che hanno paura di viaggiare in aereo? Non c’è motivo di aver paura, l’aereo è il mezzo di trasporto più sicuro, lo sanno anche loro. E allora perché?

Lo psicologo ci spiega che entrano in ansia perché non si sentono “IN CONTROLLO” della situazione.

Ecco, oggi viviamo in un mondo talmente complesso che molti di noi non si sentono “in controllo” della loro vita (ed entrano in ansia).

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Avete presente il bambino a cui dovete spiegare il tramonto del sole all’orizzonte? Ebbene, se gli dite che “il sole VUOLE scendere sotto l’orizzonte” lui accetterà senza problemi il vostro resoconto.

Lo psicologo ci dice che siamo predisposti ad accogliere più favorevolmente quelle spiegazioni in cui cio’ che succede viene imputato a un agente che intende fare qualcosa.

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L’ansia di chi non si sente “in controllo”, unita alla predisposizione a vedere le cose in termini di volontà occulte, genera il populismo 2.0: io non capisco quel che mi succede ma da qualche parte c’è qualcuno che capisce e mi manipola.

In parte è vero che esistano delle élite più competenti del popolino ma in gran parte questo è un mito infantile.

Il mercato, come il GPS (ovvero la tecnologia), richiedono abbandono e affidamento. Sono un po' come la Provvidenza. Ma, diversamente dalla vecchia Provvidenza, non dispongono di paramenti sacri appropriati, da qui il rifiuto populista.

LA VERA LOTTA

LA VERA LOTTA
A livello superficiale, potrebbe sembrare che la politica sia una lotta tra progressisti e tradizionalisti. Si tratta di una considerazione fuorviante, in quanto solo due gruppi contano davvero sul lungo termine: progressisti e libertari.
I tradizionalisti si limitano a rallentare il passo del cambiamento, ma in realtà non alterano il corso della storia. Un cattolico di oggi accetta tranquillamente cose che sarebbero ripugnanti per un cattolico di solo mezzo secolo fa.

Nel mondo libertario i tradizionalisti si garantirebbero comunque un’enclave che continuerebbe a proporre la loro visione e, alla lunga, su alcuni aspetti, potrebbero anche convertire la controparte. 

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