Bellezza, Felicità e Diversità Culturale

Riflessioni e prassi per una antropologia delle istituzioni nel contemporaneo

Abstract

The combination of Beauty and Happiness can be bold. The two terms belong to everyday language but their philosophical, sociolinguistic and anthropological heritage is long-standing. The proposal to connect UNESCO thematic tools and visions with the studies proposed by the World Happiness Report, intends to open scenarios for reflection and discussion on the conceptualization and production of "cultural" in the contemporary. Culture, no longer declined only in the definition of heritage, material and immaterial, is influenced by the progressive use of multi-agent technological systems, mediators of representativeness and continuous symbolic and value codification between individuals, groups and contexts. This contribution, in fact, intends to highlight how the structural and relational diversity of cultural expressions is increasingly broadly indexed, in well-being and life-being factors on a global demographic scale.