Rosanna Sirignano: Popular wisdom and marriage customs in a Palestinian village: Proverbs and sayings in Hilma Granqvist ́s work Estratto da Studi Interculturali n. 2 del 2014 I am fully convinced that if we tried to look at reality with the eyes of the humble and uneducated then we would better understand our world. What is referred to as popular wisdom – proverbs, expressions, accounts, legends – provides us with invaluable teachings, advice and food for thought. In this article I present an aspect of social life in Artas, a little village in the Palestinian West Bank, through an exploration of a key aspect of the local folk cultural heritage: proverbs…

Rosanna Sirignano Mother and child in Palestine: the artas material in Hilma Granqvist nachlass at the Palestine exploration fund Estratto da Studi Interculturali n. 3 del 2013 Most part of the following article an extract from my BA and MA research work about the renowned anthropologist Hilma Granqvist’s contribution to our knowledge of Palestinian Arabic. Hilma Granqvist died in 1972 in Helsinki. Shortly after her death the Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF), with the valuable help of Shelagh Weir, acquired all the material resulting from Granqvist’s fieldwork in Palestine. Granqvist’s research represents an important contribution to ethno-anthropological studies of Palestine, because of the richness of the content and the detailed description of…