AEMI

ELISA GOSSO
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Notes
1 Doctorate in Psychological, Anthropological and
Educational Sciences, Doctoral School in Human
and Social Sciences, University of Turin.
2 Ethnographic fieldwork was conducted in the
Waldensian community of Rohrbach-Wembach-Hahn
in Germany, the Waldensian Presbyterian
Church of Valdese, North Carolina, USA,
the Cardon Families Organization of the United
States and the Waldensian Church of the River
Plate in Uruguay and Argentina (Gosso 2015). In
this paper I focus on the case of Rohrbach-Wembach-Hahn.
3 Web site: http://www.waldenser.de.
4 It is the confirmation of the baptism received from
children, that establishes the entry into the community
of the church members.
5 The motto of the village, written on a bronze
plaque situated in the central square of Rohrbach,
declaims: Den Vätern zum treuen Gedenken, den
Kindern zur steten Erinnerung, that means ‘To the
Fathers, for a faithful thought. To the Children,
for a constant memory’.
6 A lighted candelabrum surrounded by seven stars
with the motto Lux lucet in tenebris, ‘Light shines
in the darkness’.
7 The costume consists of an ankle-length dress,
usually dark blue, black or purple. Around the
waist a silky and colored apron is tied with long
ribbons. On the shoulders it is used to wear a
white or black shawl, with long fringes and floral
embroidery on the back. The most characteristic
element of the Waldensian costume is the precious
bonnet, usually white for adults and black for the
girls who are not yet confirmed.
8 In Barth’s analysis, ‘diacritics’ are parameters that
the members of a group develop in order to found
a feeling of internal unity and to distinguish from
the others.