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The Spider Dance - Giovanna Parmigiani

The Spider Dance

Tradition, Time, and Healing in Southern Italy
Buch | Softcover
298 Seiten
2024
Equinox Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-80050-513-1 (ISBN)
CHF 46,95 inkl. MwSt
Based on ethnographic research among contemporary Pagan communities in Southern Italy (Salento, Apulia), The Spider Dance challenges (uni)linear ideas and experiences of time and temporality by showing the interconnectedness of alternative historicities, healing, and place-making among persons engaged in Pagan practices.
Based on ethnographic research among contemporary Pagan communities in Southern Italy (Salento, Apulia), The Spider Dance challenges (uni)linear ideas and experiences of time and temporality by showing the interconnectedness of alternative historicities, healing, and place-making among persons engaged in reviving, continuing, or re-creating traditional Pagan practices. The Spider Dance looks at local Pagans and at their ritual practice and interpretation of the traditional dance and music called pizzica. Pizzica is associated with tarantismo, a phenomenon present in that area for hundreds of years and attested until the second half of the XX century. Affecting mostly (but not only) women, tarantismo has been described in the form of malaise and physical suffering thought to be provoked by the bite of tarantula spiders and cured with pizzica music and dance. At the turn of the century tarantismo disappeared and new forms, called neotarantismi, emerged. The Spider Dance describes a novel "spiritual" form of neotarantismo and highlights its connections with contemporary forms of magic and healing. The relevance of The Spider Dance is not limited to a description of particular Pagan groups and practices. It also makes some key practical and theoretical contributions to the anthropological study of magic, of contemporary religions, of "historicities," and to scholarly debates around complementary medicine and "well-being," in Italy and abroad.

Giovanna Parmigiani holds a Ph.D. in Socio-Cultural Anthropology from the University of Toronto, is a Lecturer on Religion and Cultural Anthropology at Harvard Divinity School and a Research Associate at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard University.

Preface




Chapter 1. Il Matto/The
Fool




Chapter 2. Il Mago/The
Magician




Chapter 3. La Papessa/The
High Priestess




Chapter 4.
L’Imperatrice/The Empress




Chapter 5. La
Temperanza/Temperance




Conclusions. Il Mondo/The
World




Appendix: Resources on
Pizzica and Tarantismo

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Contemporary and Historical Paganism
Zusatzinfo 10 black and white figures
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Gewicht 263 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie Esoterik / Spiritualität
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Altertum / Antike
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Weitere Religionen
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-80050-513-2 / 1800505132
ISBN-13 978-1-80050-513-1 / 9781800505131
Zustand Neuware
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