Magic : a theory from the south /

"This new translation of Sud e magia, his 1959 study of ceremonial magic and witchcrafts in southern Italy, shows how de Martino is not interested in the question of whether magic is rational or irrational but rather in why it came to be perceived as a problem of knowledge in the first place. S...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: De Martino, Ernesto, 1908-1965 (Autor)
Otros Autores: Zinn, Dorothy Louise (Traductor, Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Italiano
Publicado: Chicago : Hau Books, [2015]
Temas:
Magic > Italy, Southern.
Folklore > Italy, Southern.
Medicine > Religious aspects.
Magic > history
Folklore > history
Ceremonial Behavior
Religion and Medicine
Disease > ethnology
Folklore > Italie > Mezzogiorno.
Médecine > Aspect religieux.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Parapsychology > General.
Medicine > Religious aspects
Folklore
Magic
Manners and customs
Volksglaube
Magie
Basilicata (Italy) > Social life and customs.
Italy > ethnology
Basilicate (Italie) > Mœurs et coutumes.
Italy > Basilicata
Southern Italy
Italien > Süd
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part One: Lucanian Magic
  • Chapter 1: Binding
  • Chapter 2: Binding and eros
  • Chapter 3: The magical representation of illness
  • Chapter 4: Childhood and binding
  • Chapter 5: Binding and mother's milk
  • Chapter 6: Storms
  • Chapter 7: Magical life in Albano
  • Part Two: Magic, Catholicism, and High Culture
  • Chapter 8: The crisis of presence and magical protection
  • Chapter 9: The horizon of the crisis
  • Chapter 10: De-historifying the negative
  • Chapter 11: Lucanian magic and magic in general
  • Chapter 12: Lucanian magic and Southern Italian Catholicism
  • Chapter 13: Magic and the Neapolitan Enlightenment: The phenomenon of jettatura
  • Chapter 14: Romantic sensibility, Protestant polemic, and jettatura
  • Chapter 15: The Kingdom of Naples and jettatura.

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