ENGLISH

Magic: A Theory from the South

By Ernesto De Martino

Book information

Publisher
HAU Books
Year
2015
ISBN
9780990505099, 2014953636
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2304309 bytes)
Pages
\224
Time added
2021-03-14 23:02:01

Description

Contents Translator’s Note Preface PART ONE: Lucanian Magic 1. Binding 2. Binding and eros 3. The magical representation of illness 4. Childhood and binding 5. Binding and mother’s milk 6. Storms 7. Magical life in Albano PART TWO: Magic , Catholicism,and High Culture 8. The crisis of presence and magical protection 9. The horizon of the crisis 10. De-historifying the negative 11. Lucanian magic and magic in general 12. Lucanian magic and Southern Italian Catholicism 13. Magic and the Neapolitan Enlightenment: The phenomenon of jettatura 14. Romantic sensibility, Protestant polemic, and jettatura 15. The Kingdom of Naples and jettatura Epilogue Appendix: On Apulian tarantism References Index

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