Giovanna Parmigiani: The Spider Dance
The Spider Dance
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- Tradition, Time, and Healing in Southern Italy
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- Equinox Publishing Ltd, 09/2024
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, Paperback
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781800505131
- Bestellnummer: 11879208
- Umfang: 298 Seiten
- Gewicht: 263 g
- Maße: 234 x 156 mm
- Stärke: 16 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 1.9.2024
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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Klappentext
The Spider Dance is based on ethnographic research among contemporary Pagan communities in Southern Italy (Salento, Apulia), and 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 twentieth 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
The Spider Dance
EUR 51,15*