Magic: A Theory from the South

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Author(s): Ernesto de Martino
Publisher: Hau Books
Year: 2015

Language: English
City: Chicago

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