Research Catalog

Title

The land of remorse : a study of southern Italian tarantism / Ernesto De Martino, translated and annotated by Dorothy Louise Zinn; foreword by Vincent Crapanzano.

Author

De Martino, Ernesto, 1908-1965

Publication

London : Free Association, 2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

Zinn, Dorothy Louise.

Description

xxiii, 332 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Uniform Title

Terra del rimorso. English

Alternative Title

Terra del rimorso.

Subject

• Music Therapy
• Medicine, Traditional
• Ceremonial Behavior
• Spider Bites > therapy
• Dancing > psychology
• Tarantism
• Dance > Religious aspects
• Italy
• Italy, Southern > Social conditions
• Italy, Southern > Religious life and customs

Note

• Translation of: La terra del rimorso (Milan : Saggiatore, 1961).
• Includes bibliography and indexes.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 322-326) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / Vincent Crapanzano -- Translator's note / Dorothy Louise Zinn -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Tarantism and disease -- 3. The symbolic autonomy of tarantism -- 4. The inoperative symbol -- 5. Remorse in the dog days -- 6. Tarantism and the economy -- 7. Tarantism and Catholicism -- 8. The ritual setting and its objects -- 9. Choreutic-musical symbolism -- 10. The symbolism of color -- 11. The symbolism of season -- 12. The ritual in action and individual symbolism -- 13. The symbol of the Taranta -- Illustrations -- The choreutic cycle of Maria of Nardo -- The choreutic cycle of Rosaria of Nardo -- The symbolic reconstruction of the scene of the "first bite" -- Scenes in the chapel and in the street -- Forms analogous to apulian Tarantism in the Mediterranean world -- Going back in time -- 14. Parallels in ethnology and folklore -- 15. The symbolism of Oistros -- 16. The symbolism of Aioresis -- 17. The musical catharsis -- 18. The medieval origins of Tarantism -- 19. Tarantism, natural magic and the enlightenment -- 20. Towards a historicist perspective -- App. 1. Neuropsychiatric considerations on Tarantism / Giovanni Jervis -- App. 2. Problems of psychology in the study of Tarantism / Letizia Jervis-Comba -- App. 3. The choreutic-musical exorcism of Tarantism / Diego Carpitella -- App. 4. Data regarding the economic conditions of the Tarantati / Amalia Signorelli -- App. 5. Problems of intervention / Ernest De Martino and Vittoria De Palma.

ISBN

1853437840 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 62217272
• SCSB-11306344

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library