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Dances with Spiders : Crisis, Celebrity and Celebration in Southern Italy / Karen Lüdtke.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Epistemologies of Healing ; 4Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781845454456
  • 9781845458751
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 793.319457
LOC classification:
  • GV1796.T32 L84 2009
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction: Tarantula Territory -- Part I Past and Present Spider Webs -- Chapter 1 Seeking St Paul: Historical and Contemporary Enactments -- Chapter 2 Webs through Time: Origins and History of Tarantism -- Part II The Spider’s Cult Today -- Chapter 3 Curing Myths and Fictive Cures: Views of Believers and Sceptics -- Chapter 4 Ads and Antidotes: Celebrity versus Conservation -- Chapter 5 Sensing Identities and Well-being: Personal Motivations and Experiences -- Part III From Ritual to Limelight -- Chapter 6 Spider WoMen Transfixed: Negotiating Crisis and Cure -- Chapter 7 Tarantula Threads and Showbiz Airs: Fine-tuning Performances -- Chapter 8 SpiderWoMen Transformed: Celebrating Well-being -- Part IV Conclusion -- Chapter 9 Dancing Beyond Spiders -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Index
Summary: For centuries, the rite of the tarantula was the only cure for those ‘bitten’ or ‘possessed’ by the mythic Apulian spider. Its victims had to dance to the local tarantella or ‘pizzica’ for days on end. Today, the pizzica has returned to the limelight, bringing to the forefront issues of performance, gender, identity and well-being. This book explores how and why the pizzica has boomed in the Salento and elsewhere and asks whether this current popu- larity has anything to do with the historic ritual of tarantism or with the intention of recovering well-being. While personal stories and experiences may confirm the latter, a vital shift has appeared in the Salento: from the confrontation of life crises to the vibrant promotion and celebration of a local sense of identity and celebrity.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction: Tarantula Territory -- Part I Past and Present Spider Webs -- Chapter 1 Seeking St Paul: Historical and Contemporary Enactments -- Chapter 2 Webs through Time: Origins and History of Tarantism -- Part II The Spider’s Cult Today -- Chapter 3 Curing Myths and Fictive Cures: Views of Believers and Sceptics -- Chapter 4 Ads and Antidotes: Celebrity versus Conservation -- Chapter 5 Sensing Identities and Well-being: Personal Motivations and Experiences -- Part III From Ritual to Limelight -- Chapter 6 Spider WoMen Transfixed: Negotiating Crisis and Cure -- Chapter 7 Tarantula Threads and Showbiz Airs: Fine-tuning Performances -- Chapter 8 SpiderWoMen Transformed: Celebrating Well-being -- Part IV Conclusion -- Chapter 9 Dancing Beyond Spiders -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Index

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For centuries, the rite of the tarantula was the only cure for those ‘bitten’ or ‘possessed’ by the mythic Apulian spider. Its victims had to dance to the local tarantella or ‘pizzica’ for days on end. Today, the pizzica has returned to the limelight, bringing to the forefront issues of performance, gender, identity and well-being. This book explores how and why the pizzica has boomed in the Salento and elsewhere and asks whether this current popu- larity has anything to do with the historic ritual of tarantism or with the intention of recovering well-being. While personal stories and experiences may confirm the latter, a vital shift has appeared in the Salento: from the confrontation of life crises to the vibrant promotion and celebration of a local sense of identity and celebrity.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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