Humanities & Social Sciences
Magie und Macht in Italien / Magic and Power in Italy
Über Frauenzauber, Kirche und Politik / Witches, Church and Politics
by Thomas Hauschild
Description
An exciting book about Italy, the hidden power structures of the Catholic Church and the question of what is - after all post-modern discussion - essentially human
In the early 1980ies Thomas Hauschild started his anthropological fieldwork in Southern Italy. He discovered a kind of modern European shamanism, which has been in dialogue with the almighty Catholic Church for a long time. These traditions of magic, trance, and vision are kept as a form of religious daily life and are still very vivid.
Thomas Hauschild describes and explains rites of birth, life and death, how women and men make their living by healing, and how this regenerates local and national politics. Since the church was likely to loose control, it always tried to obliterate popular rituals and, by doing so, revitalized their powers even more.
This is a book against a ‘the politics of’ stance in anthropological reasoning that asks for the very processes through which political power is created and installed. Most remarkable: the language – “the sound” – of the book: although it deals with all the urgent questions of humanity it is never academic.
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Author Biography
Thomas Hauschild was born in (West) Berlin in 1955. He is now professor of ethnology in Halle after having tought at the University of Tübingen. Hauschild is the author and editor of several books and numerous articles about anthropology.
Merlin Verlag - Andreas Meyer Verlags GmbH & Co. KG
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- Publisher Merlin Verlag
- Orginal LanguageGerman
- ISBN/Identifier 9783875362329
- Publication Country or regionGermany
- FormatHardback
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
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