{"pk":40495,"title":"Of Tears and Tarantulas: Folk Religiosity, de Martino’s Ethnology, and the Italian South","subtitle":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the Italian ethnographer Ernesto de Martino’s investigation of ritual crying in Southern Italy, bringing to the fore the role ethnology was called to play as a new twentieth-century discipline that emerged from the forced encounter between powerful “advanced” nations and societies “without history.”  Ethnology sought to analyze the impact of cultural norms on a world increasingly polarized between the inevitable march towards rational modernity and the appeal of a magical pre-modern time.  For de Martino, in particular, ethnological research on popular religiosity and ritual crying exposed the peculiarities of Italy’s uneven development in the post-war years and became a means through which to rethink the Italian South.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial  4.0","short_name":"CC BY-NC 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"Ethnology"},{"word":"de Martino"},{"word":"ritual"},{"word":"Southern Italy"},{"word":"popular religiosity"}],"section":"The Sacred and Popular Religion","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7dw8v25r","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Simonetta","middle_name":"","last_name":"Falasca Zamponi","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Santa Barbara","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2013-09-02T22:52:31Z","date_accepted":"2013-09-02T22:52:31Z","date_published":"2015-06-09T23:47:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/40495/galley/30432/download/"}]}