{"product_id":"power-and-magic-in-italy-9781845454821","title":"Power and Magic in Italy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tBased on vivid and colorful case studies about Mafiosi, priests, mothers, and migrants, the author offers new perspectives on the anthropology of religion and magic through categories of landscape, the body, human practice, and material experience. The focus on women as religious practitioners is linked to the idea of religion as a primary mode of production that creates and helps to maintain human reserves in a fast changing, male-dominated world. It is through this mechanism that the Catholic Church, the oldest existing bureaucratic agency of globalization, has maintained its power. Exploring aspects of spirit experiences, trance, the cult of saints, official ecclesiastical cults, and especially witchcraft, this book reveals the explosive, sometimes violent creativity of religion, its relation to magic, and its multi-facetted social value for humans as reflected in the religiously based, pragmatic realism of everyday life in the Mediterranean.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“Hauschild has produced a visceral ethnographic account from the perspective of healers that also subtly addresses questions about the production of ethnographic data.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Figures\u003cbr\u003e \tForeword\u003cbr\u003e \tPreface\u003cbr\u003e \tAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e Linda, the Woman Who Helps\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e Women, Men, Books\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e Vito and the Spirits\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Cursed\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e Bitter Truths\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Ancestral Line of the Magi\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/strong\u003e Can Priests Fly?\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Good Shepherd\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/strong\u003e Carnival\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Cement of Power\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Nightmare\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tBibliography\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042976956759,"sku":"9781845454821","price":89.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781845454821.jpg?v=1750956481","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/power-and-magic-in-italy-9781845454821","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}