La Temperanza / Temperance
The Spider Dance - Tradition, Time, and Healing in Southern Italy - Giovanna Parmigiani
Giovanna Parmigiani [+]
Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University
Giovanna Parmigiani holds a Ph.D. in Socio-Cultural Anthropology from the University of Toronto, is a Lecturer on Religion and Cultural Anthropology at Harvard Divinity School and a Research Associate at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard University.
Description
In this chapter the author, by offering detailed ethnographic descriptions of family constellations and other spiritual practices, shows the possible connections between the "expanded present" historicity, well-being, and healing. In doing so, and in conversation with studies on relational ontologies and spirit possession, she shows how the experiences of her interlocutors could be read as a way to challenge neoliberal subjectivities, and to embody and imagine alternative ways of being.