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⤷ superstition, mediterranean cultures, exorcism dances and ritual chanting, death
⤷food
⤷translation, commercialisation, migration
⤷ De Martino magical thinking, anthropological overview
⤷ religion + cultish behaviour
⤷ contemporary rituals
⤷anthropology and ethnography supported by new multimedia languages, anthropology of the contemporary

I enter my land dead, oozing with despair. I can't really reabsorb anything here, unfortunately I breathe. I have to write everything down, if I write everything down I feel I can still be real, if I keep writing from these rooftops nothing will happen. Writewritewrite ritualsritualsrituals

Femina - Coro a Coro, Canti e Incanti, Voci in Ascolto

Apulia gateway to the East, "porta d'Oriente", land of migrants, crossroads of men, of people who flee and then return. Discovering Coro a Coro would soothe anyone's wounds. it is interesting to discover how silently fervent the art scene in Salento really is. I found myself in these meetings where many were young like me, all with their families rooted in the land, and they instead ran away, out of disappointment and need, free souls, weirdly nice people :)) I have never sung in my life, much less in a choir. I found myself singing in a dialect I do not speak, in Arabic, Albanian, Greek and in Italian, which seemed to me the most incomprehensible language of all. All in a circle, soothing the distances.

Celebration, ritual and healing.
Done:
Introduction to Maquams, Mawashahat, rhythmic patterns and oriental singing.

The Muwashah (plural of Muwashahat) serves as a vocal passage within the wasla, an integral part of the classical Arabic repertoire, a musical form born in Aleppo in the XVII century

Alan Lomax, Eugenio Barba, Odin Teatret, The living archive

https://fondazionebarbavarley.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/LA-FLIS-LIVING-ARCHIVE-ITA.pdf
https://fondazionebarbavarley.org/en/laflis/
Panofsky?

the Destorification of the negative, De Martino + Signorinelli

-you keep repeating stuff, cleancleanclean-

Destorification connected, from a philosophical and anthropological point of view, to the ethos of transcendence and the crisis of presence, applied to subaltern cultures (cultural exclusivism, and hegemonic cultures) a concept that can also be re-actualised by associating it with alienation in Marx and in Feuerbach.

How can destorification be extended to contemporary social phenomena? How to interpret the present rituals and its symbolic language?

Destorification is a protective occultation of the historicity of existence, where destorification means mystification/alienation from the present, from time and thus from History. Man 'makes history', constructs it, chooses what he wants to valorise, but when this capacity threatens the ethos, man, in order to protect himself, destorifies his 'making history' and institutes the mythical-ritual medium, thus dissociation from the present takes place. Through the mystification of history by the mythical-ritual symbol, man can escape the protruding situations, the unpredictable, the becoming. Man stands in history as if he were not there, finding refuge in a metahistorical plane, placed above it.

The destorification of the negative allows the universalisation of one's condition in a mythical-symbolic dimension, mediated by religion and ritual. Myth is narration, ritual is behaviour repeated with words and gestures of symbolic meaning. The whole then becomes a circuit aimed at resolving the crisis. When the negative prevails, there is a crisis, of existential misery simply called, in which the ethos of transcendence can no longer resolve the inner evil and pain transcends its own position, causing the individual to lose his conception of reality and the deconstruction of his own being.

The symbolic universes, which human groups have produced to date, have mostly had magical-religious cultural content. Magic and religion already rest on the idea of the existence of a transcendent world, which nourishes itself. Religion is a 'protective technique mediating values', capable of creating regimes of protected existence, above chaos, to counter the risk of passing with what passes (Károly Kerényi). Kosmoi that are isolated from the larger kosmos that is history. Religion with its symbolic stratagems contrasts the unrelated destorification (clinical madness) with the institutional destorification of becoming, the creation of a unitary, limited and limiting cosmos, a beautiful enclosure full of flowers.

In contemporary societies that pretend to be secularised, the destorification of the negative through magical-religious symbolism has not disappeared, on the contrary, it is reinforced by the development of symbolic languages that invest the spheres of economics (symbolic, conspicuous consumption) of politics (apocalyptic-millenarian projects, but also the figure of the leader and his charisma), of recreation and leisure (popularity and its allure, group membership and conflict, narcissistic exhibitionism and the 'symbolic' achievement of success, protagonism, individual affirmation).

Magic of the South

crisis of the presence

ideology of the compromise stiches and knots rituality symbolism pagan catholic syncretism

ethnographic research about the still present cultural forms, visible in new configurations, apotropaic and religious practices adressing moments of crisis, or cultural revival s such as the one currently turning the magical misfortune of an unmamable, infested villages into touristic destinations. To clarify the extent to which there are still some continuities between magic and religion as discussed here and the mechanisms by which we face "crises of presence" in our modern society.

magic vs rationality as one of the greatest theme that gave rise to the western civilization. From demonology to natural reinaissance magic. Southern catholicism withh its notes of gaudiness and exteriority, with its particular ceremonial and ritualistic flourished. Ceremonial magic, its psychological function. Links, passages, syncretisms, and compromises that connect extracanonical low magic with the modes of popular devotion and the liturgy's own official forms.

Jettatura ideology of compromise not the same as fascinazione (dark binding)

low forms of of cerimonial magic, not only formed by relics of archaic rituals, that sharply reveal the structural and functional features of the magical moment refined and sublimated also present in catholicism, but also by the particular magical tone of southern catholicism, crudeness and elementary quality,

euro mediterranean folkloristic data, crisis of mourning, hegemonic until the advent of catholicism.

Knot symbolism and primitive magic

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Cults, New religions and internet

prey on the vulnerable, growth industry.

Freedom of Mind by Steven Hassan
Cults In Our Midst by Margaret Singer
Aleister Crowley - The Paris Working
Alternative Spiritualities, New Religions, and The Reenchantment of the West by Christopher Partridge
Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism by Robert Jay Lifton
Esotericism in New Religious Movements by Olav Hammer
Virtually Religious: New Religious Movements and the World Wide Web by Douglas E. Cowan and Jeffrey K. Hadden
Something Peculiar about France: Anti-Cult Campaigns in Western Europe and French Religious Exceptionalism by Massimo Introvigne
Egyptian Book of The Dead
Witches, Wiccans, and Neo-Pagans: A Review of Current Academic Treatments of Neo-Paganism by Síân Lee Reid and Shelley Tsivia Rabinovitch
https://ia802202.us.archive.org/35/items/ThoughtReformAndThePsychologyOfTotalism/Thought_Reform_and_the_Psychology_of_Totalism.pdf

getting into a fucking cult

They may have perceived me as a defective piece already. Nope nope, we should do better than this.






abbattimento ulivi science, conspiracy, courts, blocking, pest risk, EFSA Getting used to death, land of remorse", abandonment, economic collapse, climate change, fires http://www.ecomuseipuglia.net/ Chiesa dei diavoli a Tricase (LE)? https://www.manifattureknos.org/knos/ Sudestudio http://sudestudio.com/en/ https://www.pugliasounds.it/en/

Jean Marc Caimi - Valentina Piccinini

Rachele Andrioli Coro a Coro Finisterre ?POC Puglia 2007-2013 – Azione Sviluppo di Attività Culturali e dello Spettacolo?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR0GaHM4aMQ&ab_channel=LUCADePaolis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UssmrM_uSxY&ab_channel=NottedellaTaranta (grico - italian/greek dialect)

Porte d'Oriente, Accademia di Belle Arti Lecce + Venezia https://boa.unimib.it/retrieve/e39773b6-9cdd-35a3-e053-3a05fe0aac26/phd_unimib_818149.pdf Bicocca study Land Art - Parco dei Giganti, Nardò, Ulderico Tramacere, Massimo Donati (mappatura digitale interattiva del Campo dei Giganti) Via Francigena salentina -- Via dell’Olio

si recuperano i cocci, tardi -> https://www.csvbrindisilecce.it/2023/03/20/basiliche-degli-ulivi-un-invito-alla-piantumazione/ "Del resto, l’associazione Legno di Vaia è fra i partner del progetto di Arci-Biblioteca di Sarajevo proprio perché il Salento e le Dolomiti sono i luoghi in cui in Italia si è verificata una vera catastrofe vegetale che ha reso necessario tentare di recuperare almeno il legno delle piante distrutte “.

Alfredo Panzini's Dizionario moderno ("Modern Dictionary") in 1950 Racism, xenophobia, Lombroso, Niceforo,

De Martino path terra/magia - traditional folklore, mediterranean knots, italian soft power, pizzica/taranta/exorcism culture commercialisation, survival Catholicism, womanhood,

Progetti di Rigenerazione Urbana e Territoriale ReGerOP

Alan Lomax https://archive.culturalequity.org/collections?search_api_fulltext=&member_of_op=empty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLcMrQhaQKY&list=PLjTm5BQoe47kvPq_WmNdkBvK5mYcDBAH2 Ernesto De Martino: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA9nNrfqog0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaJcpNT-cqc
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1005551410889 Ontology formulated by integrating Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology, Yuasa Yasuo's Eastern-based phenomenology of the body, and Psychoneuroimmunology In each of these accounts of embodiment, the flesh is revealed as simultaneously consisting of presence and absence, incarnation and transcendence, being and consciousness. As a result, the Heideggerian approach to ethics, which is based upon the relationship we have with being, can be realized on many levels of embodiment. This makes the cultivation of a holistic ethos more feasible. Such an ethos overcomes the shortcomings in Heidegger's ethics and, in particular, those revealed by Levinas, Levin, Krell, and Caputo.