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Tarantism Revisited

Tarantism Revisited

Oct 29, 2024 1h 45m
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Apulia, 1959: Women in white dresses dance ecstatically in a small chapel. They jump around, roll on the ground, some even climb the altar. They are said to have been bitten by a spider. Their dancing mania requires a ritual exorcism with music. Pictures like these inspired Italian anthropologists to travel to southern Italy. Equipped with tape recorders, film and photo cameras, they tracked down the phenomenon of tarantism.

Title Tarantism Revisited
Companies EMB – Ethnographic Mediaspace Bern, Petit à Petit Cologne
Countries Germany, Switzerland
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