Karen Lüdtke
Biographic Data
| ID | 6818531 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen Lüdtke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen |
| FAMILY NAME | Lüdtke |
| SIGNATURE | LÜDTKE K |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Dancing Cultures
Dances With Spiders
For centuries, the rite of the tarantula was the only cure for those ‘bitten’ or ‘possessed’ by the mythic Apulian spider. Its victims had to dance to the local tarantella or ‘pizzica’ for days on end. Today, the pizzica has returned to the limelight, bringing to the forefront issues of performance, gender, identity and well-being. This book explores how and why the pizzica has boomed in the Salento and elsewhere and asks whether this current pop…
Ethical Webs
The impact of research and publications on the communities studied by anthropologists raises crucial ethical issues. I discuss some of these issues here on the basis of my research experiences in Puglia. This Southern Italian region is sometimes described as a ‘landmark on the anthropological tourist map,’ due to the extensive interest that the curative tradition of tarantism, indigenous to this area, has attracted
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Ethical Webs
The impact of research and publications on the communities studied by anthropologists raises crucial ethical issues. I discuss some of these issues here on the basis of my research experiences in Puglia. This Southern Italian region is sometimes described as a ‘landmark on the anthropological tourist map,’ due to the extensive interest that the curative tradition of tarantism, indigenous to this area, has attracted
Dances With Spiders
For centuries, the rite of the tarantula was the only cure for those ‘bitten’ or ‘possessed’ by the mythic Apulian spider. Its victims had to dance to the local tarantella or ‘pizzica’ for days on end. Today, the pizzica has returned to the limelight, bringing to the forefront issues of performance, gender, identity and well-being. This book explores how and why the pizzica has boomed in the Salento and elsewhere and asks whether this current pop…
Dancing Cultures
Dance (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 work) · Arachnidism (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Biology (1 work) · Cartography (1 work) · Contemporary and Historical Greek Studies (1 work) · Dancing (1 work)