Sabina Magliocco
Biographic Data
| ID | 95561 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sabina Magliocco |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sabina |
| FAMILY NAME | Magliocco |
| SIGNATURE | MAGLIOCCO S |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, Northridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Fairies, Environmental Justice, and Re-Enchantment in Modern Pagan Narratives
This paper examines contemporary Pagan narratives about fairies, revealing themes of re-enchantment, environmental grief, and environmental justice. In these narratives, fairies are often portrayed as nature spirits and protectors of the environment who warn humans of impending disaster and suggest techniques for re-enchanting the physical environment through practices that create reciprocal relationships between humans and nature, change conscio…
Leonard Norman Primiano (1957-2021)
The folklore world has lost a leading light with the death of Leonard Norman Primiano (1957–2021). Leonard was a major contributor to the development of a theory of religion in folklore studies. His methodological and theoretical developments reflected the influence of the postmodern critique in the social sciences and humanities. He focused primarily on lived religion—religion as it is experienced in everyday life by practitioners—as well as on …
Magic and Politics
This essay introduces a special issue of Nova Religio on magic and politics in the United States in the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election. The articles in this issue address a gap in the literature examining intersections of religion, magic, and politics in contemporary North America. They approach political magic as an essentially religious phenomenon, in that it deals with the spirit world and attempts to motivate human behavior throu…
Witchcraft as Political Resistance
The use of political magic is one of the remarkable and unexpected cultural features to emerge from the 2016 presidential election in the United States. Using a combination of digital and face-to-face ethnography, this article explores the emergence of a movement dedicated to resisting the Donald Trump administration through witchcraft and magic. Applying the lens of Italian ethnologist Ernesto de Martino, it argues that the 2016 election created…
Beyond the Rainbow Bridge: Vernacular Ontologies of Animal Afterlives
To what extent do modern Westerners imagine animals as spiritual beings? How do they view animals' interiority compared with their own? In this article, I explore vernacular ontologies about animals that exist alongside dominant Western notions. In these narratives, animals are portrayed as having interiority similar to that of humans, living on after death in spiritual form, and interacting with humans as messengers from spiritual realms. My fin…
Folklore and the Animal Turn
This essay introduces a special issue of the Journal of Folklore Research (55–2) dedicated to folklore studies and the "animal turn," a movement among scholars from various disciplines to explore the shifting boundary between human and nonhuman animals and its ethical implications. Building on the pioneering work of folklorist Jay Mechling, the authors use a folkloristic approach to examine the human-animal relationship from the point of view of …
Invented Religions: Imagination, Fiction and Faith. By Carole M. Cusack
The era around the beginning of the third millennium has been marked by a significant decrease in adherence to institutionalized religions, and a growth in New Religious Movements (NRMs) and individualized forms of spirituality, often defined by both practitioners and scholars in contrast to organized religion. Among the more interesting and least studied NRMs are what Carole M. Cusack calls “invented religions.” These are, by her definition, rel…
Roman Restaurant Rhythms. Michael Herzfeld, prod. Color. 38 min. Berkeley: Berkeley Media LLC, 2011
Rountree, Kathryn: Crafting Contemporary Pagan Identities in a Catholic Society
Anthropos , Seite 297 - 298
Indigenousness and Politics of Spirituality
Witching Culture: Folklore and Neo-Paganism in America
Raising the Devil: Satanism, New Religions, and the Media (review)
Despite the recent proliferation of legend scholarship and the resulting widespread awareness that legends are part of legend complexes that interact in intricate ways with social reality and the mass media, very few scholars have attempted what Bill Ellis does in this book: the careful, methodical study of a legend complex and its interaction with the surrounding context—social, historical, and global. The satanic legend complex of the late 1980…
Lucifer Ascending: The Occult in Folklore and Popular Culture
Did You Hear About the Girl Who…? Contemporary Legends, Folklore and Human Sexuality (review)
Siblings Mariamne H. Whatley, a biologist, and Elissa R. Henken, a folklorist, have produced an outstanding example of applied folklore and interdisciplinary collaboration in this book. Although folklore and biology may appear to have little in common at first glance, this project demonstrates how folklore methodology and analysis can be applied to benefit any number of other fields. It grew out of the two scholars' sharing of stories and questio…
Did You Hear about the Girl Who…? Contemporary Legends, Folklore and Human Sexuality
Book Review| October 01 2003 Did You Hear about the Girl Who...? Contemporary Legends, Folklore and Human Sexuality Did You Hear about the Girl Who...? Contemporary Legends, Folklore and Human Sexuality, Mariamne H. Whatley and Elissa R. Henken. Sabina Magliocco Sabina Magliocco Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2003) 116 (462): 489–490. https://doi.org/10.2307/4137765 Cite Icon Cite Share Ic…
The Opposite of Right Society Witches, Terrorists and the Discourse of Evil
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Who Was Aradia? The History and Develpment of a Legend
Legends are extraordinarily responsive to social change; in fact, they are one of the most sensitive indices of transformations in cultural values and worldview
Neo-Pagan Sacred Art and Altars: Making Things Whole
Neo-Pagan Sacred Art and Altars: Making Things Whole. By Sabina Magliocco. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2001. Pp. xii + 76, preface, notes, bibliography, photographs. $40.00 cloth, $18.00 paper) Sabina Magliocco's empathic narrative discloses the secretive and often misunderstood world of through a close look at its material culture-its shrines, masks, and body adornments. She shows ways in which practitioners and ascribe personal m…
Coordinates of Power and Performance: Festivals as Sites of (Re)Presentation and Reclamation in Sardinia
This article examines festivals and related forms of public culture in Sardinia as performance events which construct and negotiate meanings for both hosts (the dominated culture, in the case of Sardinia) and guests (tourists), serving as sites for the creation of identity and authenticity. It documents the emergence of “festival reclamation,” a phenomenon in which subjugated groups reclaim or reappropriate (re)presentations of them created by th…
Spells, Saints, and Streghe: Witchcraft, Folk Magic, and Healing in Italy
There is a rich body of ethnographic data on folk magical practices and beliefs from Italy, but for the most part Italian American Witches have not drawn from this in recreating their traditions
The Real Old-Time Religion: Towards an Aesthetics of Neo-Pagan Song
This paper, based on dialogic fieldwork and close collaboration between the ethnographer and the tradition-bearers, examines Wiccan and Neo-Pagan musical performance practice. In the absence of a single unifying text or body of beliefs, songs may actually serve to codify and diffuse a shared set of principles in Wiccan and Neo-Pagan folk culture. The paper delineates various categories of songs, examines their role in Wiccan and Neo-Pagan ritual,…
Sardinian Chronicles
Out of the Ordinary: Folklore and the Supernatural
Out of the Ordinary: Folklore and the SupernaturaL Edited by Barbara Walker. (Logan: Utah State University Press, 1995. Pp. x+ 218, selected bibliography, index. $34.95 cloth, $19.95 paper) Until now, most edited collections on the have been written from a historical, anthropological, or sociological perspective. Folkloristic work on this theme has for the most part been tucked away in journals, making it inaccessible to the general reader and cu…
Manufacturing Tales: Sex and Money in Contemporary Legends
Folklore and Language Teaching: Preliminary Remarks and Practical Suggestions
The ultimate goal of teaching language is to teach something about the culture in which that language is spoken. Yet especially at the elementary levels of instruction, it is easy to lose sight of this goal as students struggle with the most basic aspects of language. What is the difference between the imperfect and the past perfect; how are the impersonal pronouns used; does the rather sleepy-looking student in the back row even know what an imp…
Out of the Ordinary: Folklore and the Supernatural
Out of the Ordinary: Folklore and the SupernaturaL Edited by Barbara Walker. (Logan: Utah State University Press, 1995. Pp. x+ 218, selected bibliography, index. $34.95 cloth, $19.95 paper) Until now, most edited collections on the have been written from a historical, anthropological, or sociological perspective. Folkloristic work on this theme has for the most part been tucked away in journals, making it inaccessible to the general reader and cu…
Folklore and the Animal Turn
This essay introduces a special issue of the Journal of Folklore Research (55–2) dedicated to folklore studies and the "animal turn," a movement among scholars from various disciplines to explore the shifting boundary between human and nonhuman animals and its ethical implications. Building on the pioneering work of folklorist Jay Mechling, the authors use a folkloristic approach to examine the human-animal relationship from the point of view of …
Spells, Saints, and Streghe: Witchcraft, Folk Magic, and Healing in Italy
There is a rich body of ethnographic data on folk magical practices and beliefs from Italy, but for the most part Italian American Witches have not drawn from this in recreating their traditions
Beyond the Rainbow Bridge: Vernacular Ontologies of Animal Afterlives
To what extent do modern Westerners imagine animals as spiritual beings? How do they view animals' interiority compared with their own? In this article, I explore vernacular ontologies about animals that exist alongside dominant Western notions. In these narratives, animals are portrayed as having interiority similar to that of humans, living on after death in spiritual form, and interacting with humans as messengers from spiritual realms. My fin…
Neo-Pagan Sacred Art and Altars: Making Things Whole
Neo-Pagan Sacred Art and Altars: Making Things Whole. By Sabina Magliocco. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2001. Pp. xii + 76, preface, notes, bibliography, photographs. $40.00 cloth, $18.00 paper) Sabina Magliocco's empathic narrative discloses the secretive and often misunderstood world of through a close look at its material culture-its shrines, masks, and body adornments. She shows ways in which practitioners and ascribe personal m…
Who Was Aradia? The History and Develpment of a Legend
Legends are extraordinarily responsive to social change; in fact, they are one of the most sensitive indices of transformations in cultural values and worldview
Folklore and Language Teaching: Preliminary Remarks and Practical Suggestions
The ultimate goal of teaching language is to teach something about the culture in which that language is spoken. Yet especially at the elementary levels of instruction, it is easy to lose sight of this goal as students struggle with the most basic aspects of language. What is the difference between the imperfect and the past perfect; how are the impersonal pronouns used; does the rather sleepy-looking student in the back row even know what an imp…
Folklore and Language Teaching: Preliminary Remarks and Practical Suggestions
The ultimate goal of teaching language is to teach something about the culture in which that language is spoken. Yet especially at the elementary levels of instruction, it is easy to lose sight of this goal as students struggle with the most basic aspects of language. What is the difference between the imperfect and the past perfect; how are the impersonal pronouns used; does the rather sleepy-looking student in the back row even know what an imp…
Manufacturing Tales: Sex and Money in Contemporary Legends
Out of the Ordinary: Folklore and the Supernatural
Out of the Ordinary: Folklore and the SupernaturaL Edited by Barbara Walker. (Logan: Utah State University Press, 1995. Pp. x+ 218, selected bibliography, index. $34.95 cloth, $19.95 paper) Until now, most edited collections on the have been written from a historical, anthropological, or sociological perspective. Folkloristic work on this theme has for the most part been tucked away in journals, making it inaccessible to the general reader and cu…
The Real Old-Time Religion: Towards an Aesthetics of Neo-Pagan Song
This paper, based on dialogic fieldwork and close collaboration between the ethnographer and the tradition-bearers, examines Wiccan and Neo-Pagan musical performance practice. In the absence of a single unifying text or body of beliefs, songs may actually serve to codify and diffuse a shared set of principles in Wiccan and Neo-Pagan folk culture. The paper delineates various categories of songs, examines their role in Wiccan and Neo-Pagan ritual,…
Sardinian Chronicles
Spells, Saints, and Streghe: Witchcraft, Folk Magic, and Healing in Italy
There is a rich body of ethnographic data on folk magical practices and beliefs from Italy, but for the most part Italian American Witches have not drawn from this in recreating their traditions
Coordinates of Power and Performance: Festivals as Sites of (Re)Presentation and Reclamation in Sardinia
This article examines festivals and related forms of public culture in Sardinia as performance events which construct and negotiate meanings for both hosts (the dominated culture, in the case of Sardinia) and guests (tourists), serving as sites for the creation of identity and authenticity. It documents the emergence of “festival reclamation,” a phenomenon in which subjugated groups reclaim or reappropriate (re)presentations of them created by th…
Who Was Aradia? The History and Develpment of a Legend
Legends are extraordinarily responsive to social change; in fact, they are one of the most sensitive indices of transformations in cultural values and worldview
Neo-Pagan Sacred Art and Altars: Making Things Whole
Neo-Pagan Sacred Art and Altars: Making Things Whole. By Sabina Magliocco. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2001. Pp. xii + 76, preface, notes, bibliography, photographs. $40.00 cloth, $18.00 paper) Sabina Magliocco's empathic narrative discloses the secretive and often misunderstood world of through a close look at its material culture-its shrines, masks, and body adornments. She shows ways in which practitioners and ascribe personal m…
Did You Hear About the Girl Who…? Contemporary Legends, Folklore and Human Sexuality (review)
Siblings Mariamne H. Whatley, a biologist, and Elissa R. Henken, a folklorist, have produced an outstanding example of applied folklore and interdisciplinary collaboration in this book. Although folklore and biology may appear to have little in common at first glance, this project demonstrates how folklore methodology and analysis can be applied to benefit any number of other fields. It grew out of the two scholars' sharing of stories and questio…
Did You Hear about the Girl Who…? Contemporary Legends, Folklore and Human Sexuality
Book Review| October 01 2003 Did You Hear about the Girl Who...? Contemporary Legends, Folklore and Human Sexuality Did You Hear about the Girl Who...? Contemporary Legends, Folklore and Human Sexuality, Mariamne H. Whatley and Elissa R. Henken. Sabina Magliocco Sabina Magliocco Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2003) 116 (462): 489–490. https://doi.org/10.2307/4137765 Cite Icon Cite Share Ic…
The Opposite of Right Society Witches, Terrorists and the Discourse of Evil
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Witching Culture: Folklore and Neo-Paganism in America
Raising the Devil: Satanism, New Religions, and the Media (review)
Despite the recent proliferation of legend scholarship and the resulting widespread awareness that legends are part of legend complexes that interact in intricate ways with social reality and the mass media, very few scholars have attempted what Bill Ellis does in this book: the careful, methodical study of a legend complex and its interaction with the surrounding context—social, historical, and global. The satanic legend complex of the late 1980…
Lucifer Ascending: The Occult in Folklore and Popular Culture
Indigenousness and Politics of Spirituality
Roman Restaurant Rhythms. Michael Herzfeld, prod. Color. 38 min. Berkeley: Berkeley Media LLC, 2011
Rountree, Kathryn: Crafting Contemporary Pagan Identities in a Catholic Society
Anthropos , Seite 297 - 298
Invented Religions: Imagination, Fiction and Faith. By Carole M. Cusack
The era around the beginning of the third millennium has been marked by a significant decrease in adherence to institutionalized religions, and a growth in New Religious Movements (NRMs) and individualized forms of spirituality, often defined by both practitioners and scholars in contrast to organized religion. Among the more interesting and least studied NRMs are what Carole M. Cusack calls “invented religions.” These are, by her definition, rel…
Beyond the Rainbow Bridge: Vernacular Ontologies of Animal Afterlives
To what extent do modern Westerners imagine animals as spiritual beings? How do they view animals' interiority compared with their own? In this article, I explore vernacular ontologies about animals that exist alongside dominant Western notions. In these narratives, animals are portrayed as having interiority similar to that of humans, living on after death in spiritual form, and interacting with humans as messengers from spiritual realms. My fin…
Folklore and the Animal Turn
This essay introduces a special issue of the Journal of Folklore Research (55–2) dedicated to folklore studies and the "animal turn," a movement among scholars from various disciplines to explore the shifting boundary between human and nonhuman animals and its ethical implications. Building on the pioneering work of folklorist Jay Mechling, the authors use a folkloristic approach to examine the human-animal relationship from the point of view of …
Magic and Politics
This essay introduces a special issue of Nova Religio on magic and politics in the United States in the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election. The articles in this issue address a gap in the literature examining intersections of religion, magic, and politics in contemporary North America. They approach political magic as an essentially religious phenomenon, in that it deals with the spirit world and attempts to motivate human behavior throu…
Witchcraft as Political Resistance
The use of political magic is one of the remarkable and unexpected cultural features to emerge from the 2016 presidential election in the United States. Using a combination of digital and face-to-face ethnography, this article explores the emergence of a movement dedicated to resisting the Donald Trump administration through witchcraft and magic. Applying the lens of Italian ethnologist Ernesto de Martino, it argues that the 2016 election created…
Leonard Norman Primiano (1957-2021)
The folklore world has lost a leading light with the death of Leonard Norman Primiano (1957–2021). Leonard was a major contributor to the development of a theory of religion in folklore studies. His methodological and theoretical developments reflected the influence of the postmodern critique in the social sciences and humanities. He focused primarily on lived religion—religion as it is experienced in everyday life by practitioners—as well as on …
Fairies, Environmental Justice, and Re-Enchantment in Modern Pagan Narratives
This paper examines contemporary Pagan narratives about fairies, revealing themes of re-enchantment, environmental grief, and environmental justice. In these narratives, fairies are often portrayed as nature spirits and protectors of the environment who warn humans of impending disaster and suggest techniques for re-enchanting the physical environment through practices that create reciprocal relationships between humans and nature, change conscio…
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