Bücher von Jerri Daboo

This volume considers performance in its engagement with expanding Indian cities, with particular focus on festivals and performances in South India. It is themed around heritage, everyday life, and future ecologies, will be of great interest to students and scholars in performance, heritage studies, ecology, and art history.

A historical and ethnographic study of tarantism and pizzica, draws upon seven hundred years of writings about the ritual contributed by medical practitioners, scientists, travel writers and others. It investigates the contemporary revival of interest in pizzica music and dance as part of the 'neo-tarantism' movement.