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Sabina
Magliocco, Ph.D, is Associate Professor of Anthropology at California
State University, Northridge. She grew up in Italy and the United
States and was educated at Brown University and Indiana University,
Bloomington.
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| Sabina
in Padstow on May morning |
A recipient
of Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Humanities, Fulbright
and Hewlett fellowships, and winner of the 1994 Chicago Folklore
Prize, she has written on the year cycle, ritual, festival and folk
narrative in Europe and the United States. Her publications include
The Two Madonnas: the Politics of Festival in a Sardinian Community
(1993), Le due Marie di Bessude: festa e trasformazione sociale
in Sardegna (1995); Neo-Pagan Sacred Art and Altars: Making Things
Whole (2001), and Witching Culture: Folklore and Neo-Paganism in
America (2004).
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| California
State University Northridge |
Along
with documentary film maker John M. Bishop, she is currently making
an ethnographic film about Padstow, Cornwall's May Day 'obby 'oss.
She also serves as editor of Western Folklore, the scholarly journal
of the Western States Folklore Society. A resident of Los Angeles,
California, her non-academic interests include music (she plays
old-time banjo and guitar), gardening and cats.
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