Ernesto De Martino Author

Ernesto de Martino (1908–1965) was an Italian anthropologist, philosopher, and historian of religions. Dorothy L. Zinn is professor of sociocultural anthropology at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. She has translated two of de Martino’s other books: The Land of Remorse: A Study of Southern Italian Tarantism and Magic: A Theory from the South.