My guest today is Dr. Sabina Magliocco, Ph.D. She is Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Interdisciplinary Program in the Study of Religion at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. A recipient of Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Humanities, SSHRC, Fulbright and Hewlett fellowships, and an honorary Fellow of the American Folklore Society, Dr. Magliocco has published on religion, folklore, foodways, festival, and witchcraft in Europe and North America, and is a leading authority on the modern Pagan movement. She is the author of numerous books and academic articles, including The Two Madonnas: the Politics of Festival in a Sardinian Community, Witching Culture: Folklore and Neo-Paganism in America, Neopagan Sacred Art & Altars: Making Things Whole, and “Reclamation, Appropriation and the Ecstatic Imagination,” in the Handbook of Contemporary Paganism, edited by James R. Lewis. With filmmaker John M. Bishop, she produced the documentary film series “Oss Tales,” on a May Day custom in Cornwall and its reclamation by American Pagans. I will put links to all these works in the show notes. Dr. Magliocco’s current research is on fairies in the Anthropocene. She is also trained in the Gardnerian and Reclaiming traditions and co-leads a coven in Vancouver, B.C.
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Web: https://anth.ubc.ca/faculty/sabina-magliocco/
Other papers and people referenced in this interview include:
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