Tomorrow evening we will have the pleasure of hosting Alessandro Norsa on our YouTube channel for the presentation of his latest editorial effort, Divine masks. History of winter rites of passage, published last year by Karyon editor, a text that contains over twenty years of research on the subject throughout Europe (and beyond).
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ABSTRACT
Behind the masks of traditional carnivals hides the long journey of winter rites, an uninterrupted relationship of contact with the protective deities invoked to guarantee the subsistence of the community. The first traces of the production of the mask lead from a magical-symbolic thought in which representative stylized faces became a useful link with a rich spiritual world. These pages offer the reader an interpretative key to access the knowledge of the ancestral masks and their relationship between divinities, spirits and the very ancient exorcistic or propitiatory rites: evocations of a yearning for faith and hope which, starting from the dawn of humanity has persisted up to the present day.
ALESSANDRO NORSA
Psychologist Psychotherapist (1969) graduated from Padua in clinical psychology in 1996, since 2001 he has been a psychotherapist, specialist in psychosomatics, psychodrama and hypnotherapy. He holds two masters from the University of Coimbra (Portugal) in family and cognitive-behavioral therapy and a specialization in Neurobioethics and artificial brains from the Pontifical University Regina Apostolorum in Rome. Over time, beyond his professional commitment, he has developed an ethnographic-anthropological competence. He is currently an expert on the subject of the Modern History course at the University of Verona, a member of the European Society of Hypnosis and of the European Association of Social Anthropology. He founder of the Frazer Association for Anthropological Research. Former vice president of the AIST Association (Italian Association for the Study of Pain Therapy) since November 2019 he is president of SIPMU (Italian Scientific Society of Clinical Hypnosis in Psychotherapy and Humanistic Medicine). He has been collaborating for several years with the Universities of Turin, Venice and Cluj Napoca (Romania). Author of various national and international publications, he has reported in national and foreign conferences and congresses.
