The author is concerned with the question; who says the truth in a tale of healing, the patient or the doctor, and who gets the last word in a sanctuary like Lourdes? By now - the author suggests after analyzing the works of 19th century doctors, priests and novelists - the last word has been given to doctors, since only they are authorized to decide on the veracity of the miracle.
La ricerca folklorica — Contributions to the study of the culture of the working classes is a magazine founded by a group of young ethnologists to create a place for study of the themes of popular culture, both Italian and international. In the context of the magazine, the adjective 'folkloric' defines, according to Ernesto De Martino, those elements in common between the cultures of the working classes in the West and the primitive and working classes in the developing world, in other words, their development in conditions of economic and political subalternity.
Founded in Brescia (Lombardy, Italy) in 1973, Grafo is a publishing company that specialises in publications on the environment, history, art and culture of the territory of Brescia. Since 1984 it has published the illustrated magazine AB Atlante bresciano, a quarterly on tourism and the local milieu. The company's focus on popular culture led in 1980 to collaboration with Glauco Sanga and the creation of La Ricerca Folklorica, which still remains the most important Italian journal in the field of ethno-anthropology.
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