As one of the peer reviewers for that paper, Professor Hutton gave me extremely valuable feedback, thus beginning what became a very fruitful cross-disciplinary exchange of ideas.
While Professor Hutton and I have different disciplinary specialties – history and Folkloristics/ ethnology, respectively – we are interested in many of the same subjects and broader theoretical issues; thus our perspectives complement one another.
Moreover, while my own grasp of history is weak and flawed, Proffessor Hutton’s mastery of anthropological and folkloristic literature is extraordinary for a scholar trained in a completely different discipline.
It is therefore especially fitting that my contribution to this volume once again take up the threads of that original paper, expanding them in new directions and adding to what Professor Hutton has himself written on the subject of Herodias and Aradia.
This work also provides an unexpected link between my early ethnographic research in Sardinia and my later interest in contemporary Witchcraft, bringing my research full circle in a satisfying way."
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http://www.academia.edu/584599/Aradia_in_Sardinia_the_Archaeology_of_a_Legend
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