Mal''uocchiu: Ambiguity, Evil Eye, and the Language of Distress
ISBN: 9781442676947
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Toronto Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Evil eye; Evil eye -- Italy -- Sicily; Italian Canadians -- Folklore; Italian Canadians -- Social life and customs;

Migliore examines the vague, ambiguous, and variable nature of mal'uocchiu (evil eye) among Sicilian-Canadians, shifting the focus of attention from explaining the concept to examining how "folk constructs" are used in everyday life.


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Sam Migliore is an associate professor of anthropology at the University College of Cape Breton.

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