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Marianna Zanetta, University of Turin, visiting researcher at the Hosei University in Tokyo, has obtained a PhD in Anthropology of Religions and Far Eastern Studies (EPHE Sorbonne/University of Turin). Her research focuses on Japanese shamanism, in particular Itako practices, and their relation with the world of the dead. She conducted fieldwork in Japan. Her research interest lies in the deep connection between the shamanic practices of northern Japan, in particular their ritual for the invocation of the dead (the Kuchiyose), and the underlying connection with the Japanese notion of family and the changes it underwent after WWII. Linked to this topic is the analysis of the afterlife, both in its Buddhist and Shintoist declinations.
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