MaPS: A Cartography of Partnership, Shamanism and Native Traditions

This collection of essays is the first attempt to explain the experience of MaPS, an innovative, world-leading Master specialisation programme on Partnership Studies and Shamanism as means to better understand ourselves, those around us, and the world. The essays span from literature and the creative arts, to anthropology and sociology, thus showing how the recovery of ancestral native wisdom and worldviews are necessary means to rethink the societies we live in. Apart from its scientific stance, the volume collects essays on the creative power of the arts, language and the creative mind. These are the writings and works of artists and shamans involved in MaPS. We believe in the integration of practices and experiments, in the constant search for a source of happiness that can be communal, participated, shared. This book brings to fruition the diverse scientific, creative and poetic paths traversed during the innovative and challenging experience of the Master in Partnership and Shamanism (UNIUD, MaPS, 2020) and its subsequent metamorphoses and different embodiments.

Mattia Mantellato

is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Enna ‘Kore’ (Italy) and author of articles and essays on post-decolonial English literatures and the interactions between literature, performance and dance. He is also a professional dancer graduated from La Scala in Milan, an international performer and artist.

Antonella Riem Natale

is Professor of English Literature at the University of Udine (Italy). She is the founder of the Partnership Studies Group (PSG) and editor in chief of the series 'ALL'  (Forum) and the online ANVUR A-ranked journal on world literatures «Le Simplegadi». She has more than one hundred international publications and nine monographic volumes on the Literatures in English.