Lest we forget. A preliminary map of collective earthquake rituals of Italy

摘要: SUMMARY Fear and the need for reassurance - feelings as old humankind – find cultural expression in countless visible ways: beliefs behaviour patterns, rules rituals, good bad habits. However, there is also an invisible “non-way” to express them, by dismissing from mind forgetting soon possible whatever it was that made us afraid needing reassurance. In case of communities living “earthquake country” this kind reaction does seems a predictable, indeed almost obligated one: how could people go on places were repeatedly tragically affected seismic disasters, unless getting used quickly forget worst their past sufferings? But tendency remove hereditary trait humankind, or results specific stimuli (more likely occur some social environments than others)? The traditional popular culture Italy, outlined preliminary survey collective rituals connected with earthquakes, appears have been much keener remembering disasters removing memory: so keen, fact, still preserve memory earthquakes no catalogue has recorded far. educational value potential uses patrimony shared memories are very interesting indeed.