Augusto Ferraiuolo

**Augusto Ferraiuolo**

Cultural Anthropologist. Former lecturer and visiting scholar at Boston University. His research focuses on religious rituals, folk narrative, and performance. Among his publications are *Religious Festive Practices in Boston's North End. Ephemeral Identities in an Italian American Community* (SUNY, 2009) and *Rituals of Spontaneity. Communality and Subjectivity in Traditional Irish Music Sessions* (2018). In *Pro exoneratione sua propria coscientia. Atti di denuncia per stregoneria nella Capua del XVII e XVIII secolo* (Franco Angeli, 2000) and *Agata la Palermitana* (Frammenti, 2019), he addressed the themes of witchcraft and the Inquisition, while in *Fabula Plurima* (Frammenti, 2015) and *I racconti meravigliosi* (ESI, 1995), he analyzed oral narrative, where he began his comparative work between medieval exempla and folk narrative material.