In this volume of the series I Quaderni dello Sguardo, an anthropological and a photographic eye meet again to give us a record of the incanata, a rite of healing and initiation that Marialba Russo photographed in 1979 on a mountain in the province of Avellino, on the border with Basilicata.

“The world is in colour but reality is in black and white. Wim Wenders' phrase leaps to mind, like an automatism of thought, in front of these pictures — which do not limit themselves to recording a peasant rite but bring out the watermark of it.”