Conjuring Hope: Magic and Healing In Contemporary Russia - Couverture souple

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Lindquist, Galina

 
9781845450939: Conjuring Hope: Magic and Healing In Contemporary Russia
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ISBN 10 : 1845450930 ISBN 13 : 9781845450939
Editeur : Berghahn Books, 2005

Synopsis

Notions of magic and healing have been changing over past years and are now understood as reflecting local ideas of power and agency, as well as structures of self, subjectivity and affect. This study focuses on contemporary urban Russia and, through exploring social conditions, conveys the experience of living that makes magic logical. By following people's own interpretations of the work of magic, the author succeeds in unraveling the logic of local practice and local understanding of affliction, commonly used to diagnose the experiences of illness and misfortune.

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À propos de l?auteur

Galina Lindquist (1955-2008) was a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University. She received her Ph.D. in 1998, and did fieldwork among neo-shamans in Sweden, among alternative healing practitioners and patients in Moscow, and among shamans and lamas in Tyva, Southern Siberia. She authored Conjuring Hope: Healing and Magic in Contemporary Russia (2006), The Quest for the Authentic Shaman: Multiple Meanings of Shamanism on a Siberian Journey (2006), co-edited four volumes, and published numerous articles in professional journals.

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Éditeur
Berghahn Books
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1845450930
ISBN 13 
9781845450939
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
272
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
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