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Conjuring hope : magic and healing in contemporary Russia / / Galina Lindquist



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Autore: Lindquist Galina Visualizza persona
Titolo: Conjuring hope : magic and healing in contemporary Russia / / Galina Lindquist Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York : , : Berghahn Books, , [2009]
©2009
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (271 p.)
Disciplina: 133.4/3/0947
133.430947
Soggetto topico: Magic - Russia (Federation)
Spiritual healing - Russia (Federation)
Soggetto geografico: Russia (Federation) Religious life and customs
Russia (Federation) Social conditions
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface: An Encounter with ''Power''; Introduction: Post-communism and Magic in Anthropology; Chapter 1: Marketing Magic; Chapter 2: Magic as Semiotic Changes: Ontologies, Rituals, and Terms of Affliction; Chapter 3: Magic as Management of Emotions; Chapter 4: The Icons of Power: Constructing Charisma from the Means at Hand; Chapter 5: Charisma of the Office: Healing Power and Biomedical Legitimacy; Chapter 6: The Unspeakable Emotions: Spells and Their Use in Working Life; Chapter 7: The Magic of Business and Fostering of Hope
Epilogue: Social FIelds, Fields of the Game, Minefields: Hazards of InterpretationBibliography; Index
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Conjuring hope  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-78238-471-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910792286203321
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Serie: Epistemologies of healing ; ; volume 1.