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by Galina Lindquist

Author: Galina Lindquist
Subcategory: World
Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books; 1 edition (December 1, 2005)
Pages: 272 pages
Category: History
Rating: 4.9
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Notions of magic and healing have been changing over past years and are now understood as reflecting local ideas of. .Galina Lindquist (1955-2008) was a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University. She received her P.

Notions of magic and healing have been changing over past years and are now understood as reflecting local ideas of power and agency. 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.

Galina Lindquist (1955-2008) was a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University.

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Book description: Notions of magic and healing have been changing over past .

Book description: 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. Lindquist’s book makes two important contributions, the first anthropological, and the second ethnographi. indquist clearly brought passion, care, and the highest ethical standards to her role as ethnographer, to the great benefit of her readers. This study focuses on contemporary urban Russia and, through exploring social conditions, conveys the experience of living that makes magic logical.

Notions of magic and healing have been changing over past years and are now understood as reflecting local ideas of.In this article, the ethnography of magic and healing in contemporary Russia is analyzed using the basic concepts of Peircian semiotics

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. In this article, the ethnography of magic and healing in contemporary Russia is analyzed using the basic concepts of Peircian semiotics. Indigenous terms of affliction used in magical diagnostics of misfortunes, as well as pantomimic gestures in hand healing are regarded as iconic and indexical signs.

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. 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.

Conjuring Hope: Magic and Healing In Contemporary Russia (Epistemologies of Healing). I was really excited when I read Lindquist's references to the Levi-Strauss articles that we have covered in class

Conjuring Hope: Magic and Healing In Contemporary Russia (Epistemologies of Healing). 1845450930 (ISBN13: 9781845450939). I was really excited when I read Lindquist's references to the Levi-Strauss articles that we have covered in class. It made me feel like I actually knew something worth knowing : ) I do recall thinking at the time that Levi-Strauss' comparison of the difference between the healing song and psychoanalysis was This book is awesome - a Peircian analysis of Russian Magi? Be still my heart! Also, my students are loving this. Here's what two of them had to say after reading the first two chapters

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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.