Conjuring Hope: Healing and Magic in Contemporary Russia (Paperback or Softback)
Lindquist, Galina
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Published by Berghahn Books 12/1/2005, 2005
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Conjuring Hope: Healing and Magic in Contemporary Russia. Seller Inventory # BBS-9781845450939
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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.
About the Author:
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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Title: Conjuring Hope: Healing and Magic in ...
Publisher: Berghahn Books 12/1/2005
Publication Date: 2005
Binding: Paperback or Softback
Condition: New
Book Type: Book