Conjuring Hope: Healing and Magic in Contemporary Russia Contributor(s): Lindquist, Galina (Author) |
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ISBN: 1845450574 ISBN-13: 9781845450571 Publisher: Berghahn Books OUR PRICE: $128.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2005 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Body, Mind & Spirit | Magick Studies - Social Science | Anthropology - General - Medical | Healing |
Dewey: 133.430 |
LCCN: 2005041135 |
Series: Epistemologies of Healing |
Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6" W x 9" (1.17 lbs) 272 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia - Topical - New Age |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher 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. 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Lindquist, Galina: - 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. |