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Conjuring hope : magic and healing in contemporary Russia / Galina Lindquist.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lindquist, Galina, author.
- Series:
- Epistemologies of healing ; volume 1.
- Epistemologies of healing ; volume 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Magic--Russia (Federation).
- Magic.
- Spiritual healing--Russia (Federation).
- Spiritual healing.
- Russia (Federation)--Religious life and customs.
- Russia (Federation).
- Russia (Federation)--Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (271 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, [2009]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 23, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 9781782384717
- 1782384715
- OCLC:
- 875633020
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