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Conjuring Hope : Healing and Magic in Contemporary Russia.

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 experien...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lindquist, Galina
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berghahn Books, 2005.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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 
505 8 |a Epilogue: Social FIelds, Fields of the Game, Minefields: Hazards of InterpretationBibliography; Index 
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