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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.
Historically, canonic studies of ritual have discussed and
explained ritual organization, action, and transformation primarily
as representations of broader cultural and social orders. In the
present, as in the past, less attention is given to the power of
ritual to organize and effect transformation through its own
dynamics. Breaking with convention, the contributors to this volume
were asked to discuss ritual first and foremost in relation to
itself, in its own right, and only then in relation to its
socio-cultural context. The results attest to the variable
capacities of rites to effect transformation through themselves,
and to the study of phenomena in their own right as a fertile
approach to comprehending ritual dynamics.
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.
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