Revealing the Ritually Concealed: Custodians, Conservators, and the Concealed Shoe
Concealed shoes are footwear purposely concealed within domestic buildings. The motivations behind their concealments are unknown to us, but the prominent theory suggests that shoes were employed as apotropaic (evil-averting) devices. The metonymical connection between shoe and wearer is believed to...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
[2018]
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Material religion
Year: 2018, Volume: 14, Issue: 2, Pages: 163-182 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Object (Philosophy)
/ Seclusion
/ Ritual
B Shoe / Verborgener Schatz / Magical thinking |
RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion |
Further subjects: | B
popular belief
B Conservation B Apotropaic B Museums B Concealed shoes |
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