New contexts for the transmission of sacred knowledge: A case study from the Carpathian Mountains
This paper inquires about the social reasons and epistemological consequences of sacred knowledge (charms) outside its “original setting”, toward an archive of folklore or to a new age journal. Some local specificities of relationships between knowledge and power are explored through multiple contex...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Akadémiai Kiadó
[2018]
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Acta ethnographica Hungarica
Year: 2018, Volume: 63, Issue: 1, Pages: 49-62 |
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| Summary: | This paper inquires about the social reasons and epistemological consequences of sacred knowledge (charms) outside its “original setting”, toward an archive of folklore or to a new age journal. Some local specificities of relationships between knowledge and power are explored through multiple contextualisations of an interview we conducted with a former shepherd and healer in the Carpathian Mountains, Romania. |
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| ISSN: | 1588-2586 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Acta ethnographica Hungarica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1556/022.2018.63.1.4 |