Healing Dramas : : Divination and Magic in Modern Puerto Rico / / Raquel Romberg.
In this intimate ethnography, Raquel Romberg seeks to illuminate the performative significance of healing rituals and magic works, their embodied nature, and their effectiveness in transforming the states of participants by focusing on the visible, albeit mostly obscure, ways in which healing and ma...
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Romberg, Raquel, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Healing Dramas : Divination and Magic in Modern Puerto Rico / Raquel Romberg. Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021] ©2009 1 online resource (311 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface. After Eight Years -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Healing Dramas -- Chapter One. A Flight Perfected at Death: Mimetic Memories of a Brujo -- Chapter Two. Dreams -- Chapter Three. Drama -- Chapter Four. Spiritual Time -- Chapter Five. The Sentient Body -- Chapter Six. Space -- Epilogue. A Farewell Trabajo -- Notes -- References -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In this intimate ethnography, Raquel Romberg seeks to illuminate the performative significance of healing rituals and magic works, their embodied nature, and their effectiveness in transforming the states of participants by focusing on the visible, albeit mostly obscure, ways in which healing and magic rituals proceed. The questions posed by Romberg emerge directly from the particular pragmatics of Puerto Rican brujería (witch-healing), shaped by the eclecticism of its rituals, the heterogeneous character of its participants, and the heterodoxy of its moral economy. What, if any, is the role of belief in magic and healing rituals? How do past discourses on possession enter into the performative experience of ritual in the here and now? Where does belief stop, and where do memories of the flesh begin? While these are questions that philosophers and anthropologists of religion ponder, they acquire a different meaning when asked from an ethnographic perspective. Written in an evocative, empathetic style, with theoretical ruminations about performance, the senses, and imagination woven into stories that highlight the drama and humanity of consultations, this book is an important contribution to the cross-cultural understanding of our capacity to experience the transcendental in corporeal ways. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2022) Divination Puerto Rico. Magic Puerto Rico. Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric Puerto Rico. SOCIAL SCIENCE / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110745344 https://doi.org/10.7560/706583 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292793651 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780292793651/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface. After Eight Years -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Healing Dramas -- Chapter One. A Flight Perfected at Death: Mimetic Memories of a Brujo -- Chapter Two. Dreams -- Chapter Three. Drama -- Chapter Four. Spiritual Time -- Chapter Five. The Sentient Body -- Chapter Six. Space -- Epilogue. A Farewell Trabajo -- Notes -- References -- Index |
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