Konstantinos Zorbas
Biographic Data
| ID | 87222 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Konstantinos Zorbas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Konstantinos |
| FAMILY NAME | Zorbas |
| SIGNATURE | ZORBAS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Shandong University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4542-3958 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
"Shamans and "Dark Agencies: War, Magical Parasitism, and Re-Enchanted Spirits in Siberia
Alleged practices of magical assault and vampirism are a recurrent feature of popular explanations of misfortune in Tuva, South Siberia. Based on a field study of healing practices in an "Association of Shamans", this article analyses rituals of redressing curse afflictions in the context of Russian political domination. A central purpose of this discussion is to foreground the centrality of kinds of parasitical worship and occult threat to struc…
Shamanism and Cultural Evidence of Intangible Violence in Tyva, Siberia
This article foregrounds an unofficial, "dark" strand of shamanic revival, which lies at the interstices of local inspirational religion and the state's law in a Siberian periphery. Focusing on consultations concerned with ritual healing and counter-cursing in the Russian Republic of Tuva/Tyva, southern Siberia, the article documents a field of metaphysical disorder which is governed by shamans as purveyors of "forensic" evidence of cursing and a…
Shamanism, Occult Murder, and Political Assassination in Siberia and Beyond
The Professionalization of Revivalist Shamans as Ministers of Justice in Tyva Republic, Siberia
This paper documents a strand of religious practices concerned with curse afflictions in Tyva Republic, south Siberia. Drawing on consultations dealing with misfortunes the paper probes a field of justice, which is governed by shamans. The analysis focuses on two cases which illuminate the shamans' function as a judiciary against kinds of transgression which are sanctioned by the Russian justice system. The data reveal the rise of curse afflictio…
Resorting to Shamanic Agencies: Filling in for the Failure of the Official Institutions in a Siberian Periphery (Tyva Republic, Russia); Pp. 133–149
Drawing on a field study of shamanic remedies against affliction with curses in Tyva Republic (Siberia), this paper offers striking documentation of an â agencyâ of social control and justice which is officially unseen by the Russian state. The paper identifies several crucial social implications of â shamanismâ as an unofficial redress for kinds of occult-mediated conflict which transcend the limits of state jurisdiction. The data on shamanic co…
The Origins and Reinvention of Shamanic Retaliation in a Siberian City: Tuva Republic, Russia
Focusing on a kind of crime in a peripheral territory of Russia, this paper offers an unusual perspective on a classic anthropological topic: the phenomenon of occult violence described as “sorcery” or “witchcraft.” In Tuva, a Siberian culture with ancient traditions of shamanic religion, new evidence has emerged of a cohort of revivalist shamans who provide a counteroffensive against curse afflictions attributed to their clients’ enemies. The da…
The Origins and Reinvention of Shamanic Retaliation in a Siberian City: Tuva Republic, Russia
Focusing on a kind of crime in a peripheral territory of Russia, this paper offers an unusual perspective on a classic anthropological topic: the phenomenon of occult violence described as “sorcery” or “witchcraft.” In Tuva, a Siberian culture with ancient traditions of shamanic religion, new evidence has emerged of a cohort of revivalist shamans who provide a counteroffensive against curse afflictions attributed to their clients’ enemies. The da…
The Origins and Reinvention of Shamanic Retaliation in a Siberian City: Tuva Republic, Russia
Focusing on a kind of crime in a peripheral territory of Russia, this paper offers an unusual perspective on a classic anthropological topic: the phenomenon of occult violence described as “sorcery” or “witchcraft.” In Tuva, a Siberian culture with ancient traditions of shamanic religion, new evidence has emerged of a cohort of revivalist shamans who provide a counteroffensive against curse afflictions attributed to their clients’ enemies. The da…
Resorting to Shamanic Agencies: Filling in for the Failure of the Official Institutions in a Siberian Periphery (Tyva Republic, Russia); Pp. 133–149
Drawing on a field study of shamanic remedies against affliction with curses in Tyva Republic (Siberia), this paper offers striking documentation of an â agencyâ of social control and justice which is officially unseen by the Russian state. The paper identifies several crucial social implications of â shamanismâ as an unofficial redress for kinds of occult-mediated conflict which transcend the limits of state jurisdiction. The data on shamanic co…
The Professionalization of Revivalist Shamans as Ministers of Justice in Tyva Republic, Siberia
This paper documents a strand of religious practices concerned with curse afflictions in Tyva Republic, south Siberia. Drawing on consultations dealing with misfortunes the paper probes a field of justice, which is governed by shamans. The analysis focuses on two cases which illuminate the shamans' function as a judiciary against kinds of transgression which are sanctioned by the Russian justice system. The data reveal the rise of curse afflictio…
Shamanism, Occult Murder, and Political Assassination in Siberia and Beyond
Shamanism and Cultural Evidence of Intangible Violence in Tyva, Siberia
This article foregrounds an unofficial, "dark" strand of shamanic revival, which lies at the interstices of local inspirational religion and the state's law in a Siberian periphery. Focusing on consultations concerned with ritual healing and counter-cursing in the Russian Republic of Tuva/Tyva, southern Siberia, the article documents a field of metaphysical disorder which is governed by shamans as purveyors of "forensic" evidence of cursing and a…
"Shamans and "Dark Agencies: War, Magical Parasitism, and Re-Enchanted Spirits in Siberia
Alleged practices of magical assault and vampirism are a recurrent feature of popular explanations of misfortune in Tuva, South Siberia. Based on a field study of healing practices in an "Association of Shamans", this article analyses rituals of redressing curse afflictions in the context of Russian political domination. A central purpose of this discussion is to foreground the centrality of kinds of parasitical worship and occult threat to struc…
Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies (6 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (4 works) · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Economic Justice (3 works) · Shamanism (3 works) · Sociology (3 works)