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Magiske effekter i det postsocialistiske Mongoliet

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ID2654869
AutoresLars Højer (0000-0002-3506-6187, autor correspondente)
Ano2006
Fascículo53
Data de publicação2006-05-30
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoTidsskriftet Antropologi (BOOK_SERIES)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0906-3021 • E-ISSN: 2596-5425
EditoraDet Kgl. Bibliotek/Royal Danish Library (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.7146/ta.v0i53.106727
OpenAlexW3197492139
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas9

The fall of socialism has brought about a renewed engagement with magical objects and practices in Mongolia. However, many years of religious repression during the seventy years of socialist rule have led people to believe that their knowledge of religion, spirit powers and magical phenomena is insufficient at best. It is beyond doubt that much knowledge and many religious objects were lost during socialism, especially during the purges of the 1930s. Yet, rather than analysing people's dealings with spirit powers and magic as based on insufficient knowledge, this article attends to the current lack of knowledge about such phenomena, as well as to the 'absent knowledge' manifest in the aesthetics of certain objects and acts, as a precondition for their efficacy as magical objects and practices. As such, it is argued that it is this lack of knowledge that has made the phenomena in question more, and not less, magical and powerful

Aesthetics · Communism · Epistemology · MAGIC (telescope · Political science · Socialism · Sociology · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · Law · Philosophy · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices