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Wiara, nadzieja i autorytet. Praktyki uzdrowicielskie na Podolu Wschodnim

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ID16966531
AuthorsJustyna Szymańska (corresponding author), Uniwersytet Warszawski
Year2017
Volume2
Publication date2017-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEtnografia Praktyki Teorie Doświadczenia (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2392-0971 • E-ISSN: 2543-9537
PublisherUniwersytet Jagiellonski - Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4467/254395379ept.16.002.6481
OpenAlexW2591640242
LanguageEN
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The article describes the practices of people using complementary medicine and alternative methods of healing in a Ukrainian village of Murafa and the city of Vinnytsa, both situated in historical Eastern Podolia. I analyse the figure of healer and also attempt to scrutinise local complementary medicine market. In my analisys I use the concept of bricolage and combining practices based on discourses of science, folk, traditions, and spirituality. I also examine the ways in which healers use practices usually related to institutions such as the church or state in order to make sense of their work. The example of state and its institutions serves as an illustration of an object deconstructed in common consciousness, but still generating subliminal attachement to its manifestations; similary I try to look at the question of complementary medicine and healers acting in this field. I conclude my reflections analysing the embodied experience of change that seems to be essential in a successful process of healing

Aesthetics · Art · Bricolage · Consciousness · Epistemology · Literature · Meditation · Sociology · Theology · Traditional medicine · Central European Literary Studies · Computer Science · Historical and Cultural Studies of Poland · Medicine · Philosophy · Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies

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