Magic Specialists in Udmurt Culture:Some Portraits

Q2 Social Sciences

Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI:10.2478/jef-2022-0015

N. Anisimov

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Abstract This article* is dedicated to special people whom their community marked as having secret knowledge and magic power, and who belong of the institution of the initiated. My main sources are my field materials, interviews with these magic specialists, gathered between 2010 and 2021. My fieldwork data reveal that some healers have magic abilities from childhood, while others received them when they give birth or after some particular event in their lives. Some of these people specialise in and heal only particular ailments (for example of children), while others cure a wide range of diseases and difficulties. Some have special buildings to receive their visitors. The communities of which these personalities are part have ambiguous feelings towards them, and thus they become marginalised. As examples, I present the characters and describe the activities of seven women healers. I attempt to analyse precise examples of magic and social interaction within the relationships between the community and the magic specialist, and to investigate the understanding of the world that these healers have. To date there has been no focus on the personal and subjective aspect of this question, as well as to the socially regulative aspect: most publications so far have mainly emphasised the magic and mythological aspects.

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乌德穆尔特文化中的魔法专家：一些肖像

摘要本文*献给那些在他们的社区中被标记为拥有秘密知识和魔力的特殊人群，他们属于启蒙机构。我的主要来源是我在2010年至2021年间收集的实地材料，以及对这些魔术专家的采访。我的实地调查数据显示，一些治疗师从小就有魔法能力，而其他人则在分娩或生活中的某个特定事件后获得了魔法能力。其中一些人专门治疗特定的疾病（例如儿童），而另一些人则治疗各种疾病和困难。有些有专门的建筑来接待游客。这些人所属的社区对他们有着模糊的感情，因此他们被边缘化了。作为例子，我介绍了七位女性治疗师的角色和活动。我试图在社区和魔法专家之间的关系中分析魔法和社会互动的确切例子，并调查这些治疗师对世界的理解。到目前为止，还没有关注这个问题的个人和主观方面，以及社会调节方面：迄今为止，大多数出版物主要强调魔法和神话方面。

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Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics Social Sciences-Cultural Studies

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期刊介绍： Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics (JEF) is a multidisciplinary forum for scholars. Addressed to an international scholarly audience, JEF is open to contributions from researchers all over the world. JEF publishes articles in the research areas of ethnology, folkloristics, museology, cultural and social anthropology. It includes both studies focused on the empirical analysis of particular cases as well as those that are more theoretically oriented.