Enchantments of stone: Confronting other-than-human agency in Irish pilgrimage practices

IF 1.6 2区 历史学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY
R. Lash
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Abstract

In contemporary Ireland, mountains, holy wells, and islands attract people from various geographic and religious backgrounds to participate in annual pilgrimages. Scholars and participants continue to debate the historical links of these events to 19th-century turas, “journey” traditions, early medieval penitential liturgies, and even prehistoric veneration of natural phenomena. Drawing from recent participant observation at Croagh Patrick mountain and excavations on Inishark Island, I analyze how modern and medieval pilgrimage practices generated “enchantments” through movements and embodied encounters with stones that materialize both past human action and other-than-human agency. Rather than products of timeless continuity of experience, such enchantments have varied widely across time. Viewing pilgrimage movements and materials in their taskscape settings highlights the articulation between the embodied affects and political and ideological effects of pilgrims’ engagement with stones in particular historic contexts. Questioning simple narratives of continuity, this study demonstrates how a relational approach can enhance analyses of pilgrimage as scenes of social reproduction, ideological controversy, and political contest.
石头的魅力:在爱尔兰朝圣实践中面对非人类代理
在当代爱尔兰,山脉、圣井和岛屿吸引着来自不同地理和宗教背景的人参加一年一度的朝圣活动。学者和参与者继续争论这些事件与19世纪的turas、“旅程”传统、中世纪早期的忏悔仪式,甚至史前对自然现象的崇拜的历史联系。根据最近参与者在Croagh Patrick山的观察和在Inishark岛的挖掘,我分析了现代和中世纪的朝圣实践是如何通过运动和与石头的具体接触产生“魅力”的,这些石头既体现了过去的人类行为,也体现了人类以外的能动性。这种魅力并不是经验永恒延续的产物,而是随着时间的推移而变化很大。在任务场景中观看朝圣运动和材料,突出了朝圣者在特定历史背景下与石头接触的具体影响与政治和意识形态影响之间的联系。本研究质疑简单的连续性叙事,展示了关系方法如何加强对朝圣作为社会再生产、意识形态争议和政治竞争场景的分析。
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Social Archaeology is a fully peer reviewed international journal that promotes interdisciplinary research focused on social approaches in archaeology, opening up new debates and areas of exploration. It engages with and contributes to theoretical developments from other related disciplines such as feminism, queer theory, postcolonialism, social geography, literary theory, politics, anthropology, cognitive studies and behavioural science. It is explicitly global in outlook with temporal parameters from prehistory to recent periods. As well as promoting innovative social interpretations of the past, it also encourages an exploration of contemporary politics and heritage issues.
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