"As I Twirl This Spindle, …": Ritualization and the Magical Efficacy of Household Tasks in Western Antiquity

IF 0.1 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
D. Frankfurter
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abstract:In Mediterranean antiquity the ritual acts of binding and charming were often associated with ordinary domestic tasks reoriented through accompanying incantations and sometimes the adjustment of the task's gestures. Drawing on theories of ritualization (Bell, Humphrey, and Laidlaw) and extending the classical evidence with medieval and modern comparative materials, this article addresses how mundane economic practices are brought into service for magical performance. Ritualization highlights the process by which a domestic "agent" can isolate and transform some particular element or stage in an overall activity (clothes-making, cooking) to reflect a sense of stipulation, of traditional and efficacious action, and thus reorient the isolated domestic task for curse or binding charms.
“当我转动这个纺锤时,……”:西方古代家务的仪式化和神奇功效
在古代地中海地区,束缚和魅力的仪式行为通常与普通的家务有关,通过伴随的咒语和有时调整任务的手势来重新定向。本文借鉴了仪式化理论(Bell, Humphrey和Laidlaw),并用中世纪和现代的比较材料扩展了经典证据,阐述了世俗的经济实践是如何为魔术表演服务的。仪式化强调了一个过程,通过这个过程,一个家庭“代理人”可以隔离和改造一个整体活动(制衣,烹饪)中的某些特定元素或阶段,以反映一种规定感,一种传统和有效的行动,从而重新定位孤立的家庭任务,以诅咒或束缚魅力。
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期刊介绍: Preternature provides an interdisciplinary, inclusive forum for the study of topics that stand in the liminal space between the known world and the inexplicable. The journal embraces a broad and dynamic definition of the preternatural that encompasses the weird and uncanny—magic, witchcraft, spiritualism, occultism, esotericism, demonology, monstrophy, and more, recognizing that the areas of magic, religion, and science are fluid and that their intersections should continue to be explored, contextualized, and challenged.
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