“西方”民间疗愈者作为象征性疗愈者:以希腊北部的魔法仪式为例

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Preternature-Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural Pub Date : 2023-08-17 DOI:10.5325/preternature.12.2.0162

Athanasios Barmpalexis

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摘要:本文基于作者对苏格兰东北部具有萨满教知识的当代民间治疗师的生活和工作的博士研究，探讨了治疗传统的一个关键问题:这些人提供什么样的治疗?1986年，人类学家詹姆斯·道(James Dow)扩展了丹尼尔·莫尔曼(Daniel Moerman)的观点，即所有的精神治疗师实际上都是象征性的治疗师，他认为这些民间专家使用人类交流、仪式和特定文化的符号作为治疗他人的工具。根据作者与一位精神治疗师一起进行的民族志田野调查，本文通过他于2015年秋天在希腊进行的自发魔法仪式的例子，研究了治疗师的象征性治疗方法。这篇文章的目的是要从民族志的角度来证明疗愈者的做法是如何符合道的“象征性疗愈”方案的，作为他的疗愈实践效率的一个组成部分。

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The "Western" Folk Healer as a Symbolic Healer: A Case Study from a Magic Ritual in Northern Greece

abstract:The article, based on the author's doctoral research on the life and work of contemporary folk healers with shamanistic knowledge in North East Scotland, explores one key issue when it comes to healing traditions: What kind of healing do these individuals offer? In 1986, anthropologist James Dow, expanding on Daniel Moerman's idea that all spiritual healers are in fact symbolic healers, suggested that these folk specialists use human communication, ritual, and culture-specific symbols as tools to heal others. Drawing from the author's ethnographic fieldwork alongside one such spiritual healer, the article examines the healer's symbolic healing approaches through the example of a spontaneous magic ritual he conducted in autumn 2015 in Greece. The article's goal is to ethnographically demonstrate how the healer's practices fit into Dow's "symbolic healing" scheme as an integral component for the efficiency of his healing practices.

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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.