Healing dramas
divination and magic in modern Puerto Pico
1st ed.
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Word Count
73,750 words, Guess
Page Count
295 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL22569295M
- ISBN-139780292706583
- OCLC Control Number261404098
- OCLC Control Numberhealingdramasdiv00romb
- Library of Congress Control Number2008042067
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- LibraryThing9820267
- Goodreads6528968
Classifications
- DDC133.4/3097295
- LCCBF1584.P9 R65 2009
Description
In this intimate ethnography, Raquel Romberg seeks to illuminate the performative significance of healing rituals and magic works, their embodied nature, and their effectiveness in transforming the states of participants by focusing on the visible, albeit mostly obscure, ways in which healing and magic rituals proceed. The questions posed by Romberg emerge directly from the particular pragmatics of Puerto Rican brujería (witch-healing), shaped by the eclecticism of its rituals, the heterogeneous character of its participants, and the heterodoxy of its moral economy.
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