Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
Description
This paper explores the relations that are established between Gagauz ilacci healers and divine agents through both the dreams and visions of healers and the performance of narrative okumak charms. Gagauz healing charms will be considered from a 'performative' perspective, emphasising how the speech acts of the healer bridge the cosmological divide between worldly and transcendent realities and enact and institute social relations with the divine.
Period
21 Jun 2009 → 27 Jun 2009
Event title
15th Congress of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research: Narratives Across Space and Time: Transmissions and Adaptations