Pub Date : 2022-09-21DOI: 10.1080/0015587x.2022.2100080
Katelan E Smith
psychotherapy makes, and probably requires—about how to find things out, and what there is to find out—do not appear to me suitable for ethnographic research, which is how Souvlakis describes his research. It is sometimes impossible to escape the suspicion that one of the subtexts here is a defensive rebuttal of the notion that modern Corfiots are still superstitious. Having said that, Chapters Two and Three, the heart of the book, in which Souvlakis reports and draws upon his extensive interviews, focus groups, and conversations about the evil eye with lay people, Orthodox clergymen, folk healers, and mental health practitioners in Corfu, are, if you are interested in modern ‘supernatural belief’, very worth exploring. There are questions one might want to pose about the nature and status of some of this material as presented on the page, particularly about its editing and interactional context. On occasions it looks just a little too tidy and polished, which is, I know, a common shortcoming of ethnography. However, these questions should not be allowed to detract from the value and interest of his evidence. It is hard to think of a comparable body of evidence from anywhere else, and to those of us who are interested in such matters, publication of this material is of great value. Unfortunately, this praise must be tempered by the erosion of confidence that careless editing and poor scholarship cannot help but encourage. Leaving aside the rather remarkable fact that one will search in vain for a useful working definition of the book’s subject matter, consider the following selection: the index is six pages, give or take, out of synch with the text; there are notable absences from the discussion of the literature such as Joost A. M. Meerlo’s (admittedly eccentric) Intuition and the Evil Eye (1971), Edward S. Gifford’s The Evil Eye: Studies in the Folklore of Vision (1958) (although a 1960 paper is cited), and, strangest of all, Charles Stewart’s Demons and the Devil: Moral Imagination in Modern Greek Culture (1991); on pages 4–5 Michael Sharmer is referred to as Shermer, and the publication date of his book, Why People Believe Weird Things, is given as 1998, rather than 1997 (which maybe a confusion with Sharma 1998); on page 31 there is a mystifying reference to Wirt’s ‘extensive fieldwork in one of the Scottish Gaelic regions of Italian villages’; and I could add more. So, for the reasons that I have set out, Evil Eye in Christian Greek Orthodox Society is a work that is to be read with caution and an appropriately critical eye. However, the qualitative research data about Corfu and its people make it more than worth the effort.
在我看来，关于如何发现事物，以及有什么需要发现的，心理治疗所做的，可能也需要做的，似乎不适合人种学研究，这是苏弗拉基斯描述他的研究的方式。有时，人们难免会怀疑，这里的潜台词之一是对现代科菲奥特人仍然迷信这一观念的防御性反驳。话虽如此，如果你对现代“超自然信仰”感兴趣，本书的核心部分，即第二章和第三章，Souvlakis报告并借鉴了他与科孚岛的俗人、东正教牧师、民间治疗师和心理健康从业者进行的广泛访谈、焦点小组和对话，非常值得一读。对于页面上呈现的某些材料的性质和状态，特别是关于其编辑和交互上下文，人们可能会提出一些问题。有时它看起来有点过于整洁和精致，我知道，这是民族志的一个常见缺点。然而，这些问题不应被允许减损他的证据的价值和兴趣。很难从其他任何地方找到类似的证据，对于我们这些对这些事情感兴趣的人来说，出版这些材料是非常有价值的。不幸的是，这种赞扬必须受到信心的侵蚀，粗心的编辑和糟糕的学术只能鼓励信心的侵蚀。先不考虑一个相当显著的事实，即人们将徒劳地寻找对这本书主题的有用的工作定义，考虑一下以下选择:索引有六页左右，与正文不同步;在文献讨论中有一些值得注意的缺失，如Joost a . M. Meerlo的(公认古怪的)直觉与邪恶之眼(1971)，Edward S. Gifford的《邪恶之眼:视觉民俗研究》(1958)(尽管引用了1960年的一篇论文)，以及最奇怪的，Charles Stewart的《恶魔与魔鬼:现代希腊文化中的道德想象》(1991);在第4-5页，迈克尔·夏默被称为夏默，他的书《为什么人们相信奇怪的事情》的出版日期是1998年，而不是1997年(这可能与沙玛1998年的出版日期相混淆);在第31页，有一段关于Wirt“在意大利村庄的苏格兰盖尔区进行的广泛田野调查”的神秘引用;我还可以加更多。所以，基于我已经说过的原因，《基督教希腊东正教社会中的邪恶之眼》是一部需要谨慎阅读的作品，需要适当的批判眼光。然而，关于科孚岛及其人民的定性研究数据使其值得付出努力。
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Pub Date : 2022-09-21DOI: 10.1080/0015587X.2022.2115238
J. Wood.
contextualizes Hawaiian mo‘o with similar water deities from around the world, although with relevant emphasis on Polynesia. As an oiwi (native Hawaiian) fluent in the Hawaiian language, Brown explains how reliance on English-language translations has limited the analytical scope of big names in Hawaiian ethnography like Martha Beckwith. Brown offers several first-time translations of mo‘olelo about mo‘o, which she has retrieved from digital archives of Hawaiian-language newspapers. The collections stored in Papakilo Database and Ulukau Electronic Library are her main source materials. Brown argues that the knowledge produced in traditional Hawaiian storytelling about mo‘o sustains a complex indigenous worldview and philosophical understanding of the universe, which historically has been trivialized and simplified in Euro-American scholarship. In particular, she makes meaningful connections between the Hawaiian concept of kino lau and mo‘o. Kino lau refers to the multiple manifestations of deities in plants, fish, animals, and inanimate objects. She explores several illuminating examples of mo‘o kino lau, such as eels, caterpillars, birds, plants, clouds, wind, and geographical features. A similarly important cultural concept in Brown’s analysis is kinship and genealogy. Mo‘o is embedded in words like ‘iwikuamo‘o (‘backbone’, meaning family) and mo‘olele (story). A particularly important contribution to the study of mo‘o is Brown’s method of comparing multiple versions of mo‘o legends. For example, in Chapter Four, ‘Kinship and Antagonism between the Mo‘o and Pele Clans’, Brown examines point of view in several versions of legends pertaining to the powerful volcano goddess Pele and her family’s encounters with mo‘o. Photographs, maps, artwork, diagrams, and genealogical charts help to visualize the stories examined in Ka Po‘e Mo‘o Akua. Throughout the book, Brown offers richly engaging analyses that draw on indigenous and Euro-American scholarship and invite the reader to think critically about ethnographic methods and the multiple layers of knowledge contained within oral traditions.
将夏威夷的mo 'o与世界各地类似的水神结合起来，尽管重点放在波利尼西亚。作为一个精通夏威夷语的oiwi(夏威夷原住民)，Brown解释了对英语翻译的依赖如何限制了夏威夷人种学中知名人物的分析范围，比如玛莎·贝克威斯。布朗提供了几个关于mo 'olelo的首次翻译，这些翻译是她从夏威夷语报纸的数字档案中检索到的。收藏在Papakilo数据库和Ulukau电子图书馆是她的主要资料来源。布朗认为，夏威夷传统故事中产生的关于mo 'o的知识维持了一种复杂的土著世界观和对宇宙的哲学理解，而这些在历史上一直被欧美学者淡化和简化。特别是，她在夏威夷的kino law和mo 'o概念之间建立了有意义的联系。基诺律指的是神在植物、鱼类、动物和无生命物体中的多重表现。她探讨了几个有启发性的mo 'o kino定律的例子，如鳗鱼、毛毛虫、鸟类、植物、云、风和地理特征。在布朗的分析中，一个同样重要的文化概念是亲属关系和家谱。Mo ' o包含在iwikuamo ' o(“骨干”，意思是家庭)和Mo ' olele(故事)等词中。对莫奥研究的一个特别重要的贡献是布朗比较莫奥传说的多个版本的方法。例如，在第四章“莫欧和贝利氏族之间的亲缘关系和对立关系”中，布朗考察了有关强大的火山女神贝利及其家人与莫欧相遇的几个传说版本的观点。照片、地图、艺术品、图表和家谱图表有助于将Ka Po 'e Mo 'o Akua所研究的故事可视化。在整本书中，布朗提供了丰富而引人入胜的分析，这些分析借鉴了本土和欧美的学术成果，并邀请读者批判性地思考民族志方法和口述传统中包含的多层知识。
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Pub Date : 2022-09-20DOI: 10.1080/0015587X.2022.2110717
Andrew Teverson
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Pub Date : 2022-09-14DOI: 10.1080/0015587x.2022.2100070
Chloe Middleton-Metcalfe
as a whole, the argument surrounding the value of such engagement is a welcome addition: ‘it provides a chance to interact with our heritage and shape the direction it takes in the future’—for instance at the Choeung Ek Killing Fields in Cambodia (173). Despite some content verging on the grisly, the authors manage to keep the topic light—a relief when encountering a subject with the potential to be gratuitously grim. They sustain a united voice throughout the text, with academic rigour simmering under the surface of their often delightfully devilish tone. Dark Folklore is a book that holds the sweet promise of all things sinister, and it does not fail to disappoint our human fascination with the macabre. While first appearing to be a light-hearted romp through the more malevolent side of folklore, the book punches well above the weight of The History Press’s usual fare. It is certainly a book that will stay with the reader well into the night—and one to add a pinch of delicious darkness to any bookshelf.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/0015587x.2022.2110722
Sophia Kingshill
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/0015587x.2022.2110713
Ross MacFarlane
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/0015587x.2022.2110725
H. Frisby
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/0015587X.2022.2110719
Ross MacFarlane
vast and complex evidence for magic in the ancient Greco-Roman world’ and noting that his arguments primarily involve ‘tinkering with the definitions’ that ‘will enable other scholars to pedal the bicycle more effectively in the future’ (34). No doubt there is much more to be written and recovered, but few readers will be inclined to agree with this humble assessment. Drawing Down the Moon is as comprehensive an account of ancient magical practices as one could wish; a poetics of ancient magic that frames a set of complex and sophisticated arguments about human endeavours to manipulate and control their world through resort to symbolic activities and ritualized action.
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