New contexts for the transmission of sacred knowledge: A case study from the Carpathian Mountains
New contexts for the transmission of sacred knowledge: A case study from the Carpathian Mountains

Summary/Abstract: This paper inquires about the social reasons and epistemological consequences of sacred knowledge (charms) outside its “original setting”, toward an archive of folklore or to a new age journal. Some local specificities of relationships between knowledge and power are explored through multiple contextualisations of an interview we conducted with a former shepherd and healer in the Carpathian Mountains, Romania.

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