AN ATTEMPT AT AN ENERGETIC-INFORMATION INTERPRETATION OF SOME MAGIC-MEDICINAL PRACTICES IN THE TRADITIONAL FOLK CULTURE OF SLOVAKIA Cover Image

POKUS O ENERGETICKO-INFORMAČNÚ INTERPRETÁCIU NIEKTORÝCH MAGICKÝCH LIEČEBNÝCH PRAKTÍK V TRADIČNEJ ĽUDOVEJ KULTÚRE SLOVENSKA
AN ATTEMPT AT AN ENERGETIC-INFORMATION INTERPRETATION OF SOME MAGIC-MEDICINAL PRACTICES IN THE TRADITIONAL FOLK CULTURE OF SLOVAKIA

Author(s): Dušan Belko
Subject(s): Anthropology
Published by: SAV - Slovenská akadémia vied - Ústav etnológie a sociálnej antropológie Slovenskej akadémie vied

Summary/Abstract: The author analyses some representative examples from the field of ethno-medicine. He points especially to a certain agreement between magic-medical procedures preserved in the traditional folk culture of Slovakia, which developed in the course of many generations and originate from times when official science and medicine practically did not exist and the procedures of biotherapy . of a helpful therapeutic method, helping on the energetic-information level of the body. The paper also mentions the accessible literature on the given problem as well as the theoreticalmethodological starting point of a possible new approach to the study of magic phenomena. This approach is based on an energetic-information interpretation of the given phenomena and provides interested persons and researchers in this area with a particular, clearly not the only view of traditional knowledge, which was placed in the category of irrational ideas in Slovak ethnology up to now

  • Issue Year: 45/1997
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 62-74
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Slovak
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