'alternative' medical settings; archetypal actions of ritual; Buddhist medicine; cultural rupture; ritual form; shamanism; syncretization
摘要
Engaging Humphrey and Laidlaw’s ‘archetypal actions of ritual’, this article explores the thing-like and seemingly externally derived quality of ritualized action in ‘alternative’ medical settings in Mongolia. The cultural rupture of the Soviet era presents a case study in which the continuity of ritualized action cannot be assumed in ritual making during the post-1990 (re)construction of national culture. Elements derived from shared public knowledge have become constituted in ritual more recently and frequently than can be accounted for by an aperture-like model, where previously external elements gradually filtered in. Building on regional literature concerning loss of ritual form and recent syncretic innovation, I suggest that the affordances of form—mobility, iterability, and malleability—capture the politics inherent in the reordering of associations in the making of ritual.
目次
Abstract 47 Political Economy, Cosmology, and Ritual Revival in Post-Soviet Mongolia 49 Archetypal Actions of Ritual and the Making of Healing Rituals in Mongolia 53 The Material-Semiotic Affordances of Form 61 Conclusion 65 Acknowledgments 66 Notes 67 References 68
