2019
DOI: 10.18485/folk.2019.4.1.8
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Approaching Ideologies of Things Made of Language: A Case Study of a Finno-Karelian Incantation Technology

Abstract: This article introduces an approach to ideologies of texts and of categories of text type for approaching the emic conceptions of things made of language or other kinds of signs. Finno-Karelian incantations of the ritual specialist known as a tietäjä provide a case study, considered in the broader context of cultures in the Circum-Baltic region. Text ideology is salient in this tradition owing to a conception that a performer will lose an incantation's power when it is communicated as a whole to someone else, … Show more

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“…recursivity likely centered on Þórr as a contemporary agent active in the world rather than on Þórr's acts in cosmogonic time, even if these provided specific exemplar events. Incantations could include the recital of a mythic exemplar of the healing act being performed, but they also commonly included recitals of cosmogonic events that, within the temporal ideology of the tradition, seem to have been conceived as having concurrent objective existence as they were being recited (Siikala 2002;Frog 2019c). Finno-Karelian temporal ideologies thus seem to be structured quite differently from their Scandinavian counterparts, even allowing events in mythic time to exist simultaneously in the present.…”
Section: Culture-dependencementioning
confidence: 99%
“…recursivity likely centered on Þórr as a contemporary agent active in the world rather than on Þórr's acts in cosmogonic time, even if these provided specific exemplar events. Incantations could include the recital of a mythic exemplar of the healing act being performed, but they also commonly included recitals of cosmogonic events that, within the temporal ideology of the tradition, seem to have been conceived as having concurrent objective existence as they were being recited (Siikala 2002;Frog 2019c). Finno-Karelian temporal ideologies thus seem to be structured quite differently from their Scandinavian counterparts, even allowing events in mythic time to exist simultaneously in the present.…”
Section: Culture-dependencementioning
confidence: 99%
“…(Piela 1983;Siikala 1986a;1986b;[1992.) Viimeaikaisessa tutkimuksessa on selvitetty muun muassa tietäjien kommunikatiivisten loitsujen yhteyttä, sovellettu kognitiivista rituaaliteoriaa loitsututkimukseen sekä uudelleen arvioitu oletusta tietäjien loitsuista salaisena perinteenä, jota ei saanut paljastaa ulkopuolisille (Frog 2019;Kohonen 2022;Karlsson 2022a).…”
Section: Kalevalamittaiset Loitsutunclassified
“…Tietäjälle tyypillistä ovat rituaalissa tapahtuvat reaaliaikaiset kohtaamiset tuonpuoleisen toimijoiden ja voimien kanssa (Frog 2019;Siikala 1999Siikala [1992). Tietäjän välineitä rituaalissa olivat sekä fyysiset välineet että tietäjän toimintaa sanallistavat ja tuonpuoleisen kanssa kohtaamisessa käytetyt loitsut.…”
Section: Tietäjätunclassified
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