Original title: Rituální léčba u Navahů
Translated title: Navajo Ritual Healing
Authors: Galovič, Roman ; Chlup, Radek (advisor) ; Kozák, Jan (referee)
Document type: Bachelor's theses
Year: 2016
Language: slo
Abstract: [eng] [cze]
In this paper I deal with two traditions of ritual healing in Navajoland, namely with the traditional Navajo ritual healing and the peyote healing of Native American Church. I introduce them in three dimensions when I consecutively describe a cosmological framework, a social organization and a specific example of a ritual. At the core of my analysis is the grid & group method that was developed by Mary Douglas, when I look for the correlations between cosmological notions and social structures, and the ways they are established by the ritual. This way I point out how the colonial oppression weakened community ties and created ground for the growth of Native American Church in Navajoland, because NAC is able to offer existential answers for life in such a desolate space. However this does not mean that the Traditional Navajo healing was wiped out by colonialism, and both traditions continue to exist side by side and are quite often combined by particular patients. I offer a way to interpret this medical plurality when I fuse Mary Douglas' method with certain traditional Navajo notions and psychological analyses by Friedrich Nietzsche. In this view, every person would be permanently situated in socially and phenomenologically heterogenic space, and particular healing traditions would heal different social... V tejto práci sa zaoberám dvoma liečebnými tradíciami z navažského prostredia, konkrétne tradičnou rituálnou liečbou a peyotovou liečbou Native American Church. Tie predstavujem v troch rozmeroch, keď postupne sledujem kozmologický rámec, spoločenskú organizáciu, a konkrétny príklad rituálu. V jadre mojej práce je model mriežky a skupiny od Mary Douglasovej, keď sledujem práve korelácie medzi kozmologickými predstavami a sociálnymi štruktúrami a spôsoby, akými sa ustanovujú v rituáli. Týmto spôsobom poukazujem ako kolonialistický útlak oslabil komunitné väzby a vytvoril pôdu, v ktorom sa začal rozrastať Native American Church v navažskom prostredí, pretože dokázal ponúknuť existenciálne odpovede práve pre život v takto bezútešnom priestore. To ale neznamená, že by kolonializmus vykorenil navažskú tradičnú liečbu, a obidve tradície existujú naďalej bok po boku a sú často kombinované jednotlivými pacientkami a pacientmi. Ponúkam možnosť výkladu tejto liečebnej plurality, keď prepájam model Mary Douglasovej s určitými tradičnými navažskými predstavami a psychologickými úvahami Friedricha Nietzscheho. Takto by každá osoba bola permanentne situovaná v spoločensky a fenomenologicky rôznorodom priestore, kde by jednotlivé liečebné tradície liečili v ľuďoch odlišné "sociálne ja". Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
Keywords: colonialism; cosmology; Mary Douglas; Native American Church; Navajos; ritual healing; society; kolonialismus; kosmologie; Mary Douglas; Native American Church; Navahové; rituální léčba; společnost

Institution: Charles University Faculties (theses) (web)
Document availability information: Available in the Charles University Digital Repository.
Original record: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/79557

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