Bookshelves create a cozy atmosphere

Kajander, Anna

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“…Alftberg 2017). For example, the materiality of homemaking is full of mnemonic and affective significances, 10 and even the materiality and sensuous qualities of books can have affective and emotional agency upon people (Kajander 2022). Agency is generally understood as a socio-cultural ability to act (Hoskins 2006, 74;Gell 1998), which can also be applied to non-human actors, such as things, machines and technologies that affect both human behaviour and ways of being in the world.…”

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Material Agency of Crystals in New Spirituality

Teidearu

2023

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This paper studies crystals in New Spirituality in Estonia not only as things, or objects, used in certain practices, but also as agentive materials. My research participants, who wear crystals, take their material properties seriously, finding the properties to have supportive qualities, according to esoteric interpretation. Nevertheless, things and materials, objects and minerals, are never permanent; they have material lives of their own. Sometimes minerals lose their gloss, crack, break or just become lost. Physical decay and displacement, which are the focus of this paper, have meaning-making potential, which my interlocutors interpret within the framework of the esoteric. Their perception of these minerals can be understood in posthumanist and new materialist terms. The paper uses the concept of material agency to demonstrate how natural processes of decay acquire cultural meaning by connecting material properties and human interpretation. This work was supported by an Estonian Research Council grant (PUT number PRG670), ‘Vernacular Interpretations of the Incomprehensible: Folkloristic Perspectives Towards Uncertainty’.

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Material Agency of Crystals in New Spirituality

Teidearu

2023

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Bookshelves create a cozy atmosphere

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Material Agency of Crystals in New Spirituality

Material Agency of Crystals in New Spirituality

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