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Beyond „modern“, „secular“, and „religion“ through dance improvisation: Handling situations of uncertainty in (inter)action

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14210%2F15%3A00089150" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14210/15:00089150 - isvavai.cz</a>

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Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    Beyond „modern“, „secular“, and „religion“ through dance improvisation: Handling situations of uncertainty in (inter)action

  • Original language description

    Mary Douglas viewed with irony the anthropologists' notion that "primitives expect rites to produce an immediate intervention in their affairs", and their tendency to "poke kindly fun at those who supplement their rituals of healing with European medicine...". Ernest Gellner expressed the idea that "oracle-surrogates" remain in use in a modern society in cases of serious non-calculable problems. My ethnographic fieldwork of contemporary dance improvisation shows that various kinds of "oracle-surrogates", "magic", and other "uncertain techniques", like "intuition", belief in rightness of what is happening by itself, and various forms of bodily intelligence, in combination with various "instrumentally rational techniques", form an important part of pragmatic handling of uncertainty and ambivalence.

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  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    O - Miscellaneous

  • CEP classification

    AC - Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology

  • OECD FORD branch

Result continuities

  • Project

  • Continuities

    S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Others

  • Publication year

    2015

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů