About the author
Galina Lindquist is credited as the author of Conjuring Hope: Healing and Magic in Contemporary Russia, published by Berghahn Books. The book is an anthropological study of magic and healing practices in post-Soviet urban Russia, examining how these practices reflect local understandings of power, agency and selfhood during a period of significant social change. Rather than a practical or instructional guide, Conjuring Hope is written as a work of scholarship, drawing on fieldwork to situate contemporary Russian healing and magic within broader questions about subjectivity and social structure. The catalogue lists the same title in more than one printing from Berghahn Books, both from 2005. This is a book for readers interested in the anthropology of magic and religion, and in Russian society specifically, rather than for readers seeking guidance in magical or healing practice themselves.
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“Lindquist delivers a dense, academically rigorous ethnography that demands serious engagement from its audience. While intellectually stimulating for specialists in Slavic studies or esoteric anthropology, this text is not…”
Esoterica Books editorial team, Occult literature desk · on Conjuring Hope: Healing and Magic in Contemporary Russia - Ingram Academic Lindquist, Galina
“Lindquist provides a rigorous anthropological journey into Russia's hidden magical currents. While the study is insightful regarding societal structures and emotional landscapes, it is strictly academic in tone. Readers seeking…”
Esoterica Books editorial team, Occult literature desk · on Conjuring Hope: Healing and Magic in Contemporary Russia - Ingram Academic Lindquist, Galina
