Enchantments of stone: Confronting other-than-human agency in Irish pilgrimage practices. (October 2018)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Enchantments of stone: Confronting other-than-human agency in Irish pilgrimage practices. (October 2018)
- Main Title:
- Enchantments of stone: Confronting other-than-human agency in Irish pilgrimage practices
- Authors:
- Lash, Ryan
- Abstract:
- In contemporary Ireland, mountains, holy wells, and islands attract people from various geographic and religious backgrounds to participate in annual pilgrimages. Scholars and participants continue to debate the historical links of these events to 19th-century turas, "journey" traditions, early medieval penitential liturgies, and even prehistoric veneration of natural phenomena. Drawing from recent participant observation at Croagh Patrick mountain and excavations on Inishark Island, I analyze how modern and medieval pilgrimage practices generated "enchantments" through movements and embodied encounters with stones that materialize both past human action and other-than-human agency. Rather than products of timeless continuity of experience, such enchantments have varied widely across time. Viewing pilgrimage movements and materials in their taskscape settings highlights the articulation between the embodied affects and political and ideological effects of pilgrims' engagement with stones in particular historic contexts. Questioning simple narratives of continuity, this study demonstrates how a relational approach can enhance analyses of pilgrimage as scenes of social reproduction, ideological controversy, and political contest.
- Is Part Of:
- Journal of social archaeology. Volume 18:Number 3(2018)
- Journal:
- Journal of social archaeology
- Issue:
- Volume 18:Number 3(2018)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 18, Issue 3 (2018)
- Year:
- 2018
- Volume:
- 18
- Issue:
- 3
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2018-0018-0003-0000
- Page Start:
- 284
- Page End:
- 305
- Publication Date:
- 2018-10
- Subjects:
- Taskscape -- early medieval Ireland -- sensory archaeology -- relationality -- pilgrimage -- archaeology of the present
Social archaeology -- Periodicals
930.1 - Journal URLs:
- http://jsa.sagepub.com/ ↗
http://www.uk.sagepub.com/home.nav ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1177/1469605318762816 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1469-6053
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