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T1  - Blowing specific words : verbal charms as material suspended events 
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UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/334676 
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A1  - Siragusa, Laura; Zhukova, Ol'ga Yu 
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Y1  - 2021 
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AB  - This article undermines the actuality of a strict boundary between language and materiality by presenting verbal charms (puheged, vajhed/pakitas in Vepsian) among Veps, an Indigenous minority group of Northwest Russia. Vepsian verbal charms are ritualizedways of speaking that are customarily used to prompt a change in both human beings and environments in very tangibleways. When observing how they are conceived, distributed, and performed among Veps, the rigid separation between "material" and "... 
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KW  - event; human and non-human agencies; language (and) materiality; Northwest Russia; Veps; verbal charms; ANTHROPOLOGY; LANGUAGE; 6121 Languages 
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