Papers by Kamila Velkoborská
Berghahn Books, Dec 31, 2022
Theories and Practice, 2010
... Email: camilla@ kaj. zcu. cz Abstract: Wicca, or contemporary witchcraft, is currently among ... more ... Email: camilla@ kaj. zcu. cz Abstract: Wicca, or contemporary witchcraft, is currently among the fastest growing religions in the USA. ... The goddess is depicted as a trinity, maiden, mother and crone, which corresponds to the three phases of the moonwaxing, full and waning. ...
Religion and society in Central and Eastern Europe, 2021
This paper presents a specific situation concerning the Czech Pagan community, mainly through the... more This paper presents a specific situation concerning the Czech Pagan community, mainly through the narrative of the actors. Using the emic approach, the aim of the paper is to show an insider’s perspective of the ways in which Czech Pagans relate to the problematics of transgender, and its connection with the vaguely understood concept of shamanism. Due to the problematic nature of the informants’ experience, the paper uses the narrative and episodic interview approach. Free narration enabled the interviewee to use their own spontaneous language to tell the stories of their life with minimal influence from the interviewer.
Religion and society in Central and Eastern Europe, 2021
This paper presents a specific situation concerning the Czech Pagan community, mainly through the... more This paper presents a specific situation concerning the Czech Pagan community, mainly through the narrative of the actors. Using the emic approach, the aim of the paper is to show an insider’s perspective of the ways in which Czech Pagans relate to the problematics of transgender, and its connection with the vaguely understood concept of shamanism. Due to the problematic nature of the informants’ experience, the paper uses the narrative and episodic interview approach. Free narration enabled the interviewee to use their own spontaneous language to tell the stories of their life with minimal influence from the interviewer.
Reflexivity was a revolutionary idea in the 1970s and 80s but over the years it became an intelle... more Reflexivity was a revolutionary idea in the 1970s and 80s but over the years it became an intellectual dogma which, as I have noticed several times, is often used simplistically by scholars facing diverse methodological problems. In these cases, reflexivity is understood simply as being conscious of the self in a given situation and it seems to be a solution and cure-all for most troubles encountered in the field. The last time I came across this was when a scholar studying Christian music was asked how she could study Christianity ‘objectively’ being a Christian herself and therefore involved. The answer was: “I need a great deal of self-reflexivity,” and the answer was accepted. In this sense, it would seem that being reflexive helps towards being objective. In the sense most pronounced in academia, reflexivity expresses the awareness of anthropologists engaged in fieldwork of the epistemological, political and ideological forces, as well as the emotional and intellectual setup an...
Acta Ethnographica Hungarica, 2011
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Papers by Kamila Velkoborská