In this article, I explore the way sound itself is imbued with agency. By focusing on its transformative rather than mimetic qualities, I analyse how in ritual contexts people construct and experience relationships through sound. Taking as an example a curse deflection ritual in Tuva, I trace ideas about the production of sounds as key to shamanic vocal performances. Through showing how sounds facilitate intermittent oral, tactile, and visual encounters with nonhumans, I suggest that shamans voice spirits into being, thereby allowing sound and shamanic voice to become central aspects of navigating sociocosmic dynamics and removing curses. While illuminating further the importance which people ascribe to the fragmentary sensory experience of an ‘Other’, I explore how sounds make spirits materially present and how this, in turn, shapes and validates the potency of shamanic practice.

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发出声音：声音的力量和图瓦（Kyzyl）中的诅咒现象

在本文中，我探讨了声音本身充满代理的方式。通过关注其变革性而非模仿性，我分析了人们在仪式语境中如何通过声音来构建和体验关系。以图瓦人的诅咒偏向仪式为例，我追溯了有关声音产生的想法，这些声音是萨满人声乐表演的关键。通过展示声音如何促进与非人类的间歇性口头，触觉和视觉接触，我建议萨满的声音精神得以形成，从而使声音和萨满的声音成为导航社会宇宙动力学和消除诅咒的主要方面。在进一步阐明人们归因于“其他”的零碎感官体验的重要性的同时，我探索了声音如何使精神实质性地呈现出来，以及这又是如何实现的，