Fortune and the cursed : the sliding scale of time in Mongolian divination / / Katherine Swancutt.
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| Superior document: | Epistemologies of healing ; v. 11 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Epistemologies of healing ;
v. 11. |
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| Physical Description: | xx, 263 p. :; ill., map. |
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Table of Contents:
- A race against time: Mongolian fortune and the anthropology of magic
- Buryat cosmology and the timescales of religious practice
- Fortune, the soul and spiralling returns
- Curses, khel am and the omnipresence of witchcraft
- Divination and the inextensive distance to cursing rivals
- An unconventional timescale: the immediate rise of fortune
- Glossary of vernacular terms.