Not Quite Shamans : : Spirit Worlds and Political Lives in Northern Mongolia / / Morten Axel Pedersen.
The forms of contemporary society and politics are often understood to be diametrically opposed to any expression of the supernatural; what happens when those forms are themselves regarded as manifestations of spirits and other occult phenomena? In Not Quite Shamans, Morten Axel Pedersen explores ho...
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