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Innovation-making is a classic theme in anthropology that reveals how people fine-tune their ontologies, live in the world and conceive of it as they do. This ethnographic study is an entrance into the world of Buryat Mongol divination, where a group of cursed shamans undertake the ‘race against tim...

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Fortune and the Cursed : The Sliding Scale of Time in Mongolian Divination / Katherine Swancutt.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Cast of Characters -- Preface -- Chapter 1. A Race Against Time: Mongolian Fortune and the Anthropology of Magic -- Chapter 2. Buryat Cosmology and the Timescales of Religious Practice -- Chapter 3. Fortune, the Soul and Spiralling Returns -- Chapter 4. Curses, Khel Am and the Omnipresence of Witchcraft -- Chapter 5. Divination and the Inextensive Distance to Cursing Rivals -- Chapter 6. An Unconventional Timescale: The Immediate Rise of Fortune -- Glossary of Vernacular Terms -- References -- Index
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Innovation-making is a classic theme in anthropology that reveals how people fine-tune their ontologies, live in the world and conceive of it as they do. This ethnographic study is an entrance into the world of Buryat Mongol divination, where a group of cursed shamans undertake the ‘race against time’ to produce innovative remedies that will improve their fallen fortunes at an unconventional pace. Drawing on parallels between social anthropology and chaos theory, the author gives an in-depth account of how Buryat shamans and their notion of fortune operate as ‘strange attractors’ who propagate the ongoing process of innovation-making. With its view into this long-term ‘cursing war’ between two shamanic factions in a rural Mongolian district, and the comparative findings on cursing in rural China, this book is a needed resource for anyone with an interest in the anthropology of religion, shamanism, witchcraft and genealogical change.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
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Blessing and cursing China Inner Mongolia.
Blessing and cursing Mongolia Bai︠a︡ndun Sum.
Buriats Mongolia Bai︠a︡ndun Sum Religion.
Buriats Mongolia Bai︠a︡ndun Sum Rites and ceremonies.
Buriats Mongolia Bai︠a︡ndun Sum Social life and customs.
Conflict (Psychology).
Divination China Inner Mongolia.
Divination Mongolia Bai︠a︡ndun Sum.
Medicine Religious aspects.
Mongoloid race.
Shamanism China Inner Mongolia.
Shamanism Mongolia.
Social conflict Mongolia Religious aspects.
Spiritual healing.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. bisacsh
Medical Anthropology, Anthropology of Religion.
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Fortune and the Cursed : The Sliding Scale of Time in Mongolian Divination /
Epistemologies of Healing ;
Frontmatter --
Contents --
List of Tables and Figures --
Acknowledgements --
Cast of Characters --
Preface --
Chapter 1. A Race Against Time: Mongolian Fortune and the Anthropology of Magic --
Chapter 2. Buryat Cosmology and the Timescales of Religious Practice --
Chapter 3. Fortune, the Soul and Spiralling Returns --
Chapter 4. Curses, Khel Am and the Omnipresence of Witchcraft --
Chapter 5. Divination and the Inextensive Distance to Cursing Rivals --
Chapter 6. An Unconventional Timescale: The Immediate Rise of Fortune --
Glossary of Vernacular Terms --
References --
Index
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title_alt Frontmatter --
Contents --
List of Tables and Figures --
Acknowledgements --
Cast of Characters --
Preface --
Chapter 1. A Race Against Time: Mongolian Fortune and the Anthropology of Magic --
Chapter 2. Buryat Cosmology and the Timescales of Religious Practice --
Chapter 3. Fortune, the Soul and Spiralling Returns --
Chapter 4. Curses, Khel Am and the Omnipresence of Witchcraft --
Chapter 5. Divination and the Inextensive Distance to Cursing Rivals --
Chapter 6. An Unconventional Timescale: The Immediate Rise of Fortune --
Glossary of Vernacular Terms --
References --
Index
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contents Frontmatter --
Contents --
List of Tables and Figures --
Acknowledgements --
Cast of Characters --
Preface --
Chapter 1. A Race Against Time: Mongolian Fortune and the Anthropology of Magic --
Chapter 2. Buryat Cosmology and the Timescales of Religious Practice --
Chapter 3. Fortune, the Soul and Spiralling Returns --
Chapter 4. Curses, Khel Am and the Omnipresence of Witchcraft --
Chapter 5. Divination and the Inextensive Distance to Cursing Rivals --
Chapter 6. An Unconventional Timescale: The Immediate Rise of Fortune --
Glossary of Vernacular Terms --
References --
Index
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