Fortune and the Cursed : : The Sliding Scale of Time in Mongolian Divination / / Katherine Swancutt.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Epistemologies of Healing ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (284 p.) |
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Table of 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