The Anti-Social Contract : : Injurious Talk and Dangerous Exchanges in Northern Mongolia / / Lars Højer.
Set in a remote district of villagers and nomadic pastoralists in the northernmost part of Mongolia, this book introduces a local world where social relationships are cast in witchcraft-like idioms of mistrust and suspicion. While the apparent social breakdown that followed the collapse of state soc...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Transliteration
- Introduction. Creating Difference from Within
- Chapter 1. Centralisation and Dispersal: A District in the Market Era
- Chapter 2. Dangerous Communications: Injurious Talk and the Perils of Standing Out
- Chapter 3. Safe Communications: Formality and Hierarchy
- Chapter 4. Morality and Danger: Religious Practices and Buddhist Directions
- Chapter 5. Concealed Agencies: Divination, Loss and Magical Objects
- Conclusion
- References
- Index