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Author Swancutt, Katherine, author.

Title Fortune and the cursed : the sliding scale of time in Mongolian divination / Katherine Swancutt.

Publication Info. New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2012.
©2012
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Description 1 online resource (xx, 263 pages) : illustrations
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Series Epistemologies of Healing
Epistemologies of healing.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Summary 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.
Language English.
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Subject Buriats -- Mongolia -- Bai︠a︡ndun Sum -- Religion.
Buriats -- Mongolia -- Bai︠a︡ndun Sum -- Rites and ceremonies.
Buriats -- Mongolia -- Bai︠a︡ndun Sum -- Social life and customs.
Divination -- Mongolia -- Bai︠a︡ndun Sum.
Divination -- China -- Inner Mongolia.
Blessing and cursing -- Mongolia -- Bai︠a︡ndun Sum.
Blessing and cursing -- China -- Inner Mongolia.
Shamanism -- Mongolia.
Shamanism -- China -- Inner Mongolia.
Social conflict -- Mongolia -- Religious aspects.
Mongoloid race.
Spiritual healing.
Conflict (Psychology)
Medicine -- Religious aspects.
Mongolia
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Spirituality -- Paganism & Neo-Paganism.
RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Spiritual healing
Mongoloid race
Medicine -- Religious aspects
Conflict (Psychology)
Blessing and cursing
Buriats -- Religion
Buriats -- Social life and customs
Divination
Shamanism
Social conflict -- Religious aspects
China -- Inner Mongolia https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39QbtfRC3Cxmy8R9BvdXVMrWc
Mongolia https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJm9cxrHHp4ckGhwYX8XBP
Mongolia -- Bai︠a︡ndun Sum
Other Form: Print version: 9786613814944 (DLC) 2011051786
ISBN 9780857454836 (electronic bk.)
0857454838 (electronic bk.)
9780857454829 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
085745482X (hardback ; alkaline paper)
1282254294
9781282254299
9786613814944
6613814946
Standard No. 9786613814944
40021126483

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