Fortune and the cursed : the sliding scale of time in Mongolian divination / Katherine Swancutt.
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TextSeries: Epistemologies of healingPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (xx, 263 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - 9780857454836
- 0857454838
- 1282254294
- 9781282254299
- 9786613814944
- 6613814946
- 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
- Asian People
- Spiritual Therapies
- Ceremonial Behavior
- Conflict, Psychological
- Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical
- Religion and Medicine
- Mongolia
- Divination -- Chine -- Mongolie-Intérieure
- Bénédiction et malédiction -- Chine -- Mongolie-Intérieure
- Chamanisme -- Mongolie
- Chamanisme -- Chine -- Mongolie-Intérieure
- Race mongoloïde
- Guérison par la foi
- Conflit (Psychologie)
- Médecine -- Aspect religieux
- 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
- Mongolia
- Mongolia -- Bai︠a︡ndun Sum
- Burjaten
- Schamanismus
- Buddhismus
- Hexerei
- Orakel
- Wahrsagen
- Mongolei
- Innere Mongolei
- 299/.42 23
- DK759.B8 S83 2012eb
- 2013 I-595
- WB 885
- online - EBSCO
- 73.59
- 73.58
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
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English.