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The Anti-Social Contract : Injurious Talk and Dangerous Exchanges in Northern Mongolia / Lars Højer.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (216 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781785332463
  • 9781785332470
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.8009517 23/eng
LOC classification:
  • GN635.M65 H64 2019
  • GN635.M65
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: 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 socialism in Mongolia often implied a chaotic lack of social cohesion, this ethnography reveals an everyday universe where uncertain relations are as much internally cultivated in indigenous Mongolian perceptions of social relatedness, as they are externally confronted in postsocialist surroundings of unemployment and diminished social security.

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

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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 socialism in Mongolia often implied a chaotic lack of social cohesion, this ethnography reveals an everyday universe where uncertain relations are as much internally cultivated in indigenous Mongolian perceptions of social relatedness, as they are externally confronted in postsocialist surroundings of unemployment and diminished social security.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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