TY  - BOOK
AU  - Swancutt,Katherine
TI  - Fortune and the cursed: the sliding scale of time in Mongolian divination 
T2  - Epistemologies of Healing
SN  - 9780857454836
AV  - DK759.B8 S83 2012eb
U1  - 299/.42 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Buriats
KW  - Mongolia
KW  - Bai︠a︡ndun Sum
KW  - Religion
KW  - Rites and ceremonies
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Divination
KW  - China
KW  - Inner Mongolia
KW  - Blessing and cursing
KW  - Shamanism
KW  - Social conflict
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Mongoloid race
KW  - Spiritual healing
KW  - Conflict (Psychology)
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Asian People
KW  - Spiritual Therapies
KW  - Ceremonial Behavior
KW  - Conflict, Psychological
KW  - Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical
KW  - Religion and Medicine
KW  - Chine
KW  - Mongolie-Intérieure
KW  - Bénédiction et malédiction
KW  - Chamanisme
KW  - Mongolie
KW  - Race mongoloïde
KW  - Guérison par la foi
KW  - Conflit (Psychologie)
KW  - Médecine
KW  - Aspect religieux
KW  - BODY, MIND & SPIRIT
KW  - Spirituality
KW  - Paganism & Neo-Paganism
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Comparative Religion
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Cultural
KW  - fast
KW  - Burjaten
KW  - gnd
KW  - Schamanismus
KW  - Buddhismus
KW  - Hexerei
KW  - Orakel
KW  - Wahrsagen
KW  - Mongolei
KW  - Innere Mongolei
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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