TY  - BOOK
AU  - Højer,Lars
TI  - The Anti-Social Contract: Injurious Talk and Dangerous Exchanges in Northern Mongolia 
SN  - 9781785332463
AV  - GN635.M65 H64 2019
U1  - 305.8009517 23/eng
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Montolia
KW  - Chandmanʹ Öndör (Khȯvsgȯl Aĭmag)
KW  - Interpersonal relations
KW  - Social contract
KW  - Suspicion
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Collapse of State Socialism
KW  - Mongolia
KW  - Postcolonial
KW  - Shamanism
KW  - Socially Distributed Persons
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785332470?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781785332470
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781785332470/original
ER  -