Details

Subject(s)

• Buriats—Mongolia—Bai͡andun Sum—Religion [Browse]
• Buriats—Mongolia—Bai͡andun Sum—Rites and ceremonies [Browse]
• Buriats—Mongolia—Bai͡andun Sum—Social life and customs [Browse]
• Divination—Mongolia—Bai͡andun Sum [Browse]
• Divination—China—Inner Mongolia [Browse]
• Blessing and cursing—Mongolia—Bai͡andun Sum [Browse]
• Blessing and cursing—China—Inner Mongolia [Browse]
• Shamanism—Mongolia [Browse]
• Shamanism—China—Inner Mongolia [Browse]
• Social conflict—Mongolia—Religious aspects [Browse]

Series

• Epistemologies of healing [More in this series]
• Epistemologies of Healing

Summary note

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.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

ISBN

• 9780857454836 ((electronic bk.))
• 0857454838 ((electronic bk.))

Other standard number

• 9786613814944
• 40021126483

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