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Subject(s)

• Blessing and cursing—Mongolia—Bai︠a︡ndun Sum [Browse]
• Divination—Mongolia—Bai︠a︡ndun Sum [Browse]
• Buriats—Mongolia—Bai︠a︡ndun Sum—Social life and customs [Browse]
• Buriats—Mongolia—Bai︠a︡ndun Sum—Rites and ceremonies [Browse]
• Buriats—Mongolia—Bai︠a︡ndun Sum—Religion [Browse]
• Divination—China—Inner Mongolia [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 v. 11. [More in this series]
• Epistemologies of healing ; vol. 11 [More in this series]

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 (pages 241-247) and index.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• A race against time: Mongolian fortune and the anthropology of magic
• Buryat cosmology and the timescales of religious practice
• Fortune, the soul and spiralling returns
• Curses, khel am and the omnipresence of witchcraft
• Divination and the inextensive distance to cursing rivals
• An unconventional timescale: the immediate rise of fortune
• Glossary of vernacular terms.

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ISBN

• 9780857454829 (hardback : alkaline paper)
• 085745482X (hardback : alkaline paper)
• 9780857454836 (ebook)
• 0857454838 (ebook)

LCCN

^^2011051786

OCLC

768168255

RCP

H - S

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