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the sliding scale of time in Mongolian divination
By Katherine Swancutt
"Fortune and the cursed" was published by Berghahn Books in 2012 - New York, it has 284 pages and the language of the book is English.
“Fortune and the cursed” Metadata:
- Title: Fortune and the cursed
- Author: Katherine Swancutt
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 284
- Publisher: Berghahn Books
- Publish Date: 2012
- Publish Location: New York
“Fortune and the cursed” Subjects and Themes:
- Subjects: ➤ Social life and customs - Blessing and cursing - Buriats - Religious aspects - Rites and ceremonies - Religion - Social conflict - Shamanism - Divination - Asia, social life and customs - Mongols - Asian Continental Ancestry Group - Spiritual Therapies - Ceremonial Behavior - Conflict (Psychology) - Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical - Religion and Medicine - Psychological Conflict
- Places: Inner Mongolia - Bai︠a︡ndun Sum - China - Mongolia
Edition Specifications:
- Pagination: p ;
Edition Identifiers:
- The Open Library ID: OL25162792M - OL16451605W
- Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) ID: 768168255
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 2011051786
- ISBN-13: 9780857454829 - 9780857454836
- All ISBNs: 9780857454829 - 9780857454836
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"Fortune and the cursed" Table Of Contents:
- 1- A race against time: Mongolian fortune and the anthropology of magic
- 2- Buryat cosmology and the timescales of religious practice
- 3- Fortune, the soul and spiralling returns
- 4- Curses, khel am and the omnipresence of witchcraft
- 5- Divination and the inextensive distance to cursing rivals
- 6- An unconventional timescale: the immediate rise of fortune
- 7- Glossary of vernacular terms.
"Fortune and the cursed" Description:
The Open Library:
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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