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Not quite shamans : spirit worlds and political lives in northern Mongolia / Morten Axel Pedersen.
LIBRA BL2370.S5 P36 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pedersen, Morten Axel, 1969-
- Series:
- Culture and society after socialism
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shamanism--Political aspects--Mongolia.
- Shamanism.
- Post-communism--Mongolia.
- Post-communism.
- Shamanism--Political aspects.
- Mongolia--Politics and government--1992-.
- Mongolia.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 250 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, [2011]
- Summary:
- The forms of contemporary society and politics are often understood to be diametrically opposed to any expression of the supernatural; what happens when those forms are themselves regarded as manifestations of spirits and other occult phenomena? In Not Quite Shamans, Morten Axel Pedersen explores how the Darhad people of northern Mongolia's remote Shishged Valley have understood and responded to the disruptive transition to postsocialism by engaging with shamanic beliefs and practices associated with the past. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Shamanic states
- The shamanic predicament
- Layered lands, layered minds
- The shaman's two bodies
- Mischievous souls.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780801449109
- 0801449103
- 9780801476204
- 0801476208
- OCLC:
- 681739321
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