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Fortune and the cursed : the sliding scale of time in Mongolian divination / Katherine Swancutt.
Penn Museum Library DK759.B8 S83 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Swancutt, Katherine.
- Series:
- Epistemologies of healing ; v. 11.
- Epistemologies of healing ; volume 11
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Buriats--Mongolia--Bai͡andun Sum--Religion.
- Buriats.
- Buriats--Mongolia--Bai͡andun Sum--Rites and ceremonies.
- Buriats--Mongolia--Bai͡andun Sum--Social life and customs.
- Divination--Mongolia--Bai͡andun Sum.
- Divination.
- Divination--China--Inner Mongolia.
- Blessing and cursing--Mongolia--Bai͡andun Sum.
- Blessing and cursing.
- Blessing and cursing--China--Inner Mongolia.
- Shamanism--Mongolia.
- Shamanism.
- Shamanism--China--Inner Mongolia.
- Social conflict--Mongolia--Religious aspects.
- Social conflict.
- Manners and customs.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- Religion.
- Mongolia.
- China--Inner Mongolia.
- Mongolia--Bai︠a︡ndun Sum.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 263 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2012.
- Summary:
- Drawing on her 16 months of fieldwork among two rural districts of Buryats, in Mongolia and China, Swancutt (social anthropology, U. of Oxford) presents an extended case study from Bayandun showing that innovation in magical remedies is a common Muryat strategy for addressing crisis situations. She discusses Mongolian fortune and the anthropology of magic; Buryat cosmology and the timescales of religious practice; fortune, the soul, and spiraling returns; curses khel am, and the omnipresence of witchcraft; divination and the inextensive distance to cursing rivals; and an unconventional timescale: the immediate rise of fortune. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780857454829
- 085745482X
- OCLC:
- 768168255
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