The anti-social contract : injurious talk and dangerous exchanges in Northern Mongolia / Lars Højer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Højer, Lars, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Montolia--Chandmanʹ Öndör (Khȯvsgȯl Aĭmag).

Ethnology.

Interpersonal relations--Montolia--Chandmanʹ Öndör (Khȯvsgȯl Aĭmag).

Interpersonal relations.

Social contract.

Suspicion--Montolia--Chandmanʹ Öndör (Khȯvsgȯl Aĭmag).

Suspicion.

Mongolia--Social life and customs.

Mongolia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Berghahn, [2019]

Summary:

Set in a remote district of villagers and nomadic pastoralists in the northernmost part of Mongolia, this book introduces a local world where social relationships are cast in witchcraft-like idioms of mistrust and suspicion. While the apparent social breakdown that followed the collapse of state socialism in Mongolia often implied a chaotic lack of social cohesion, this ethnography reveals an everyday universe where uncertain relations are as much internally cultivated in indigenous Mongolian perceptions of social relatedness, as they are externally confronted in postsocialist surroundings of unemployment and diminished social security.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Preface

Acknowledgements

Notes on Transliteration

Introduction. Creating Difference from Within

Chapter 1. Centralisation and Dispersal: A District in the Market Era

Chapter 2. Dangerous Communications: Injurious Talk and the Perils of Standing Out

Chapter 3. Safe Communications: Formality and Hierarchy

Chapter 4. Morality and Danger: Religious Practices and Buddhist Directions

Chapter 5. Concealed Agencies: Divination, Loss and Magical Objects

Conclusion

References

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781785332470

1785332473

OCLC:

1347247017