Swancutt, Katherine. <br/><br/>
Fortune and the cursed  the sliding scale of time in Mongolian divination /  [electronic resource] : 
Katherine Swancutt. 
 - New York :  Berghahn Books,  2012. 
 - xx, 263 p. :  ill., map. 
 - Epistemologies of healing ;  v. 11 .
 - Epistemologies of healing ;  v. 11. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>Palo Alto, Calif. : <br/>ebrary, <br/>2013. <br/>Available via World Wide Web. <br/>Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Buriats--Religion.--Mongolia--Ba�i�andun Sum<br/>Buriats--Rites and ceremonies.--Mongolia--Ba�i�andun Sum<br/>Buriats--Social life and customs.--Mongolia--Ba�i�andun Sum<br/>Divination--Mongolia--Ba�i�andun Sum.<br/>Divination--China--Inner Mongolia.<br/>Blessing and cursing--Mongolia--Ba�i�andun Sum.<br/>Blessing and cursing--China--Inner Mongolia.<br/>Shamanism--Mongolia.<br/>Shamanism--China--Inner Mongolia.<br/>Social conflict--Religious aspects.--Mongolia
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DK759.B8  / S83 2012eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>299/.42