TY  - BOOK
AU  - Swancutt,Katherine
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Fortune and the cursed: the sliding scale of time in Mongolian divination 
T2  - Epistemologies of healing
AV  - DK759.B8 S83 2012eb
U1  - 299/.42 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Buriats
KW  - Mongolia
KW  - Ba�i�andun Sum
KW  - Religion
KW  - Rites and ceremonies
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Divination
KW  - China
KW  - Inner Mongolia
KW  - Blessing and cursing
KW  - Shamanism
KW  - Social conflict
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10583760
ER  -