Fortune and the cursed [electronic resource] : the sliding scale of time in Mongolian divination / Katherine Swancutt.
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TextSeries: Epistemologies of healing ; v. 11.Publication details: New York : Berghahn Books, 2012.Description: xx, 263 p. : ill., mapSubject(s): - Buriats -- Mongolia -- Ba�i�andun Sum -- Religion
- Buriats -- Mongolia -- Ba�i�andun Sum -- Rites and ceremonies
- Buriats -- Mongolia -- Ba�i�andun Sum -- Social life and customs
- Divination -- Mongolia -- Ba�i�andun Sum
- Divination -- China -- Inner Mongolia
- Blessing and cursing -- Mongolia -- Ba�i�andun Sum
- Blessing and cursing -- China -- Inner Mongolia
- Shamanism -- Mongolia
- Shamanism -- China -- Inner Mongolia
- Social conflict -- Mongolia -- Religious aspects
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- DK759.B8 S83 2012eb
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.
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