Fortune and the cursed [electronic resource] : the sliding scale of time in Mongolian divination / Katherine Swancutt.
By: Swancutt, Katherine.
Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm).
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BookSeries: Epistemologies of healing: v. 11.Publisher: New York : Berghahn Books, 2012Description: xx, 263 p. : ill., map.Subject(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 aspectsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 299/.42 Online resources: Click to View | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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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. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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