Fortune and the cursed : the sliding scale of time in Mongolian divination /

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Innovation-making is a classic theme in anthropology that reveals how people fine-tune their ontologies, live in the world and conceive of it as they do. This ethnographic study is an entrance into the world of Buryat Mongol divination, where a group of cursed shamans undertake the 'race agains...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Swancutt, Katherine (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2012.
Colección:Epistemologies of healing.
Temas:
Buriats > Mongolia > Bai͡andun Sum > Religion.
Buriats > Mongolia > Bai͡andun Sum > Rites and ceremonies.
Buriats > Mongolia > Bai͡andun Sum > Social life and customs.
Divination > Mongolia > Bai͡andun Sum.
Divination > China > Inner Mongolia.
Blessing and cursing > Mongolia > Bai͡andun Sum.
Blessing and cursing > China > Inner Mongolia.
Shamanism > Mongolia.
Shamanism > China > Inner Mongolia.
Social conflict > Mongolia > Religious aspects.
Mongoloid race.
Spiritual healing.
Conflict (Psychology)
Medicine > Religious aspects.
Asian People.
Spiritual Therapies
Ceremonial Behavior
Conflict, Psychological
Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical
Religion and Medicine
Divination > Chine > Mongolie-Intérieure.
Bénédiction et malédiction > Chine > Mongolie-Intérieure.
Chamanisme > Mongolie.
Chamanisme > Chine > Mongolie-Intérieure.
Race mongoloïde.
Guérison par la foi.
Conflit (Psychologie)
Médecine > Aspect religieux.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Spirituality > Paganism & Neo-Paganism.
RELIGION > Comparative Religion.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Blessing and cursing.
Buriats > Religion.
Buriats > Social life and customs.
Divination.
Shamanism.
Social conflict > Religious aspects.
Burjaten
Schamanismus
Buddhismus
Hexerei
Orakel
Wahrsagen
Mongolia
China > Inner Mongolia.
Mongolia.
Mongolia > Bai͡andun Sum.
Mongolei
Innere Mongolei
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Tables and Figures; Acknowledgements; Cast of Characters; Preface; Chapter 1
  • A Race Against Time: Mongolian Fortune and the Anthropology of Magic; Chapter 2
  • Buryat Cosmology and the Timescales of Religious Practice; Chapter 3
  • Fortune, the Soul and Spiralling Returns; Chapter 4
  • Curses, Khel Am and the Omnipresence of Witchcraft; Chapter 5
  • Divination and the Inextensive Distance to Cursing Rivals; Chapter 6
  • An Unconventional Timescale: The Immediate Rise of Fortune; Glossary of Vernacular Terms; References; Index.

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