The anti-social contract : injurious talk and dangerous exchanges in northern Mongolia /

"Set in a remote district of villagers and nomadic pastoralists in the northernmost part of Mongolia, Højer introduces a local world, where social relationships are cast in witchcraft-like idioms of mistrust and suspicion. While the apparent social breakdown that followed the collapse of state...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Højer, Lars (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2019.
Temas:
2000-2099
Ethnology > Montolia > Chandmanʹ Öndör (Khȯvsgȯl Aĭmag)
Interpersonal relations > Montolia > Chandmanʹ Öndör (Khȯvsgȯl Aĭmag)
Suspicion > Montolia > Chandmanʹ Öndör (Khȯvsgȯl Aĭmag)
Social contract.
Contrat social.
HISTORY > Asia > China.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
Suspicion.
Social conditions.
Interpersonal relations.
Ethnology.
Manners and customs.
Mongolian provinces.
Chandmanʹ Öndör (Khȯvsgȯl Aĭmag, Mongolia) > Social conditions > 21st century.
Chandmanʹ Öndör (Khȯvsgȯl Aĭmag, Mongolia) > Social life and customs > 21st century.
Mongolia.
Collapse of State Socialism.
Postcolonial.
Shamanism.
Socially Distributed Persons.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Creating difference from within
  • Centralisation and dispersal : Chandman'-Ondor district in the market era
  • Dangerous communications : injurious talk and the perils of standing out
  • Safe communications : formality and hierarchy
  • Morality and danger : religious practices and Buddhist directions
  • Concealed agencies : divination, loss and magical objects.

Ejemplares similares