Swancutt, Katherine. <br/><br/>
Fortune and the cursed  the sliding scale of time in Mongolian divination /  [electronic resource] : 
Katherine Swancutt. 
 - New York ;  Oxford :  Berghahn Books,  2012. 
 - 1 online resource (p) 
 - Epistemologies of Healing .
 - Epistemologies of healing. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/>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; 
<br/><br/> 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 against time' to produce innovative remedies that will improve their fallen fortunes at an unconventional pace. Drawing on parallels between social anthropology and chaos theory, the author gives an in-depth account of how Buryat shamans and their notion of fortune operate as 'strange attractors' who propagate. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780857454836 (electronic bk.) 0857454838 (electronic bk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>9786613814944 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label>381494  MIL 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Buriats--Religion.--Mongolia--Bai︠a︡ndun Sum<br/>Buriats--Rites and ceremonies.--Mongolia--Bai︠a︡ndun Sum<br/>Buriats--Social life and customs.--Mongolia--Bai︠a︡ndun Sum<br/>Divination--Mongolia--Bai︠a︡ndun Sum.<br/>Divination--China--Inner Mongolia.<br/>Blessing and cursing--Mongolia--Bai︠a︡ndun Sum.<br/>Blessing and cursing--China--Inner Mongolia.<br/>Shamanism--Mongolia.<br/>Shamanism--China--Inner Mongolia.<br/>Social conflict--Religious aspects.--Mongolia<br/>BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Spirituality / Paganism & Neo-Paganism<br/>RELIGION / Comparative Religion
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DK759.B8  / S83 2012eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>299/.42