03945cam a2200757Mi 4500 ocn806520987 OCoLC 20200709055556.0 m d cr |n| 111214s2012 nyu ob 000 0 eng d CDX CDX OCLCO EBLCP MHW YDXCP E7B N$T 804662787 9780857454836 (electronic bk.) 0857454838 (electronic bk.) 085745482X 9780857454829 0857454838 9786613814944 (OCoLC)806520987 (OCoLC)804662787 476717 (N$T) 381494 MIL a-mp--- a-cc-im DK759.B8 S83 2012eb OCC 036020 bisacsh REL 017000 bisacsh 299/.42 23 N$TA Swancutt, Katherine. Fortune and the cursed [electronic resource] : the sliding scale of time in Mongolian divination / Katherine Swancutt. New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2012. 1205 1 online resource (p) text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Epistemologies of Healing Includes bibliographical references. Description based on print version record. 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; 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. Buriats Mongolia Bai︠a︡ndun Sum Religion. Buriats Mongolia Bai︠a︡ndun Sum Rites and ceremonies. Buriats Mongolia Bai︠a︡ndun Sum Social life and customs. Divination Mongolia Bai︠a︡ndun Sum. Divination China Inner Mongolia. Blessing and cursing Mongolia Bai︠a︡ndun Sum. Blessing and cursing China Inner Mongolia. Shamanism Mongolia. Shamanism China Inner Mongolia. Social conflict Mongolia Religious aspects. BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Spirituality / Paganism & Neo-Paganism bisacsh RELIGION / Comparative Religion bisacsh Electronic books. Print version: (DLC)2011051786 9786613814944 Epistemologies of healing. http://lib.myilibrary.com?id=381494 http://public.eblib.com/EBLPublic/PublicView.do?ptiID=982096 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=476717 Coutts Information Services COUT 23099591 EBL - Ebook Library EBLB EBL982096 YBP Library Services YANK 9454836 ebrary EBRY ebr10583760 cpp1723AUTO 02 N$T 51539 51539