the sliding scale of time in Mongolian divination Swancutt, Katherine. creator text bibliography Electronic books. nyu New York Oxford Berghahn Books 2012 monographic eng

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1 online resource (p) 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. 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; Katherine Swancutt. Includes bibliographical references. a-mp--- a-cc-im 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 RELIGION / Comparative Religion DK759.B8 S83 2012eb 299/.42 (DLC)2011051786 9780857454836 (electronic bk.) 0857454838 (electronic bk.) 381494 MIL http://lib.myilibrary.com?id=381494 http://public.eblib.com/EBLPublic/PublicView.do?ptiID=982096 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=476717 http://lib.myilibrary.com?id=381494 http://public.eblib.com/EBLPublic/PublicView.do?ptiID=982096 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=476717 CDX 111214 20200709055556.0 ocn806520987