TY  - BOOK
AU  - Swancutt,Katherine
TI  - Fortune and the cursed: the sliding scale of time in Mongolian divination 
T2  - Epistemologies of Healing
SN  - 9780857454836 (electronic bk.)
AV  - DK759.B8 S83 2012eb
U1  - 299/.42 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Buriats
KW  - Mongolia
KW  - Bai︠a︡ndun Sum
KW  - Religion
KW  - Rites and ceremonies
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Divination
KW  - China
KW  - Inner Mongolia
KW  - Blessing and cursing
KW  - Shamanism
KW  - Social conflict
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Spirituality / Paganism & Neo-Paganism
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - RELIGION / Comparative Religion
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; 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
N2  - 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
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