05991cam a2200937Ma 4500 ocn732957136 OCoLC 20200709060024.0 m d cr cn||||||||| 101104s2011 nyuabd ob 001 0 eng d E7B eng pn E7B OCLCQ YDXCP GPM OCLCQ JSTOR OCLCF N$T COO OCL EBLCP OCLCQ DEBSZ OCLCQ YDX OCLCO OCLCQ LOA OCLCQ AGLDB PIFAG FVL ZCU MERUC OCLCQ IOG DEGRU 964292376 964549359 972504429 987945055 992021133 992464422 993760067 994094197 9780801460937 (electronic bk.) 080146093X (electronic bk.) 0801449103 (cloth ; alk. paper) 9780801449109 (cloth ; alk. paper) 0801476208 (pbk. ; alk. paper) 9780801476204 (pbk. ; alk. paper) 9780801449109 (cloth ; alk. paper) 9780801476204 (pbk. ; alk. paper) 10.7591/9780801460937 doi 673735 (N$T) (OCoLC)732957136 (OCoLC)964292376 (OCoLC)964549359 (OCoLC)972504429 (OCoLC)987945055 (OCoLC)992021133 (OCoLC)992464422 (OCoLC)993760067 (OCoLC)994094197 22573/ctt4r12z JSTOR a-mp--- BL2370.S5 P36 2011eb SOC002010 bisacsh POL 038000 bisacsh SOC 002010 bisacsh SOC 022000 bisacsh 306.09517/309049 22 MAIN Pedersen, Morten Axel, 1969- Not quite shamans : spirit worlds and political lives in northern Mongolia / Morten Axel Pedersen. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2011. 1 online resource (xii, 250 pages) : illustrations, maps. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Culture and society after socialism Includes bibliographical references and index. Shamanic states -- The shamanic predicament -- Layered lands, layered minds -- The shaman's two bodies -- Mischievous souls. Print version record. The forms of contemporary society and politics are often understood to be diametrically opposed to any expression of the supernatural; what happens when those forms are themselves regarded as manifestations of spirits and other occult phenomena? In Not Quite Shamans, Morten Axel Pedersen explores how the Darhad people of Northern Mongolia's remote Shishged Valley have understood and responded to the disruptive transition to postsocialism by engaging with shamanic beliefs and practices associated with the past. For much of the twentieth century, Mongolia's communist rulers attempted to eradicate shamanism and the shamans who once served as spiritual guides and community leaders. With the transition from a collectivized economy and a one-party state to a global capitalist market and liberal democracy in the 1990s, the people of the Shishged were plunged into a new and harsh world that seemed beyond their control. 'Not-quite-shamans'-young, unemployed men whose undirected energies erupted in unpredictable, frightening bouts of violence and drunkenness that seemed occult in their excess- became a serious threat to the fabric of community life. Drawing on long-term fieldwork in Northern Mongolia, Pedersen details how, for many Darhads, the postsocialist state itself has become shamanic in nature. In the ideal version of traditional Darhad shamanism, shamans can control when and for what purpose their souls travel, whether to other bodies, landscapes, or worlds. Conversely, caught between uncontrollable spiritual powers and an excessive display of physical force, the 'not-quite-shamans' embody the chaotic forms-the free market, neoliberal reform, and government corruption-that have created such upheaval in peoples lives. As an experimental ethnography of recent political and economic transformations in Mongolia through the defamiliarizing prism of shamans and their lack, Not Quite Shamans is an attempt to write about as well as theorize postsocialism, and shamanism, in a new way. In English. Master record variable field(s) change: 651 Shamanism Political aspects Mongolia. Post-communism Mongolia. Mongolia Politics and government 1992- SOCIAL SCIENCE Anthropology Cultural. bisacsh POLITICAL SCIENCE Public Policy Cultural Policy. bisacsh SOCIAL SCIENCE Popular Culture. bisacsh Politics and government fast (OCoLC)fst01919741 Post-communism. fast (OCoLC)fst01072730 Shamanism Political aspects. fast (OCoLC)fst01115163 Mongolia. fast (OCoLC)fst01208752 Religion gnd Politik gnd Postkommunismus gnd Gesellschaftsleben gnd Schamanismus gnd Mongolei gnd Schamanismus. idszbz Religion. idszbz Politik. idszbz Mongolei. idszbz Since 1992 fast Electronic books. Print version: Pedersen, Morten Axel, 1969- Not quite shamans. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2011 (DLC) 2010047278 Culture and society after socialism. EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=673735 EBL - Ebook Library EBLB EBL3138165 ebrary EBRY ebr10468044 EBSCOhost EBSC 673735 YBP Library Services YANK 11974185 YBP Library Services YANK 6137584 De Gruyter DEGR 9780801460937 92 N$T 54234 54234