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Autore |
Swancutt Katherine |
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Titolo |
Fortune and the cursed [[electronic resource] ] : the sliding scale of time in Mongolian divination / / Katherine Swancutt |
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New York, : Berghahn Books, 2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-25429-4 |
9786613814944 |
0-85745-483-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (283 p.) |
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Collana |
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Epistemologies of healing ; ; v. 11 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Buriats - Mongolia - Bai͡andun Sum - Religion |
Buriats - Mongolia - Bai͡andun Sum - Rites and ceremonies |
Buriats - Mongolia - Bai͡andun Sum - Social life and customs |
Divination - Mongolia - Bai͡andun Sum |
Divination - China - Inner Mongolia |
Blessing and cursing - Mongolia - Bai͡andun Sum |
Blessing and cursing - China - Inner Mongolia |
Shamanism - Mongolia |
Shamanism - China - Inner Mongolia |
Social conflict - Mongolia - Religious aspects |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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A race against time: Mongolian fortune and the anthropology of magic -- Buryat cosmology and the timescales of religious practice -- Fortune, the soul and spiralling returns -- Curses, khel am and the omnipresence of witchcraft -- Divination and the inextensive distance to cursing rivals -- An unconventional timescale: the immediate rise of fortune -- Glossary of vernacular terms. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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