03631nam 2200817 a 450 991079032100332120200520144314.01-282-25429-497866138149440-85745-483-810.1515/9780857454836(CKB)2670000000230735(EBL)982096(OCoLC)806520987(SSID)ssj0000740972(PQKBManifestationID)12360757(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000740972(PQKBWorkID)10701709(PQKB)10292593(MiAaPQ)EBC982096(Au-PeEL)EBL982096(CaPaEBR)ebr10583760(CaONFJC)MIL381494(DE-B1597)637345(DE-B1597)9780857454836(EXLCZ)99267000000023073520111214d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFortune and the cursed[electronic resource] the sliding scale of time in Mongolian divination /Katherine SwancuttNew York Berghahn Books20121 online resource (283 p.)Epistemologies of healing ;v. 11Description based upon print version of record.0-85745-482-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 propagateEpistemologies of healing ;v. 11.BuriatsMongoliaBai͡andun SumReligionBuriatsMongoliaBai͡andun SumRites and ceremoniesBuriatsMongoliaBai͡andun SumSocial life and customsDivinationMongoliaBai͡andun SumDivinationChinaInner MongoliaBlessing and cursingMongoliaBai͡andun SumBlessing and cursingChinaInner MongoliaShamanismMongoliaShamanismChinaInner MongoliaSocial conflictMongoliaReligious aspectsBuriatsReligion.BuriatsRites and ceremonies.BuriatsSocial life and customs.DivinationDivinationBlessing and cursingBlessing and cursingShamanismShamanismSocial conflictReligious aspects.299/.42Swancutt Katherine1465024MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910790321003321Fortune and the cursed3674851UNINA