LEADER 04156nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910821858803321 005 20231105044457.0 010 $a0-8014-6141-3 010 $a0-8014-6093-X 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801460937 035 $a(CKB)2550000000036208 035 $a(OCoLC)732957136 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10468044 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000529820 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11345805 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000529820 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10560904 035 $a(PQKB)10968010 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138165 035 $a(DE-B1597)481747 035 $a(OCoLC)987945055 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801460937 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138165 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10468044 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_68261 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000036208 100 $a20101104d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNot quite shamans $espirit worlds and political lives in northern Mongolia /$fMorten Axel Pedersen 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (264 p.) 225 1 $aCulture and society after socialism 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8014-7620-8 311 $a0-8014-4910-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aShamanic states -- The shamanic predicament -- Layered lands, layered minds -- The shaman's two bodies -- Mischievous souls. 330 $aThe 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 post socialism 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 1990's, 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 post socialist 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 post socialism, and shamanism, in a new way. 410 0$aCulture and society after socialism. 606 $aShamanism$xPolitical aspects$zMongolia 606 $aPost-communism$zMongolia 607 $aMongolia$xPolitics and government$y1992- 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aShamanism$xPolitical aspects 615 0$aPost-communism 676 $a306.09517/309049 700 $aPedersen$b Morten Axel$f1969-$01617552 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910821858803321 996 $aNot quite shamans$94053025 997 $aUNINA