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[null,null,"Autore",null,"Swancutt Katherine"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"Fortune and the cursed [[electronic resource] ] : the sliding scale of time in Mongolian divination / / Katherine Swancutt"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"New York, : Berghahn Books, 2012"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"1-282-25429-4"]
[{"$nulls":4},"9786613814944"]
[{"$nulls":4},"0-85745-483-8"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (283 p.)"]
[null,null,"Collana",null,"Epistemologies of healing ; ; v. 11"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"299/.42"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Buriats - Mongolia - Bai͡andun Sum - Religion"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Buriats - Mongolia - Bai͡andun Sum - Rites and ceremonies"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Buriats - Mongolia - Bai͡andun Sum - Social life and customs"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Divination - Mongolia - Bai͡andun Sum"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Divination - China - Inner Mongolia"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Blessing and cursing - Mongolia - Bai͡andun Sum"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Blessing and cursing - China - Inner Mongolia"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Shamanism - Mongolia"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Shamanism - China - Inner Mongolia"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Social conflict - Mongolia - Religious aspects"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Electronic books."]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","Description based upon print version of record."]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references and index."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"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."]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","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-"]
[{"$nulls":4},"depth account of how Buryat shamans and their notion of fortune operate as 'strange attractors' who propagate"]