Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 284 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 566 g
Reihe: Epistemologies of Healing
The Sliding Scale of Time in Mongolian Divination
Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 284 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 566 g
Reihe: Epistemologies of Healing
ISBN: 978-0-85745-482-9
Verlag: Berghahn Books
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 propagate the ongoing process of innovation-making. With its view into this long-term ‘cursing war’ between two shamanic factions in a rural Mongolian district, and the comparative findings on cursing in rural China, this book is a needed resource for anyone with an interest in the anthropology of religion, shamanism, witchcraft and genealogical change.
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
Weitere Infos & Material
Acknowledgements
Cast of Characters
List of Tables and Figures
Preface
Chapter 1. A Race against Time: Mongolian Fortune and the Anthropology of Magic
Chapter 2. Buryat Cosmology and the Timescales of Religious Practice
Chapter 3. Fortune, the Soul and Spiralling Returns
Chapter 4. Curses, Khel Am and the Omnipresence of Witchcraft
Chapter 5. Divination and the Inextensive Distance to Cursing Rivals
Chapter 6. An Unconventional Timescale: The Immediate Rise of Fortune
Glossary of Vernacular Terms
References
Index
