Fortune and the cursed : the sliding scale of time in Mongolian divination

Fortune and the cursed : the sliding scale of time in Mongolian divination /

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 agains...

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Main Author: Swancutt, Katherine (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2012
Series:Epistemologies of healing.
Subjects:
Buriats > Mongolia > Bai︠a︡ndun Sum > Religion.
Buriats > Mongolia > Bai︠a︡ndun Sum > Rites and ceremonies.
Buriats > Mongolia > Bai︠a︡ndun Sum > Social life and customs.
Divination > Mongolia > Bai︠a︡ndun Sum.
Divination > China > Inner Mongolia.
Blessing and cursing > Mongolia > Bai︠a︡ndun Sum.
Blessing and cursing > China > Inner Mongolia.
Shamanism > Mongolia.
Shamanism > China > Inner Mongolia.
Social conflict > Mongolia > Religious aspects.
Mongoloid race.
Spiritual healing.
Conflict (Psychology)
Medicine > Religious aspects.
Asian People
Spiritual Therapies
Ceremonial Behavior
Conflict, Psychological
Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical
Religion and Medicine
Mongolia
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