Fortune and the cursed [electronic resource] : the sliding scale of time in Mongolian divination / Katherine Swancutt.
2012
DK759.B8 S83 2012
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Fortune and the cursed [electronic resource] : the sliding scale of time in Mongolian divination / Katherine Swancutt.
Author
Swancutt, Katherine.
ISBN
9780857454829 (hardback alkaline paper)
9780857454836 (electronic book)
9780857454836 (electronic book)
Publication Details
New York : Berghahn Books, 2012.
Language
English
Description
xx, 263 p. : ill., map.
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DK759.B8 S83 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification
299/.42
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Access limited to authorized users.
Series
Epistemologies of healing ; v. 11.
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Table of Contents
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.
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.