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

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Huvudupphov: Swancutt, Katherine
Institutionellt upphov: ebrary, Inc
Materialtyp: Elektronisk E-bok
Språk:engelska
Utgiven: New York : Berghahn Books, 2012.
Serie:Epistemologies of healing ; v. 11.
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Innehållsförteckning:
  • 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.