Fortune and the cursed the sliding scale of time in Mongolian divination /
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2012.
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Series: | Epistemologies of healing ;
v. 11. |
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Online Access: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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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.