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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Swancutt, Katherine
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2012.
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.