Fortune and the Cursed The Sliding Scale of Time in Mongolian Divination 1st Edition by Katherine Swancutt ISBN 085745482X 9780857454829

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ISBN 10: 085745482X 

ISBN 13: 9780857454829

Author: atherine Swancutt

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 against time’ to produce innovative remedies that will improve their fallen fortunes at an unconventional pace. Drawing on parallels between social anthropology and chaos theory, the author gives an in-depth account of how Buryat shamans and their notion of fortune operate as ‘strange attractors’ who propagate the ongoing process of innovation-making. With its view into this long-term ‘cursing war’ between two shamanic factions in a rural Mongolian district, and the comparative findings on cursing in rural China, this book is a needed resource for anyone with an interest in the anthropology of religion, shamanism, witchcraft and genealogical change.

Table of contents:

Chapter 1. A Race against Time: Mongolian Fortune and the Anthropology of Magic
Chapter 2. Buryat Cosmology and the Timescales of Religious Practice
Chapter 3. Fortune, the Soul and Spiralling Returns
Chapter 4. Curses, Khel Am and the Omnipresence of Witchcraft
Chapter 5. Divination and the Inextensive Distance to Cursing Rivals
Chapter 6. An Unconventional Timescale: The Immediate Rise of Fortune

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