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

Author(s)

• Swancutt, Katherine

Bibliographic Information

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

Katherine Swancutt

（Epistemologies of healing, v. 11）

Berghahn Books, 2012

• : [hbk]

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-247) and index

Contents of Works

• 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

Details

• NCID: BB11492440
• ISBN:
  • 9780857454829
• LCCN: 2011051786
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York ; Oxford
• Pages/Volumes: xx, 263 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : DK759.B8
  • DC23 : 299/.42
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Buriats -- Mongolia -- Bai︠a︡ndun Sum -- Religion
  • LCSH : Buriats -- Mongolia -- Bai︠a︡ndun Sum -- Rites and ceremonies
  • LCSH : Buriats -- Mongolia -- Bai︠a︡ndun Sum -- Social life and customs
  • LCSH : Divination -- Mongolia -- Bai︠a︡ndun Sum
  • LCSH : Divination -- China -- Inner Mongolia
  • LCSH : Blessing and cursing -- Mongolia -- Bai︠a︡ndun Sum
  • LCSH : Blessing and cursing -- China -- Inner Mongolia
  • LCSH : Shamanism -- Mongolia
  • LCSH : Shamanism -- China -- Inner Mongolia
  • LCSH : Social conflict -- Mongolia -- Religious aspects
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA86029189