Fortune and the cursed the sliding scale of time in Mongolian divination / Katherine Swancutt.
| Author/creator | Swancutt, Katherine |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2012. |
| Description | xx, 263 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Epistemologies of healing ; volume 11 |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-247) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2011051786 |
| ISBN | 9780857454829 (hardback : alkaline paper) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |