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

SeriesEpistemologies 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 241-247) and index.
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LCCN 2011051786
ISBN9780857454829 (hardback : alkaline paper)

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