Introduction: Creating difference from within -- Centralisation and dispersal : Chandman'-Ondor district in the market era -- Dangerous communications : injurious talk and the perils of standing out -- Safe communications : formality and hierarchy -- Morality and danger : religious practices and Buddhist directions -- Concealed agencies : divination, loss and magical objects
Summary
"Set in a remote district of villagers and nomadic pastoralists in the northernmost part of Mongolia, Højer introduces a local world, where social relationships are cast in witchcraft-like idioms of mistrust and suspicion. While the apparent social breakdown that followed the collapse of state socialism in Mongolia often implied a chaotic lack of social cohesion, this ethnography reveals an everyday universe where uncertain relations are as much internally cultivated in Indigenous Mongolian perceptions of social relatedness, as it is externally confronted in postsocialist surroundings of unemployment and diminished social security"-- Provided by publisher
Analysis
Collapse of State Socialism
Mongolia
Postcolonial
Shamanism
Socially Distributed Persons
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
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