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Author Buyandelger, Manduhai, author

Title Tragic spirits : shamanism, memory, and gender in contemporary Mongolia / Manduhai Buyandelger
Published Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2013
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Description 1 online resource (536 pages)
Contents Introduction: The return of the suppressed -- Mobile histories -- Technologies of forgetting, state socialism, and potential memories -- Genealogies of misfortune -- Thriving and silent stories -- Ironies of gender neutrality -- Persuasion and power -- Incomplete lives
Summary The collapse of socialism at the end of the 20th century brought devastating changes to Mongolia. Economic shock therapy - an immediate liberalization of trade and privatization of publicly owned assets - quickly led to impoverishment, especially in rural parts of the country, where 'Tragic Spirits' takes place. Following the travels of the nomadic Buryats, Manduhai Buyandelger tells a story not only of economic devastation but also a remarkable Buryat response to it - the revival of shamanic practices after decades of socialist suppression
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Shamanism -- Mongolia -- Bai︠a︡n-Uul Sum (Dornod Aĭmag) -- History -- 20th century
Shamanism -- Russia (Federation) -- Buri︠a︡tii︠a︡ -- History -- 20th century
Buriats -- Religion -- History -- 20th century
Buriats -- Economic conditions -- 20th century
Neoliberalism -- Mongolia -- Religious aspects
Communism and religion -- Mongolia -- History
Communism and religion -- Russia (Federation) -- Buri︠a︡tii︠a︡ -- History
Buriats -- Religion -- 20th century
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Spirituality -- Paganism & Neo-Paganism.
RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
Buriats -- Religion
Communism and religion
Economic history
Neoliberalism -- Religious aspects
Shamanism
Burjaten
Schamanismus
Kollektives Gedächtnis
Frau
Schamanism -- historia.
Kollektivt minne.
Religiöst liv.
Ekonomiska förhållanden.
Begravning.
Nyliberalism -- influenser.
Religion -- politiska aspekter.
Kommunism -- religiösa aspekter.
SUBJECT Bai︠a︡n-Uul Sum (Dornod Aĭmag, Mongolia) -- Religious life and customs
Bai︠a︡n-Uul Sum (Dornod Aĭmag, Mongolia) -- Economic conditions -- 20th century
Subject Mongolia
Mongolia -- Bai︠a︡n-Uul Sum (Dornod Aĭmag)
Russia (Federation) -- Buri︠a︡tii︠a︡
Mongolei
Russland
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780226013091
022601309X
1299850804
9781299850804