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Author: Katherine Swancutt
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Imprint: Berghahn Books
Volume: 11
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.549kg
ISBN: 9780857454829
ISBN 10: 085745482
Pages: 284
Publication Date: 01 June 2012
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Alongside the captivatingly rich and detailed ethnographic portrayal, the refreshing scholarly analysis authoritatively examines many of the epistemological, ontological and ethical questions that the millennia-old and vital shamanic divination practices put to the human sciences and their modernist mode of inquiry and world view. * Rene Devisch, Catholic University of Leuven - an important study of Mongolian magical innovations to change fortunes. Focusing on the temporal dimensions of magic, distinguishing the delayed effect from the immediate effect, Swancutt challenges numerous conventional anthropological ideas of magic. * Uradyn E. Bulag, University of Cambridge [A] well mapped-out ethnographic background and a welcomed contextualisation of religious practices and local cosmologies, the author brilliantly brings alive the micropolitics of religious activity at the household level. * Stephane Gros, Center for Himalayan Studies, CNRS
[The author]has not only given us a remarkable record of a moment in the cultural history of one Mongolian society but some invaluable tools to rethink conventional concepts about religion, magic, culture, and change. * Anthropology Review Database Alongside the captivatingly rich and detailed ethnographic portrayal, the refreshing scholarly analysis authoritatively examines many of the epistemological, ontological and ethical questions that the millennia-old and vital shamanic divination practices put to the human sciences and their modernist mode of inquiry and world view. * Rene Devisch, Catholic University of Leuven ...an important study of Mongolian magical innovations to change fortunes. Focusing on the temporal dimensions of magic, distinguishing the delayed effect from the immediate effect, Swancutt challenges numerous conventional anthropological ideas of magic. * Uradyn E. Bulag, University of Cambridge [A] well mapped-out ethnographic background and a welcomed contextualisation of religious practices and local cosmologies, the author brilliantly brings alive the micropolitics of religious activity at the household level. * Stephane Gros, Center for Himalayan Studies, CNRS
Author Information
Katherine Swancutt is a Research Fellow in Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford. She has carried out fieldwork on shamanic religion across Inner Asia, working among Buryats in northeast Mongolia and China since 1999, and among the Nuosu of Southwest China since 2007.
