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.…mehr
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.
Lars Højer is an associate professor at the Centre for Comparative Culture Studies, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen. He has carried out extensive fieldwork in Mongolia and Inner Asia. His previous anthropological research has mainly focused on social, economic, religious, and political aspects of transition processes in urban and rural post-socialist Mongolia.
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List of Figures Preface Acknowledgements Notes on Transliteration Introduction: Creating Difference from Within Chapter 1. Centralisation and Dispersal: A District in the Market Era Chapter 2. Dangerous Communications: Injurious Talk and the Perils of Standing Out Chapter 3. Safe Communications: Formality and Hierarchy Chapter 4. Morality and Danger: Religious Practices and Buddhist Directions Chapter 5. Concealed Agencies: Divination, Loss and Magical Objects Conclusion References Index
List of Figures Preface Acknowledgements Notes on Transliteration Introduction: Creating Difference from Within Chapter 1. Centralisation and Dispersal: A District in the Market Era Chapter 2. Dangerous Communications: Injurious Talk and the Perils of Standing Out Chapter 3. Safe Communications: Formality and Hierarchy Chapter 4. Morality and Danger: Religious Practices and Buddhist Directions Chapter 5. Concealed Agencies: Divination, Loss and Magical Objects Conclusion References Index
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