Format:
Online-Ressource (374 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9781906876111
Series Statement:
Inner Asia Book Series 5
Content:
This book offers an in-depth insight into post-socialist rural shamans in Mongolia thereby making a rare but important contribution to the ethnography of both Inner Asia and Southern Siberia. It examines the social making of shamans, in particular those of the Shishget depression of the northernmost borders of Mongolia
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Description based upon print version of record
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Contents; List of Illustrations (Maps and Figures); List of Photographs; Acknowledgments; Note on Transcriptions and Translations; Chapter 1: Introduction: Power of the Margins; A rethinking of the socialist past; The Darhad as a foil for the twentieth-century Mongolian nation; "Shamanism" as heterogeneous discourses; Chapter arrangement; Chapter 2: Intruding into People's Lives; The intrusion of shamans' spirits in the guides' life; Rethinking the ethnographic field; Exploring the field of travel encounters; Notions of "rapport" and "conspiracy" in arrival anecdotes
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Why a white horse should be devoted to the spiritsChapter 3: Exploring Inspirational Ontologies; The emergence of "shaman-ism" as a belief system; Armchair anthropologists' theories on shamanism; Shamanism in Mongol Studies; A new focus on practice, marginality, and the state; The production of explanations during my fieldwork; Ongod as the main spiritual counterpart; The ongod's relations to lus savdag and tenger; The absence of the tripartite world concept; The ongod as hybrids between "nature" and "culture"; Chapter 4: Topographies of Affliction in Postsocialism
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Yura's healing séances in MörönRising poverty in a postsocialist economy of risk; Unemployment and informal work; Worsening and bettering of health problems; Postsocialist risk and the re-imagination of socialism; The resurgence of traditional healing; Shamanic diagnoses; Commentaries on social disorder; Shamans' practices adapting to historical circumstances; Chapter 5: Performance of Inspirational Power; Trance and the production of the authenticity of the shaman's séance; Staging the relations between humans and non-humans; The enactment of ongod visiting a family
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The séance of Umban's daughter HöhriiShamanizing as ritualized communication; The elusive meaning of the chants; The staging of power relations; Power deriving from the performance of powerlessness; Chapter 6: Legitimization by Illness and Ancestor Shamans; Failed attempts to shamanize; The inspirational exercises of Othüü; A further unsuccessful séance; Failings despite multiple authorizations; Authentication instead of categorization; How the young man Tulgat started to shamanize; How Batmönh's ancestors hindered her; Shamanic inheritance; Authorization by a scholarly genealogy
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Inheritance as contested fieldTeachers and disciples legitimizing each other; Chapter 7: The shamans' Economy of Reputation; How shamans are belittled in local arenas; Traveling south to the capital; The institutionalization of the urban scene; Associations authorizing shamans; Nationalizing shamanism; Darhad shamanism as a "national" tradition; Criticism of shamans' remuneration; Gendered features; Enhtuya's economy of reputation; Performance of chiefly power; Marginalizing shamans; Chapter 8: Imaginations of Powerful Shamans; Mend and Zönög zairan as heroic outcasts
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Agarin Hairhan as powerless resistance fighter
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
9789004212749
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Hangartner, Judith The constitution and contestation of Darhad Shaman's power in contemporary Mongolia Folkestone : Global Oriental, 2011 1906876118
Additional Edition:
9781906876111
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
Keywords:
Postkommunismus
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Religionsethnologie
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Mythologie
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Besessenheitskult
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Darkhat
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Mongolei
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Ritual
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