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Title Fortune and the cursed [electronic resource] : the sliding scale of time in Mongolian divination / Katherine Swancutt.

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New York : Berghahn Books, 2012.

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Axe ProQuest E-Book	Electronic Book	---	Available

Description	xx, 263 p. : ill., map.
Series	Epistemologies of healing ; v. 11
	Epistemologies of healing ; v. 11.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	A race against time: Mongolian fortune and the anthropology of magic -- Buryat cosmology and the timescales of religious practice -- Fortune, the soul and spiralling returns -- Curses, khel am and the omnipresence of witchcraft -- Divination and the inextensive distance to cursing rivals -- An unconventional timescale: the immediate rise of fortune -- Glossary of vernacular terms.
Reproduction	Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject	Buriats -- Mongolia -- Baiandun Sum -- Religion.
	Buriats -- Mongolia -- Baiandun Sum -- Rites and ceremonies.
	Buriats -- Mongolia -- Baiandun Sum -- Social life and customs.
	Divination -- Mongolia -- Baiandun Sum.
	Divination -- China -- Inner Mongolia.
	Blessing and cursing -- Mongolia -- Baiandun Sum.
	Blessing and cursing -- China -- Inner Mongolia.
	Shamanism -- Mongolia.
	Shamanism -- China -- Inner Mongolia.
	Social conflict -- Mongolia -- Religious aspects.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Author	ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN	9780857454829 (hardback alkaline paper)
	9780857454836 (electronic bk.)