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Morten Axel Pedersen - Not Quite Shamans: Spirit Worlds and Political Lives in Northern Mongolia - 9780801449109 - V9780801449109
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Not Quite Shamans: Spirit Worlds and Political Lives in Northern Mongolia

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Description for Not Quite Shamans: Spirit Worlds and Political Lives in Northern Mongolia Hardback. Series: Culture and Society After Socialism. Num Pages: 272 pages, 21. BIC Classification: 1FPM; HBTB; JHMC; VXWS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 542.
The forms of contemporary society and politics are often understood to be diametrically opposed to any expression of the supernatural; what happens when those forms are themselves regarded as manifestations of spirits and other occult phenomena? In Not Quite Shamans, Morten Axel Pedersen explores how the Darhad people of Northern Mongolia's remote Shishged Valley have understood and responded to the disruptive transition to postsocialism by engaging with shamanic beliefs and practices associated with the past. For much of the twentieth century, Mongolia's communist rulers attempted to eradicate shamanism and the shamans who once served as ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Series
Culture and Society After Socialism
Condition
New
Weight
542g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801449109
SKU
V9780801449109
Shipping Time
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Ref
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About Morten Axel Pedersen
Morten Axel Pedersen is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen.

Reviews for Not Quite Shamans: Spirit Worlds and Political Lives in Northern Mongolia
This is anthropology at its best: full of both theoretical and ethnographic surprises. In northern Mongolia, where the institutions of encompassing social order, both Buddhist and socialist, have collapsed or fragmented into shards, rowdy drunks are almost shamans, jokes are discerning, and elections resemble seances. Not Quite Shamans is a theoretically sophisticated ethnography of one post-socialist hinterland; it is also ... Read more

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