The constitution and contestation of Darhad Shamans' power in contemporary Mongolia
Record details
- ISBN: 9781283852227
- ISBN: 1283852225
- ISBN: 1906876118
- ISBN: 9781906876111
- ISBN: 9004212744
- ISBN: 9789004212749
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xiv, 360 pages) : illustrations, maps
remote - Publisher: Folkestone, U.K. : Global Oriental, 2011.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-355) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Machine generated contents note: rethinking of the socialist past -- Darhad as a foil for the twentieth-century Mongolian nation -- "Shamanism" as heterogeneous discourses -- Chapter arrangement -- 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 -- Why a white horse should be devoted to the spirits -- emergence of "shaman-ism" as a belief system -- Armchair anthropologists' theories on shamanism -- Shamanism in Mongol Studies -- new focus on practice, marginality, and the state -- production of explanations during my fieldwork -- On god as the main spiritual counterpart -- on god's relations to lus savdag and tenger -- absence of the tripartite world concept -- on god as hybrids between "nature" and "culture" -- Yura's healing séances in Mörön -- Rising 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 -- resurgence of traditional healing -- Shamanic diagnoses -- Commentaries on social disorder -- Shamans' practices adapting to historical circumstances -- Trance and the production of the authenticity of the shaman's séance -- Staging the relations between humans and non-humans -- enactment of on god visiting a family -- séance of Umban's daughter Höhrii -- Shamanizing as ritualized communication -- elusive meaning of the chants -- staging of power relations -- Power deriving from the performance of powerlessness -- Failed attempts to shamanize -- inspirational exercises of Othüü -- 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 -- Inheritance as contested field -- Teacher and disciples legitimizing each other -- How shamans are belittled in local arenas -- Traveling south to the capital -- 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 -- Mend and Zönög zairan as heroic outcasts -- Agarin Hairhan as powerless resistance fighter -- Magical competitions between shamans and monks -- Scholarly perceptions of the Buddhist past -- identification of the Darhad with shamans -- Glorification of "socialist" shamans -- "white" shaman Chagdar -- Scholarly doubts about shamans' authenticity -- Questioning of shamans' power in the past. |
Language Note: | English. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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Subject: | Shamanism -- Mongolia Shamans -- Mongolia -- Social conditions RELIGION -- Eastern Shamanism Mongolia |
Genre: | Electronic books. Electronic books. |