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The constitution and contestation of Darhad Shaman's power in contemporary Mongolia [electronic resource] / by Judith Hangartner

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Hangartner, Judith
Published:
Folkestone, UK : Global Oriental, 2011.
Physical Description:
xiv, 360 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
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Machine generated contents note: A rethinking of the socialist past -- The Darhad as a foil for the twentieth-century Mongolian nation -- "Shamanism" as heterogeneous discourses -- Chapter arrangement -- 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 -- Why a white horse should be devoted to the spirits -- 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 -- On god as the main spiritual counterpart -- The on god's relations to lus savdag and tenger -- The absence of the tripartite world concept -- The 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 -- The 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 -- The enactment of on god visiting a family -- The séance of Umban's daughter Höhrii -- Shamanizing as ritualized communication -- The elusive meaning of the chants -- The staging of power relations -- Power deriving from the performance of powerlessness -- 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 -- Inheritance as contested field -- Teacher and disciples legitimizing each other -- 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 -- 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 -- The identification of the Darhad with shamans -- Glorification of "socialist" shamans -- The "white" shaman Chagdar -- Scholarly doubts about shamans' authenticity -- Questioning of shamans' power in the past.
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1906876118 (hbk.)
9781906876111 (hbk.)
9789004212749 (electronic book)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [335]-355) and index.
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