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injurious talk and dangerous exchanges in northern Mongolia
xii, 202 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Set in a remote district of villagers and nomadic pastoralists in the northernmost part of Mongolia, Højer introduces a local world, where social relationships are cast in witchcraft-like idioms of mistrust and suspicion. While the apparent social breakdown that followed the collapse of state socialism in Mongolia often implied a chaotic lack of social cohesion, this ethnography reveals an everyday universe where uncertain relations are as much internally cultivated in indigenous Mongolian perceptions of social relatedness, as it is externally confronted in postsocialist surroundings of unemployment and diminished social security.
Introduction: Creating difference from within -- Centralisation and dispersal : Chandman'-Ondor district in the market era -- Dangerous communications : injurious talk and the perils of standing out -- Safe communications : formality and hierarchy -- Morality and danger : religious practices and Buddhist directions -- Concealed agencies : divination, loss and magical objects.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [177]-189) and index.
Chandmanʹ Öndör (Khȯvsgȯl Aĭmag, Mongolia)