The anti-social contract : injurious talk and dangerous exchanges in northern Mongolia /
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 social...
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.