Time, Causality and Prophecy in the Mongolian Cultural Region
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How do prophets and prophecies influence decision-making processes, concepts of authority and ideas about causality and time? How can we talk about prophets and prophecy in the Mongolian cultural region when prophetic forms and people seem so varied? This book focuses on roles and distributed language of prophecy in relation to these questions.

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How do prophets and prophecies influence decision-making processes, concepts of authority and ideas about causality and time? How can we talk about prophets and prophecy in the Mongolian cultural region when prophetic forms and people seem so varied? This book focuses on roles and distributed language of prophecy in relation to these questions.
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Autorenporträt
Rebecca Empson is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge. In 2003 she completed her PhD, which was based on fieldwork among Buryats from the northern Mongolian-Russian border. Her thesis focused on the mobility of kin relations from the perspective of children and daughters-in-law. She is currently preparing a monograph based on this work, with particular reference to memory and reincarnation.