Lars Højer

The Anti-Social Contract (eBook, ePUB)

Injurious Talk and Dangerous Exchanges in Northern Mongolia

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Set in a remote district of villagers and nomadic pastoralists in the northernmost part of Mongolia, this book 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 they are externally confronted in postsocialist surroundings of unemployment and diminished social security.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781785332470
• Artikelnr.: 57113090

Autorenporträt

Lars Højer is an associate professor at the Centre for Comparative Culture Studies, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen. He has carried out extensive fieldwork in Mongolia and Inner Asia. His previous anthropological research has mainly focused on social, economic, religious, and political aspects of transition processes in urban and rural post-socialist Mongolia.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgements
Notes on Transliteration
Introduction: Creating Difference from Within
Chapter 1. Centralisation and Dispersal: A District in the Market Era
Chapter 2. Dangerous Communications: Injurious Talk and the Perils of
Standing Out
Chapter 3. Safe Communications: Formality and Hierarchy
Chapter 4. Morality and Danger: Religious Practices and Buddhist Directions
Chapter 5. Concealed Agencies: Divination, Loss and Magical Objects
Conclusion
References
Index