Tragic Spirits Shamanism, Memory, and Gender in Contemporary Mongolia

Name: Tragic Spirits Shamanism, Memory, and Gender in Contemporary Mongolia
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ISBN: 9780226086569

ISBN-10: 0226086569

ISBN-13: 9780226086569

Edition: 2013

Authors: Manduhai Buyandelger

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The collapse of socialism at the end of the twentieth century brought devastating changes to Mongolia. Economic shock therapy—an immediate liberalization of trade and privatization of publicly owned assets—quickly led to impoverishment, especially in rural parts of the country, whereTragic Spiritstakes place. Following the travels of the nomadic Buryats, Manduhai Buyandelger tells a story not only of economic devastation but also a remarkable Buryat response to it—the revival of shamanic practices after decades of socialist suppression. Attributing their current misfortunes to returning ancestral spirits who are vengeful over being abandoned under socialism, the Buryats are now at once…

Book details

List price: $38.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/1/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.90" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English