Author

Publication

2019 - Berghahn Books, Incorporated

Language

English

Word Count

54,000 words, Guess

Page Count

216 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • LCCDS798.4 .H65 2019

Description

"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"--

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Anti-Social Contract: Injurious Talk and Dangerous Exchanges in Northern MongoliaBerghahn Books, Incorporated2019-01-01

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