Anti-Social Contract

Injurious Talk and Dangerous Exchanges in Northern Mongolia

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

Set in a remote district of villagers and nomadic pastoralists in the northernmost part of Mongolia, Hojer 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-07-16
Mått:152 x 229 x 16 mm
Vikt:473 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:216
Förlag:Berghahn Books
ISBN:9781785332463

Utforska kategorier

Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Lars Hojer 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.

Recensioner i media

"This book is a very important and vibrant ethnographic work... By emphasizing the dynamics of distancing, suspicion and avoidance in anti-social relations, the author introduces a new, and much fuller, conceptual purchase onto the anthropological term `other', which has underpinned a great deal of classical and contemporary analysis in the discipline." Katherine Swancutt, King's College London

Innehållsförteckning

List of FiguresPrefaceAcknowledgementsNotes on TransliterationIntroduction:Creating Difference From WithinChapter 1. Centralisation and Dispersal: Chandman'-OEndoer District in the Market EraChapter 2. Dangerous Communications: Injurious Talk and the Perils of Standing OutChapter 3. Safe Communications: Formality and HierarchyChapter 4. Morality and Danger: Religious Practices and Buddhist DirectionsChapter 5. Concealed Agencies: Divination, Loss and Magical ObjectsConclusionReferencesIndex