The Anti-Social Contract: Injurious Talk and Dangerous Exchanges in Northern Mongolia

Højer, Lars

 
9781785332463: The Anti-Social Contract: Injurious Talk and Dangerous Exchanges in Northern Mongolia
ISBN 10 : 1785332465 ISBN 13 : 9781785332463
Editeur : Berghahn Books, 2019

Synopsis

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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À propos de l'auteur

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.

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Éditeur
Berghahn Books
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1785332465
ISBN 13 
9781785332463
Reliure
Belle reliure
Nombre de pages
224
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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