The Anti-Social Contract: Injurious Talk and Dangerous Exchanges in Northern Mongolia
Lars HøjerSet 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.
Год:
2019
Издательство:
Berghahn Books
Язык:
english
Страницы:
216
ISBN 10:
1785332473
ISBN 13:
9781785332470
Файл:
PDF, 3.02 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2019