The anti-social contract : injurious talk and dangerous exchanges in northern Mongolia /

The anti-social contract : injurious talk and dangerous exchanges in northern Mongolia /

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Author / Creator:	Højer, Lars, author.
Imprint:	New York : Berghahn, 2019. ©2019
Description:	xii, 202 pages ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Ethnology -- Montolia -- Chandmanʹ Öndör (Khȯvsgȯl Aĭmag) Interpersonal relations -- Montolia -- Chandmanʹ Öndör (Khȯvsgȯl Aĭmag) Suspicion -- Montolia -- Chandmanʹ Öndör (Khȯvsgȯl Aĭmag) Social contract. Ethnology. Manners and customs. Social conditions. Chandmanʹ Öndör (Khȯvsgȯl Aĭmag, Mongolia) -- Social conditions -- 21st century. Chandmanʹ Öndör (Khȯvsgȯl Aĭmag, Mongolia) -- Social life and customs -- 21st century. Mongolia.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11927046

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ISBN:	9781785332463 1785332465 9781785332470
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"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"--
Other form:	Online version: Højer, Lars. Anti-social contract. New York : Berghahn Books, 2019. 9781785332470

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Summary:	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.
Physical Description:	xii, 202 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9781785332463 1785332465 9781785332470