Buyandelger, Manduhai,

Tragic spirits : shamanism, memory, and gender in contemporary Mongolia / Manduhai Buyandelger. - xvi, 314 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The return of the suppressed -- Mobile histories -- Technologies of forgetting, state socialism, and potential memories -- Genealogies of misfortune -- Thriving and silent stories -- Ironies of gender neutrality -- Persuasion and power -- Incomplete lives.

9780226086552 (cloth : alkaline paper) 9780226086569 (paperback : alkaline paper)

2013014427


Shamanism--History--Mongolia--Bai︠a︡n-Uul Sum--20th century.
Shamanism--History--Russia (Federation)--Buri︠a︡tii︠a︡--20th century.
Buriats--Religion--History--20th century.
Buriats--Economic conditions--20th century.
Neoliberalism--Religious aspects.--Mongolia
Communism and religion--History.--Mongolia
Communism and religion--History.--Russia (Federation)--Buri︠a︡tii︠a︡


Bai︠a︡n-Uul Sum (Mongolia)--Religious life and customs.
Bai︠a︡n-Uul Sum (Mongolia)--Economic conditions--20th century.

GN635.M65 / B89 2013

299/.42