Anti-Social Contract

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.

• List of FiguresPrefaceAcknowledgementsNotes on TransliterationIntroduction: Creating Difference from WithinChapter 1. Centralisation and Dispersal: A 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

“This is a long-awaited book… [that] was already a classic before it even came out, and it is therefore quite logical, although rather belatedly, that it will find its due place within the range of excellent monographs on the anthropology of Inner Asia that have come out in English over the past decade.” • Inner Asia