Anti-Social Contract

Name: Anti-Social Contract
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Author: Lars Højer
ISBN: 9781807581084

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Injurious Talk and Dangerous Exchanges in Northern Mongolia

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

AvLars Højer

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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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Utgivningsdatum2026-09-15
Mått229 x 151 x 14 mm
Vikt326 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor216
FörlagBerghahn Books
ISBN9781807581084

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Sociologi inom Samhalle och politik
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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

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