Time, Causality and Prophecy in the Mongolian Cultural Region
Visions of the Future
Biographical note
Rebecca Empson is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge. In 2003 she completed her PhD, which was based on fieldwork among Buryats from the northern Mongolian-Russian border. Her thesis focused on the mobility of kin relations from the perspective of children and daughters-in-law. She is currently preparing a monograph based on this work, with particular reference to memory and reincarnation.
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Professional and scholarly
Table of contents
List of Illustrations; List of Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Notes on the Text; Glossary; Introduction; 1 Circulating Prophetic Texts; 2 Prophecy and Sequential Orders in Mongolian Political History; 3 The President and the Seer: A Case Study of Prophecy and Scientific Attitudes in Modern Political Life; 4 The Transmission and Source of Prophecy in Contemporary Mongolia; 5 Recalling Past Futures: The Property of Oral Prophecies and Lay-prophets; 6 The repetition of Mongolian Prophetic Time; Index
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