| #1348644 in Books | 2013-11-01 | 2013-11-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x1.00 x6.00l,1.03 | File type: PDF | 336 pages||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Absolutely worth reading.|By Joshua A. Tenpenny|"Tragic Spirits" is probably the most sensitive and respectful take on shamanic-based spirit-work that I've read by a scholarly type who doesn't actually believe in the spirits that her subjects base their lives around. That sounds like cold praise, but it's not. After reading two hundred years of accounts of shamanism by outsider||A WINNER OF Francis Hsu Book Prize from the Society for East Asian Anthropology. "Tragic Spirits gives us a mesmerizing depiction of the revival of shamanism among the Buryats of Mongolia under tragic circumstances. Facing life-threatening ec
The collapse of socialism at the end of the twentieth century brought devastating changes to Mongolia. Economic shock therapy—an immediate liberalization of trade and privatization of publicly owned assets—quickly led to impoverishment, especially in rural parts of the country, where Tragic Spirits takes place. Following the travels of the nomadic Buryats, Manduhai Buyandelger tells a story not only of economic devastation but also a remarkable Bu...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Tragic Spirits: Shamanism, Memory, and Gender in Contemporary Mongolia | Manduhai Buyandelger. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
