The Anti-Social Contract: Injurious Talk and Dangerous Exchanges in Northern Mongolia

by Lars 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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1785332465

ISBN13:9781785332463

Release Date:July 2019

Publisher:Berghahn Books

Length:216 Pages

Weight:1.02 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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