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Tragic Spirits: Shamanism, Memory, and Gender in Contemporary Mongolia by Manduhai Buyandelger.
Author(s) -
Plueckhahn Rebekah
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1111/aman.12304
Subject(s) - shamanism , citation , history , library science , computer science , archaeology
Manduhai Buyandelger’s Tragic Spirits engages the anthropological literature ofshamanism by drawing on a series of life histories of Buryat shamans and their clientsthat focuses on issues of power, gender, and memory in post-socialist Mongolia. In theintroduction, the author explains how the arrival of socialism in Mongolia resulted inthe forced forgetting of ancestral lineages crucial for determining the identity of spiritsthat bring misfortune to a family.