Chapter 3. Fortune, the Soul and Spiralling Returns

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Tables and Figures viii
4. Acknowledgements xi
5. Cast of Characters xiii
6. Preface xv
7. Chapter 1. A Race Against Time: Mongolian Fortune and the Anthropology of Magic 1
8. Chapter 2. Buryat Cosmology and the Timescales of Religious Practice 49
9. Chapter 3. Fortune, the Soul and Spiralling Returns 100
10. Chapter 4. Curses, Khel Am and the Omnipresence of Witchcraft 127
11. Chapter 5. Divination and the Inextensive Distance to Cursing Rivals 154
12. Chapter 6. An Unconventional Timescale: The Immediate Rise of Fortune 185
13. Glossary of Vernacular Terms 223
14. References 241
15. Index 248