Spiritually Enmeshed, Socially Enmeshed: Shamanism and Belonging in Ulaanbaatar
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Spiritually Enmeshed, Socially Enmeshed: Shamanism and Belonging in Ulaanbaatar. / Abrahms-Kavunenko, Saskia Adelle.
In: Social Analysis: The International Journal of Anthropology, Vol. 60, No. 3, 2016, p. 1-16.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review
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T1 - Spiritually Enmeshed, Socially Enmeshed: Shamanism and Belonging in Ulaanbaatar
AU - Abrahms-Kavunenko, Saskia Adelle
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - This article examines how shamanic practices can, through the generation of a spiritualized narrative past, relocate individual subjectivities in an extensive web of relationships that include and extend beyond living relatives. The analysis describes the transition from collective to individual responsibility and concurrent feelings of dislocation that occurred in Mongolia at the end of the socialist period. Referring to the biography of a young Mongolian woman, the article looks at how the vertical ontologies present in Mongolian shamanic practice have relocated Enkhjargal in extended kinship connections, building cosmologically enmeshed relationships that reach back into the pre-socialist past. In the increasingly fluid and unpredictable urban environment of Ulaanbaatar, it explores a living instance of re-engagement and attendant growth in both obligation and capacity.
AB - This article examines how shamanic practices can, through the generation of a spiritualized narrative past, relocate individual subjectivities in an extensive web of relationships that include and extend beyond living relatives. The analysis describes the transition from collective to individual responsibility and concurrent feelings of dislocation that occurred in Mongolia at the end of the socialist period. Referring to the biography of a young Mongolian woman, the article looks at how the vertical ontologies present in Mongolian shamanic practice have relocated Enkhjargal in extended kinship connections, building cosmologically enmeshed relationships that reach back into the pre-socialist past. In the increasingly fluid and unpredictable urban environment of Ulaanbaatar, it explores a living instance of re-engagement and attendant growth in both obligation and capacity.
M3 - Journal article
VL - 60
SP - 1
EP - 16
JO - Social Analysis
JF - Social Analysis
SN - 0155-977X
IS - 3
ER -
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