Description:
An ethnography of recent societal transformations in Mongolia and their impact on local belief systems.
Brief description: Morten Axel Pedersen is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen.
Review Quotes:
It is tricky to define anything using a negative, especially in a book title. Yet Morten Pedersen has succeeded in making his theme of perpetual transitional instability in Mongolia one that centers on the concept of not quite shamans. He argues that those Mongolian shamans of the Darhad region conventionally trained to control dark spirit worlds have all but disappeared, given the repressions and pressures of communists, and before them, Buddhists.... Pedersen's work is a fine contribution to the anthropological literature on Mongolia....
--Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer "Anthropology and Humanism"