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:
Not Quite Shamans is a beautifully written, rich, and detailed ethnographic account of a remote corner of postsocialist Mongolia. Empathetic but never apologetic, Pedersen presents a balanced account of what was certainly a very arduous, evenlife-threatening, fieldwork research.... [N]ot Quite Shamans will certainly become a seminal text, not only for Mongolian and Inner Asian specialists but indeed as a detailed and perceptive analysis of postsocialism and shamanism.
--Franck Billé "Current Anthropology"