The Anti-Social Contract: Injurious Talk and Dangerous Exchanges in Northern Mongolia

by Lars Højer

Set in a remote district of villagers and nomadic pastoralists in the northernmost part of Mongolia, this book introduces a local world where social relationships are cast in witchcraft-like idioms of mistrust and suspicion. While the apparent social breakdown that followed the collapse of state socialism in Mongolia often implied a chaotic lack of social cohesion, this ethnography reveals an everyday universe where uncertain relations are as...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1785332465
• ISBN13: 9781785332463
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"