Mustering Fortune: Attraction and Multiplication in the Echoes of the Boom

Abrahms-Kavunenko, Saskia

doi:10.1080/00141844.2018.1511610

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“…In religion, the ramification (I hesitate to say, influence) of two key works of the first decade of this millennium (Robbins (2004) and Mahmood (2005)) continue to hold sway. A number of researchers explore ethical personhood, spiritual practice and affect in Hinduism (Fahy 2017; Abrahms‐Kavunenko 2018), Islam (Hefner 2019; Jamil 2019; De Munck and Manoharan 2019), Pentecostalism (MacDonald 2018) and Buddhism (Knauft 2017; Strange 2019). In race, Balkenhol and Schramm (2019), introducing a special issue of Social Anthropology , call for renewed ethnographic attention to how race is made absent and present in multiple ways.…”

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Exquisite Corpses and backward glances: European social anthropology 2019

Martin

2020

Soc Anthropol

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This article provides an overview of the main European social anthropology journals during 2019. It uses the concept of Exquisite Corpses, a technique devised by the Surrealists, an avant-garde art group of the early 20th century, to suggest a practice of transmitting knowledge across periods of fracture. It argues that this process characterises the way that some aspects of social anthropology's canon continue to be transmitted and remain influential, despite having been superseded by time, fashion and changes in social and academic attitudes. A wide range of scholarship is highlighted. Topics focused on include time, relations, borders, bureaucracy, ethics, and the challenges faced by academics in general and anthropologists in particular. These challenges are driven by the emergence of an authoritarian spirit across a number of fields in Europe and beyond, continuing austerity following on from the economic crisis, and the consolidation of an audit culture that drives the university in an ever more neoliberal direction. Despite the current rigorous climate, European social anthropology continues to be vital and relevant.

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Exquisite Corpses and backward glances: European social anthropology 2019

Martin

2020

Soc Anthropol

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“…However, höröngö is also an agentive term that innately encapsulates a potential for growth. It is resonant of understandings of growth and multiplication of wealth and fortune within Mongolia more generally (see Abrahms-Kavunenko 2018;Empson 2011). 8 This can be seen in the way that höröngö is also the term used in Mongolian for yeast or the start of a process of fermentation: the initial seed that can cause a substance to grow.…”

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Shaping Urban Futures in Mongolia

Plueckhahn¹

2020

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List of Figures vi Preface viii Acknowledgements xii A Note on Orthography xv Introduction: Dynamic Ownership and Urban Futures 1 1. Productive Circulations -Tracing the City through Forms of Housing Finance 27 2. The Making of Public and Private in a Redevelopment Zone 55 3. Atmospheres of Tension in a Landscape of Change 80 4. The Possibilities of Possession -Exploring Ezemshil 5. Seeking Quality Conclusion: Making the City Visible References Index vi List of Figures Introduction: Dynamic Ownership and Urban Futures Cities are fertile sites, not for following an established pathway or master blueprint, but for a plethora of situated experiments that reinvent what urban norms can count as 'global'.

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“…Like Graeber’s (1996) discussion of prosperity ceremonies in Madagascar, the bumba communicates with other-than-human-agents that are called upon to assist in wealth generation, rather than demonstrating to other human actors how one ought to be treated. In this respect, the urban Buddhist dallaga and the bumba ceremony are similar as neither are carried out to communicate with human actors (see Abrahms-Kavunenko, 2018).…”

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“…As a class of ceremony, rather than a strictly routinized practice, it is composed of a variety of choreographies and material objects, many of which do not reference Buddhism or involve Buddhist ritual specialists (Chabros, 1992; Empson, 2011). A common type of this broader class of ceremony is regularly performed within urban Buddhist temples where lay people can come to receive empowered ritual grains to place in their dallaga bag and refresh its potency (see Abrahms-Kavunenko, 2018). The day before I attended a dallaga ceremony at Mongolia’s largest Buddhist temple, Gandantegchenliin Khiid, I bought an empty dallaga bag and placed within it clearly identified contents.…”

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“…Unlike the prosperity ceremony ‘ dallaga avakh ’, which is carried out by many Mongolian households yearly or at specific times within ritual cycles (Abrahms-Kavunenko, 2018; Chabros, 1992), the bumba ceremony is only accessible to Mongolia’s wealthy elites and the middle classes. Bumba s purchased for the household are expensive and the commitment to travel to Amarbayasgalant Khiid for three consecutive years in the summer months, with all of its attendant costs, places the ceremony out of reach for those without sufficient means.…”

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Tenuous blessings: The materiality of doubt in a Mongolian buddhist wealth calling ceremony

Abrahms-Kavunenko

2019

Journal of Material Culture

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The ritual vases or bumba that are involved in a secretive Buddhist ceremony in Mongolia highlight the theoretical potential of centralizing material objects which instantiate doubt in anthropological theory. The uncertainties around the contents of these ritual vases, depending on their origins, demonstrate how doubt reflects broader uncertainties and can be generative of religious practices and imaginaries. Bumbas are thought to instantiate great power if they are treated correctly and contain the right materials. If, however, the material contents are suspected of being inert or repellent, the owner risks being rendered foolish, and the ritual will have no efficacy. Materials instantiating unknown elements and causations can, through their presence, be a source of obfuscation, rather than clarification. This article highlights how the conjunction between uncertainty and material forms can reveal the interplay of certainty and doubt, which, rather than creating internal intelligibility, can constitute open cultural and ritual fields.

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Mustering Fortune: Attraction and Multiplication in the Echoes of the Boom

Cited by 7 publications

References 31 publications

Exquisite Corpses and backward glances: European social anthropology 2019

Exquisite Corpses and backward glances: European social anthropology 2019

Shaping Urban Futures in Mongolia

Tenuous blessings: The materiality of doubt in a Mongolian buddhist wealth calling ceremony

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