Fortune in the Wind
An Impersonal Subjectivity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19005333 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Caroline Humphrey (0009-0008-7005-4924), Hürelbaatar Ujeed |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Analysis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0155-977X • E-ISSN: 1558-5727 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/sa.2012.560211 |
| OpenAlex | W2335554152 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 28 |
For Mongols, fortune is not just acquired or lost accidentally. Rituals are held to create an upsurge of fortune, to beckon, absorb, contain, and act upon it. This article focuses on two kinds of fortune-sülde (potency) and hiimori (vitality)-and the ritualized means to restore these qualities that otherwise become depleted of their own accord. It is argued that these ideas of fortune are ways of linking subjects to cosmological forces 'out there'. The paradox is that, by binding fortune into their bodies in an attempt to garner invincibility, bravery, and energy, people resonate to pulses that glide among, and fly beyond, their other constitutive physical bodily elements. Such occasions when sülde and hiimori are in play call into being a certain kind of person who seems to be rendered, at least for a moment, at one with the void
Aesthetics · Epistemology · Sociology · Subjectivity · The Void · Theology · Vitality · Ancient Near East History · Eurasian Exchange Networks · History · Linguistics and Cultural Studies · Philosophy
Intermezzo. L’empire des circonstances
Actions rituelles, mobilité et attachement au « pays natal » parmi des éleveurs nomades de Mongolie
The middle of the story. Ovoos and the ecological imagination in Mongolian conservation
The Dangers of Excess
The Animalification of Nationalist Sentiments
“Urbanisation of the Steppe”. Sedentarization, Mobility, and Collective Business-Making Among the Torghuts in Post-transitional Mongolia
The Human Being in Social and Cosmic Orders. Categories of Traditional Culture and the Problems of Contemporary Buryat Identity
Alternative History
Partners in ascent
Magic
Downward the Ground is Hard; Upward the Sky is Far
The Ruler, the Wrestler, and the Archer
Herd Agency
Thinking with Horses
Rhythms of nutag
Fast' and 'Slow
Special Section
Immunity beyond Spheres
Plastic Purity and Sacred Dairy
Human‐horse sensory engagement through horse archery
The Return of the Far-Off Past
Mobile pastoralist geographies of care
Creating Bottom-up Development. A Study of Self-Organization and the Building of Fortune- Prosperity by the Torghuts from the Bulgan Sum in Mongolia
Chasser le loup, révéler le passé et orienter le futur parmi des éleveurs nomades de Mongolie
The problem of moral luck, anthropologically speaking
Risk and its others
Mustering Fortune
A Question of Ethics
| Unique citing works | 28 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 24 |