Confronting the supernatural
Subtitle: Mongolian traditional ways and means : collected papers
By: Charles R. Bawden.
Publisher: Harrassowitz
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Wiesbaden
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 271
Subjects: Mongols -- Religion; Mongols -- Rites and ceremonies; Mongols -- Social life and customs; Divination -- Mongolia; Divination -- Asia, Central; Supernatural
Notes: Consists of previously published material.

Includes bibliographical references.

Articles in English and German; includes romanized Mongolian and Tibetan, 2 Mongolian mss. in facsimile, and English translations of some texts.
Table of contents: title: Two Mongol texts concerning obo-worship; title: Astrologie und Divination bei den Mongolen : die schriftlichen Quellen; title: The supernatural element in sickness and death according to Mongol tradition. Part I; title: The supernatural element in sickness and death according to Mongol tradition. Part II; title: On the practice of scapulamancy among the Mongols; title: A Tibetan-Mongol bilingual text of popular religion; title: Mongol notes. II, Some "shamanist" hunting rituals from Mongolia; title: Calling the soul : a Mongolian litany; title: A Mongolian ritual for calling the soul; title: Einiges zu den Ethnographika der Chalcha und Burjaten im Museum für Völkerkunde Leipzig; title: A note on a Mongolian burial ritual; title: A note on the dates in the colophon to Bolor erike.