Absent Powers: Magic and Loss in Post-socialist Mongolia
Absent Powers: Magic and Loss in Post-socialist Mongolia
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权力缺席：后社会主义蒙古的魔力与损失
DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01574.x
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发表时间：
2009
影响因子：
1.2
通讯作者：
Lars Højer
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作者：
Lars Højer
当蒙古村民和游牧民在20世纪90年代初期抛弃社会主义时，他们充满了一种确定性，即现在有些事情已经发生了变化——后社会主义已经成为一种民族志现实，而不仅仅是一种学术发明。社会主义深刻地改变了革命前蒙古盛行的文化和宗教状况，随着社会主义的消逝，蒙古人面临着这样一个事实：有些东西已经失去了，前社会主义和后社会主义时代之间出现了不可逾越的鸿沟（参见Humphrey 1992）。本文的重点正是这种对差距和损失的看法。然而，我不会将其视为可悲的损失，而是会关注缺乏知识的创造性方面。
When Mongolian villagers and nomadic pastoralists left socialism behind in the early 1990s, they were filled with the certainty that something had now changed - post-socialism had become an ethnographic reality rather than merely an academic invention. Socialism had profoundly altered the cultural and religious conditions prevailing in pre-revolutionary Mongolia, and with the passing of socialism Mongolians confronted the fact that something had been lost and an unbridgeable gap between pre-socialist and post-socialist times had emerged (cf. Humphrey 1992). It is this perception of gap and loss that is the focus of this article. However, rather than seeing it as lamentable loss, I will be concerned with the creative aspects of absent knowledge.