Fortune and the cursed: The sliding scale of time in Mongolian Divination

Fortune and the Cursed: The Sliding Scale of Time in Mongolian Divination

Volumn 11, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-263

  Swancutt, Katherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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