Spirits and Ghosts. Journeys Through Mongolia.
by CALFEE, JULIA
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- ISBN 10
- 1576871673
- ISBN 13
- 9781576871676
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About This Item
USA: Powerhouse Publishing.. 2003.. Illustrated with arresting black and white photographic plates throughout, 165pp, dustjacket, quarto. A photographic essay with an "introduction by Antonin Kratochvil. Spirits And Ghosts: Journeys Through Mongolia delves into the transitions and changes in Mongolia since 1996, addressing the issues and problems of this country still steeped in the murkiness of the post-Communist era, and awkwardly adapting to a new democratic system. Calfee documented the role of shamanism and ritual in this mysterious land, participating in the winter migration of a female shaman and her family over the mountains, sleeping on ice-covered fields at -40 degrees C, and taking photographs of her private seances, rarely seen by anyone outside of this exclusive nomadic culture. Calfee also spent years documenting the social ills of this little-understood East-Central Asian republic, spending days and nights in different prisons with adolescents, women, alcoholics, murderers, and many innocent people. Whether exploring the work camps that have not changed since Stalin's time, makeshift strip-mining conditions, rampant alcoholism, or the general hopelessness of urban life in the capital, Calfee's unflinching and haunting images leave a strong sense of correspondence between social problems and the dark spirituality of this troubled land." Publisher's description. .
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- Bookseller
- Asia Bookroom (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 91744
- Title
- Spirits and Ghosts. Journeys Through Mongolia.
- Author
- CALFEE, JULIA
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardback
- ISBN 10
- 1576871673
- ISBN 13
- 9781576871676
- Publisher
- Powerhouse Publishing.
- Place of Publication
- USA
- Date Published
- 2003.
- Keywords
- Mongolia, Photography, Politics
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