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Zeynep K. Korkman, "Gendered Fortunes: Divination, Precarity, and Affect in Postsecular Turkey" (Duke UP, 2023)

New Books in Anthropology

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Divination and Affective Labor: Coping with Neoliberal Precarity

This chapter explores how neoliberalization leads to increased anxieties and precarity among middle-class workers, who turn to divination practices to cope with these pressures. It discusses the concept of affective labor in divination and the commercialization of divination in Turkey, as well as the significance of feeling labor for gender and sexual minorities.

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