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Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Mapping and the Headless State; Rethinking National Populist Concepts of Mongolia; 3. The Rural and the Urban in Pastoral Mongolia; 4. Proprietary Regimes and Sociotechnical Systems; Rights over Land in Mongolia's 'Age of the Market'; 5. Political Mobilization and the Construction of Collective Identity in Mongolia; 6. The Age of the Market and the Regime of Debt; The Role of Credit in the Transformation of Pastoral Mongolia; 7. Reading the Signs by Lenin's Light; Development, Divination and Metonymic Fields inMongolia |
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8. Ritual Idioms and Spatial OrdersComparing the Rites for Mongolian and Tibetan'LocalDeities'; 9. Nationalizing Civilizational Resources; Sacred Mountains and Cosmopolitical Ritual in Mongolia; 10. Mongolian Capitalism; Addendum; Obugan-u egüdku jang üile selte orusiba (Rites and so on for the establishment of a new obo); References; List of Figures; Figure3.1 Mongolian Urban and Rural Population, 1990-2002; Figure7.1 Light bulb made to commemorate Lenin's electrification programme; Figure7.2 Altankhüü reading a dal, Khövsgöl aimag, 2008 |
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Figure7.3 Interpretive plan for dal collected in Inner Mongolia, 1938Figure7.4 A contemporary plan for dal in a pamphlet, Ulaanbaatar, 2004; Figure8.1 Plan for the obo from Mergen Diyanchi Lama's text; Figure8.2 Plan for the obo from the 1649-1691 text; Figure8.3 Notional location of different classes of obos based on the 1649-1691 text; Figure9.1 The seven burkhan images are taken to the ovoo and the khar süld; Figure9.2 The President places a khadag on the ovoo |
| Summary |
This book explores the historical and contemporary processes that have made and remade Mongolia as it is today: the construction of ethnic and national cultures, the transformations of political economy and a 'nomadic' pastoralism, and the revitalization of a religious and cosmological heritage that has led to new forms of post-socialist politics. Widely published as an expert in the field, David Sneath offers a fresh perspective into a region often seen as mysterious to the West. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Mongolia -- Politics and government -- 1992-
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Mongolia. |
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Politics and government. |
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1992- |
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Mongolia -- Economic conditions.
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Economic conditions. |
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Since 1992 |
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Electronic books.
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Print version: 9462989567 9789462989566 (OCoLC)1054002736 |
| ISBN |
9789048542130 (electronic book) |
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9048542138 (electronic book) |
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9462989567 |
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9789462989566 |
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