Mongolia Remade

Mongolia Remade

Post-socialist National Culture, Political Economy, and Cosmopolitics

  • Auteur: Sneath, David; Humphrey, Caroline; Billé, Franck
  • Éditeur: Amsterdam University Press
  • Collection: North East Asian Studies
  • ISBN: 9789462989566
  • eISBN Pdf: 9789048542130
  • Lieu de publication:  Amsterdam , Netherlands
  • Année de publication électronique: 2018
  • Mois : Octobre
  • Pages: 254
  • Langue: Anglais
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.
  • 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 in Mongolia
  • 8. Ritual Idioms and Spatial Orders
    • Comparing the Rites for Mongolian and Tibetan ‘Local Deities’
  • 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
    • Figure 3.1 Mongolian Urban and Rural Population, 1990-2002
    • Figure 7.1 Light bulb made to commemorate Lenin’s electrification programme
    • Figure 7.2 Altankhüü reading a dal, Khövsgöl aimag, 2008
    • Figure 7.3 Interpretive plan for dal collected in Inner Mongolia, 1938
    • Figure 7.4 A contemporary plan for dal in a pamphlet, Ulaanbaatar, 2004
    • Figure 8.1 Plan for the obo from Mergen Diyanchi Lama’s text
    • Figure 8.2 Plan for the obo from the 1649-1691 text
    • Figure 8.3 Notional location of different classes of obos based on the 1649-1691 text
    • Figure 9.1 The seven burkhan images are taken to the ovoo and the khar süld
    • Figure 9.2 The President places a khadag on the ovoo

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