Mongols from country to city : floating boundaries, pastoralism and city life in the Mongol lands / edited by Ole Bruun and Li Narangoa.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bruun, Ole, 1953-

Narangoa, Li

Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Series:

NIAS studies in Asian topics ; 34.

Studies in Asian topics / Nordic Institute of Asian Studies ; no. 34

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shamanism.

Buddhism.

Social policy.

Rural-urban migration.

History.

Nomads.

Social change.

Mongolia--History--20th century.

Mongolia.

Social change--Mongolia--History--20th century.

Nomads--Mongolia--History--20th century.

Rural-urban migration--Mongolia--History--20th century.

Mongolia--Social policy.

Buddhism--Mongolia.

Shamanism--Mongolia.

Physical Description:

xi, 316 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Copenhagen : NIAS Press, 2006.

Summary:

Mongols from Country to City examines the process of cultural change in Mongol societies since the early twentieth century by considering: the interaction of the basic structural features of pastoral nomadism in Mongolia with larger economies, both communist and capitalist; the effect of deliberate cultural reconstruction (ranging from changes to the education system to purges and outright cultural destruction) on the conduct of the pastoral economy; and the efforts of Mongols themselves to develop aspects of their own cultural identity under conditions of territorial partition, episodes of intense political repression, and (in the Russian and Chinese regions) very substantial immigration by non-Mongol groups.

Contents:

A new moment in Mongol history: the rise of the cosmopolitan city / Ole Bruun and Li Narangoa

The rise of cities in nomadic Mongolia / Alicia Campi

Municipalization and ethnopolitics in inner Mongolia / Uradyn E. Bulag

Where is the center? The spatial distribution of power in post-socialist rural Mongolia / Morton A. Pedersen

Facing gender challenges in post-socialist Mongolia / Ann Fenger Benwell

The rural and urban in pastoral Mongolia / David Sneath

Nomadic herders and the urban attraction / Ole Bruun

Namkhainyambuu and the changes in the herding economy of Mongolia / Mary and Morris Rossabi

A preliminary study of Buddhism in present day Mongolia / Agata Bareja-Starzynska and Hanna Havnevik

From Shamanist healing to scientific medicine: bonesetters in inner Mongolia / Li Narangoa and Li Altanjula

Shamanism in transition: from the shadow to the light / Laetitia Merli

Buddhism in Buryatia: past and present / Tsymzhit Vanchikova

Beyond the Soviet houses of culture: rural responses to urban cultural policies in contemporary Mongolia / Peter K. Marsh.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

8791114411

9788791114410

OCLC:

56655362