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The Lama Question : Violence, Sovereignty, and Exception in Early Socialist Mongolia / Christopher Kaplonski.
LIBRA HN730.8.Z9 V55 2014
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kaplonski, C. (Christopher), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political violence--Mongolia--History--20th century.
- Political violence.
- Buddhism and state.
- History.
- Mongolia--Politics and government--20th century.
- Mongolia.
- Politics and government.
- Buddhism and state--Mongolia--History--20th century.
- Political science.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 259 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2014.
- Contents:
- Technologies of exception, governmentality, and the contingent state
- The geopolitics of exception
- Women, literacy, and other dangerous things
- Counting (on) the living gods
- Samdan, the special commission, and the rule of law
- Rebellions, war, and aftermaths
- Surveillance and control: the religious administration and the government representatives
- A tale of two lamas: Gonchigjantsan and Agvaanjamyan
- The Yonzon Hamba and the Center Counterrevolutionary Group
- Closed and destroyed monasteries: the aftermath.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780824838560
- 0824838564
- OCLC:
- 872382719
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