Mongolia remade : post-socialist national culture, political economy, and Cosmopolitics / David Sneath.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sneath, David, author.

Series:

North-East Asian studies.

North-East Asian studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cosmopolitanism--Mongolia.

Cosmopolitanism.

Mongols--Social life and customs.

Mongols.

Mongolia--Politics and government 1992-.

Mongolia.

Mongolia--Economic conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (226 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2018.

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.

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. Mapping and the headless state : Rethinking national populist concepts in Mongolia

3. The rural and 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 Tibetean 'local deities'

9. Nationalizing civilizational resources : Sacred mountains and cosmopolitical ritual in Mongolia

Mongolian capitalism.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Mar 2021).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-226).

ISBN:

1-003-70000-4

1-04-079660-5

90-485-4213-8

9781003700005

OCLC:

1061309646