Mongolia remade: post-socialist national culture, political economy, and Cosmopolitics

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 her...

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1. Verfasser: Sneath, David 1963- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press 2018
Schriftenreihe:North-East Asian studies
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Zusammenfassung: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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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
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (226 Seiten)
ISBN:9789048542130
DOI:10.1017/9789048542130