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Author Sneath, David.

Title Mongolia Remade: post-socialist national culture, political economy, and cosmopolitics / David Sneath
Published [Place of publication not identified] AMSTERDAM University PRES, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (226 pages)
Contents 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 OrdersComparing 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, 1938Figure 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
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
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 16, 2018)
Subject Cosmopolitanism -- Mongolia
Mongols -- Social life and customs
Economic history.
Society and culture: general.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
HISTORY -- General.
Mongols -- Social life and customs
Cosmopolitanism
Economic history
Politics and government
SUBJECT Mongolia -- Politics and government -- 1992- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002010493
Mongolia -- Economic conditions
Subject Mongolia
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789048542130
9048542138