Mongols from Country to City - Floating Boundaries, Pastorialism and City Life in the Mongol Lands (Hardcover)

This volume examines the process of cultural change in Mongol societies since the early 20th 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. In particular, this volume will examine those modernization processes entailed in urbanization, secularization, industrialization, democratization and national identity formation. A central question is to what extent these take a different shape in a pastoral society as compared to an "ordinary" sedentary agricultural society.

General

Imprint:	NIAS Press
Country of origin:	Denmark
Series:	NIAS Studies in Asian Topics Series, No. 34
Release date:	2006
First published:	2006
Editors:	Ole Bruun • Li Narangoa
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	288
ISBN-13:	978-87-911144-1-0
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > General
LSN:	87-911144-1-1
Barcode:	9788791114410

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