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Set in a remote district of villagers and nomadic pastoralists in
the northernmost part of Mongolia, this book introduces a local
world where social relationships are cast in witchcraft-like idioms
of mistrust and suspicion. While the apparent social breakdown that
followed the collapse of state socialism in Mongolia often implied
a chaotic lack of social cohesion, this ethnography reveals an
everyday universe where uncertain relations are as much internally
cultivated in indigenous Mongolian perceptions of social
relatedness, as they are externally confronted in postsocialist
surroundings of unemployment and diminished social security.
An ethnography of the Mongolian capital city of Ulaanbaatar during
the nation's transition from socialism to a market-based economic
system Urban Hunters is an ethnography of the Mongolian capital
city, Ulaanbaatar, during the nation's transition from socialism to
a market-based economic system. Following the Soviet Union's
collapse in 1991, Mongolia entered a period of economic chaos
characterized by wild inflation, disappearing banks, and closing
farms, factories, and schools. During this time of widespread
poverty, a generation of young adults came of age. In exploring the
social, cultural, and existential ramifications of a transition
that has become permanent and acquired a logic of its own, Lars
Hojer and Morten Axel Pedersen present a new theorization of social
agency in postsocialist as well as postcolonial contexts.
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