Changing Inner Mongolia - Pastoral Mongolian Society and the Chinese State

Zusatztext This book is an important contribution to the study of Inner Mongolia and Sneath offers an illuminating description of pastoralists who have preserved certain aspects of their traditional culture despite major changes brought about by the Chinese state. Sneath's insights on the recent history of Inner Mongolia provide a useful study for Mongolian specialists as well as anyone interested in cultural change. Klappentext Since the Chinese Communists took control of Inner Mongolia, very little has been written about that region, the vast steppeland of northern China. This book charts the recent history of the pastoral Mongolian minority there. It examines the effects of five decades of social engineering by the Chinese state, and explores the role of economic forms, ritual, symbolism, and ideology in the transformations and continuities of life on the inner Mongoliansteppe. Zusammenfassung This study of the effect of social engineering in Inner Mongolia since the Chinese communists took control illuminates the transformations and continuities of life in pastoral Mongolian society and suggests an indigenous mechanism that has helped to shape the pastoral nomadic sociopolitical order.

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• Authors: David Sneath, David (University Lecturer in Anthropology Sneath, David (University Lecturer in Anthropology and Development Sneath, Sneath David
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2000
• EAN: 9780198234135
• ISBN: 978-0-19-823413-5
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology; Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology; Oxford Studies in Social and C
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Tierhaltung, Viehhaltung, Archaeology / Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / Animal Husbandry, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural, Mongolia, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Rural communities, Indigenous Peoples, Relating to indigenous peoples, Social and cultural anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies, Indigenous peoples / Indigeneity