Harnessing Fortune - Personhood, Memory and Place in Northeast Mongolia

Zusatztext Harnessing Fortune wears its learning lightly...Empson's writing is suffused with a deeply personal connection to a people who, as she asserts, are not living in a way that they consider to be transitional. Klappentext This is the first detailed ethnography of rural Mongolian life since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Based on fieldwork with migrant herding families who traverse the Northern Mongolian-Russian border, the volume explores how intimate social relationships and identities are drawn upon to engage with new political and economic uncertainties. Zusammenfassung This is the first detailed ethnography of rural Mongolian life since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Based on fieldwork with migrant herding families who traverse the Northern Mongolian-Russian border, the volume explores how intimate social relationships and identities are drawn upon to engage with new political and economic uncertainties.

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• Authors: Rebecca M. Empson, Rebecca M. (Lecturer in Social Anthropology Empson, Empson Rebecca M.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2010
• EAN: 9780197264737
• ISBN: 978-0-19-726473-7
• No. of pages: 388
• Series: British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs; British Academy Monographs; British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Mongolia, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology