Among Herders Of Inner Mongolia

Author : Christel Braae
Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
Page : 1000 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9788771844979

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Among Herders of Inner Mongolia by Christel Braae Pdf

This is a study of a unique collection of Inner Mongolian artifacts at the National Museum of Denmark. They are described, analyzed and presented in a catalogue of more than 800 items, documenting the daily life of pastoral society in and around the tent, in the herding of the animals, in caravan trade and in hunting, crafts, sports and games, and in ritual life. Information about the objects was obtained during two expeditions to Inner Mongolia in the 1930s led by the Danish author Henning Haslund-Christensen, who had many years' experience of travel and expedition life in Mongolia. This is also a detailed account of the expeditions; of the routes, means and measures, as well as the worries and hopes of the participants; of their struggles with scientific aspirations; and of the conditions for collecting against the backdrop of the Chinese civil war and the Japanese occupation. The First and Second Danish Expeditions to Central Asia took place in 1936-1937 and 1938-1939 respectively. These expeditions were the sole foreign parties with access to the area at the time, and therefore their members were among the few observers of Inner Mongolian pastoral society at a time and place for which information was, and still is, scant and fragmented. Hence, the material objects and data obtained are of great scientific importance in the documentation of the life and material culture of Inner Mongolian herders in the 1930s - the main subject of the present book.

Author : Burton Pasternak
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429720116

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Cowboys And Cultivators by Burton Pasternak Pdf

This book is about Han Chinese who dared to cross over the Great Wall of China, to make a life for themselves on the northern frontier. It compares family lives, the economy, and gender relations among Chinese herders and farmers of Inner Mongolia.

Author : Christel Braae
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Herders
ISBN : 8779343953

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Among Herders of Inner Mongolia by Christel Braae Pdf

A few embroidery tools -- Catalogue nos. 494-495 -- Carpentry -- Catalogue nos. 496-514 -- Tools used on caravans -- Catalogue nos. 515-521 -- Chapter 9 Hunting -- The game -- Weapons and techniques -- The fur trade -- Catalogue nos. 522-529 -- Chapter 10 The Three Manly Sports -- Wrestling -- Archery -- Horse-racing -- Archery equipment -- Catalogue nos. 530-542 -- Notes -- Chapter 11 Games and Toys -- Shagai - dice and other gameswith animal knucklebones -- Shagai -- Catalogue nos. 543-551 -- Khorol - the wooden playing cards -- Catalogue nos. 552-555 -- Miscellaneous games -- Catalogue nos. 556-560 -- Shatara - Mongolian chess -- Catalogue nos. 561-579 -- The chessmen -- The moves -- Collector's items -- Toys -- Catalogue nos. 580-593 -- Notes -- Chapter 12 Healing, Medicine and Lama Doctors -- The Tibetan Buddhist medical traditionin Mongolia - an outline -- The lama doctor's medical tools - and their possible interpretatio -- Catalogue nos. 594-617 -- Medical instruments -- Catalogue nos. 618-625 -- Two anatomical charts - and the medical books -- Catalogue nos. 626-630 -- Personal hygiene -- Catalogue nos. 631-637 -- Notes -- Chapter 13 Personal Possessions -- Silver and the silversmith's craft -- Sheath knives and accessories -- sheath knives -- Catalogue nos. 638-674 -- Belt buttons -- Catalogue nos. 675-677 -- Ribbons and tassels -- Catalogue nos. 678-679 -- Buttons -- Catalogue nos. 680-684 -- Smoking and snuffing -- Catalogue nos. 685-706 -- Tobacco pouches -- Catalogue nos. 707-727 -- Snuff bottles -- Catalogue nos. 728-768 -- Miscellaneous bags -- Catalogue nos. 769-780 -- Notes -- Chapter 14 Caravan Accountants - Equipment and Officials' Seals -- Catalogue nos. 781-789 -- Seals -- Catalogue nos. 790-797 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- General Index -- Geographic index -- Names Index

Author : Dee Mack Williams
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Science
ISBN : 0804742782

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Beyond Great Walls by Dee Mack Williams Pdf

This is an ethnographic study of a community of Mongolian herders who have been undergoing dramatic environmental and social transformations since 1980. It provides a rare window of observation into a fascinating and important, though remote and relatively understudied, region of modern China, and documents some of the unintended harmful consequences of decollectivization and economic development. Initially, the book presents a case study of land degradation and shows how competing social and cultural forces at the local, national, and international level actively shape that process. More broadly, it focuses on local experiences of modernization and the ways that marginalized people creatively appropriate alien technologies to serve their own ethnic identity and cultural renewal. The book aims to deepen our understanding of environmental change as a social process by exploring significant tensions between such symbolic dichotomies as Chinese/Mongol, farmer/herder, private/collective, development/conservation, Western/Asian, and scientific/indigenous. It argues that the reconstruction of local landscape cannot be separated from the social context of economic insecurity and political fear, nor from the cultural context of group identity and environmental symbolism. Ideologically informed perceptions of the land prove to be highly relevant in both shaping and contesting international development agendas, national grassland policies, and the daily practices of local production. In presenting the full range of material and symbolic stakes now in play on the Chinese grasslands, the book demonstrates that human-land interactions involve social dimensions on a global scale of widely underestimated complexity. Throughout, the author draws from his extensive fieldwork to enrich his study with poignant (and sometimes humorous) anecdotes and biographical sketches.

Author : David A. Bello
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107068841

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Across Forest, Steppe, and Mountain by David A. Bello Pdf

Using Manchu and Chinese sources, this book explores the environmental history of Qing China's Manchurian, Inner Mongolian, and Yunnan borderlands.

Author : David Sneath
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015049698429

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Changing Inner Mongolia by David Sneath Pdf

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 Mongolian steppe.

Author : Elizabeth Endicott
Publisher : Springer
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137269669

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A History of Land Use in Mongolia by Elizabeth Endicott Pdf

An illustrated history of the pastoral nomadic way of life in Mongolia, this book examines the many challenges that Mongolian herders continue to face in the struggle over natural resources in the post-socialist free market era.

Author : Tjalling H. F. Halbertsma
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047443230

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Early Christian Remains of Inner Mongolia by Tjalling H. F. Halbertsma Pdf

Drawing on recent discoveries, this study reconstructs the material culture of the Christian Öngüt in Inner Mongolia. As much of this material no longer survives in the field, it provides an insight into the rise and disappearance of a Christian culture in Asia.

Author : Tom Cliff,Tessa Morris-Suzuki,Shuge Wei
Publisher : Springer
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811063374

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The Living Politics of Self-Help Movements in East Asia by Tom Cliff,Tessa Morris-Suzuki,Shuge Wei Pdf

This collection elucidates the complexity of living politics in the 21st century, considering how self-help groups draw on shared regional traditions, and how they adapt their actions to the diverse formal political environments in which they operate. It considers the nexus between ideas and action in a world where the conventional ‘right-left’ divide has a decreasing hold on the political imagination. Examining grassroots self-help actions as responses to everyday life problems, it argues that whilst action may be initiated by encounters with ideas that come into the community from outside, often the flow of cause and effect works in the opposite direction. Focusing on countries both politically dynamic and with long-standing historical and cultural connections - China (including Inner Mongolia), Japan, Taiwan and Korea – this book fills a significant gap in the literature on social movements, demonstrating that survival itself is a political act.

Author : Colin G. Brown
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781788974059

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Common Grasslands in Asia by Colin G. Brown Pdf

This book unravels the complexities of the grassland systems of Mongolia and northern China, identifying the ways in which policies and incentives can be strengthened to improve grassland condition and herder livelihoods. Offering a comparative analysis of policies and incentives, chapters argue for a mix of incentives and associated policy measures to benefit both grassland conditions and herder lifestyles.

Author : Yifei Li,Judith Shapiro
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781509543137

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China Goes Green by Yifei Li,Judith Shapiro Pdf

What does it mean for the future of the planet when one of the world’s most durable authoritarian governance systems pursues “ecological civilization”? Despite its staggering pollution and colossal appetite for resources, China exemplifies a model of state-led environmentalism which concentrates decisive political, economic, and epistemic power under centralized leadership. On the face of it, China seems to embody hope for a radical new approach to environmental governance. In this thought-provoking book, Yifei Li and Judith Shapiro probe the concrete mechanisms of China’s coercive environmentalism to show how ‘going green’ helps the state to further other agendas such as citizen surveillance and geopolitical influence. Through top-down initiatives, regulations, and campaigns to mitigate pollution and environmental degradation, the Chinese authorities also promote control over the behavior of individuals and enterprises, pacification of borderlands, and expansion of Chinese power and influence along the Belt and Road and even into the global commons. Given the limited time that remains to mitigate climate change and protect millions of species from extinction, we need to consider whether a green authoritarianism can show us the way. This book explores both its promises and risks.

Author : Elizabeth Endicott
Publisher : Springer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137269669

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A History of Land Use in Mongolia by Elizabeth Endicott Pdf

An illustrated history of the pastoral nomadic way of life in Mongolia, this book examines the many challenges that Mongolian herders continue to face in the struggle over natural resources in the post-socialist free market era.

Author : A. Allan Degen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031511424

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Lifestyle and Livelihood Changes Among Formerly Nomadic Peoples by A. Allan Degen Pdf

Author : Yuanyuan Xie
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782386339

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Ecological Migrants by Yuanyuan Xie Pdf

Reindeer-herding Ewenki hunters have lived in the forests of China’s Greater Khingan Range for over three hundred years. They have sustained their livelihoods by collecting plants and herbs, hunting animals and herding reindeer. This ethnography details changing Ewenki ways of life brought first by China’s modernization and development policies and more recently by ecological policies that aim to preserve and restore the badly damaged ecologies of western China. Xie reflects on modernization and urbanization in China through this study of ecological migration policies and their effects on relocated Aoluguya Ewenki hunters.

Author : Ole Bruun,Ole Odgaard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136104589

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Mongolia in Transition by Ole Bruun,Ole Odgaard Pdf

Squeezed between powerful neighbours, for decades Mongolia played the role of buffer state. Its full independence in 1990 offered new opportunities for both economic growth and the restoration of Mongolian identity. But with a huge land area, poor infrastructure and a small population, the new republic is highly vulnerable and also dependent on international support. This book provides easily accessible information for developers, planners, consultants, scholars, students and others with an interest in contemporary Mongolia. Prefaced by a general overview of the land and society, its chapters, all written by international experts, cover a wide range of topics, including foreign policy, domestic politics, local government structure, living standards and poverty, women in society, grassland management, the common herding household, and science and technology policy. A comprehensive bibliography is provided.