Inner Asia Book Series – serie
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11 produkter
Re-Islamization of Society and the Position of Women in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan
Inbunden, 2008
1605 kr
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As well as being a valuable and insightful study into the history, development and tenets of Islam, with particular reference to life in Uzbekistan, this study, which draws on a wide personal network and extensive field research, is also in part a personal quest in support of women’s position and …
Genealogical Construction of the Kyrgyz Republic
Kinship, State and 'Tribalism'
Inbunden, 2010
1566 kr
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This book explores the conceptions of genealogy, kinship and ‘tribalism’ in the intertwined construction of personhood and national identity in the Kyrgyz Republic. It makes an important contribution to several theoretical and regional debates. First, it engages with broader anthropological …
Japanese-Mongolian Relations, 1873-1945
Faith, Race and Strategy
Av James Boyd
Inbunden, 2010
1762 kr
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This book offers the first in-depth examination of Japanese-Mongolian relations from the late nineteenth century through to the middle of the twentieth century and in the process repositions Mongolia in Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese relations. Beginning in 1873, with the intrepid journey to …
China's 'Tibetan' Frontiers
Sharing the Contested Ground
Av Beth Meriam
Inbunden, 2011
1941 kr
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This pioneering ethnographic analysis provides a far-reaching account of the changing social, political and organizational topography of western China. The seismic changes wrought across this region in recent history are seen through the lens of Trinde, a remote ‘autonomous’ county on the Tibetan …
Culture Contact in Evenki Land
A Cybernetic Anthropology of the Baikal Region
Av Tatiana Safonova, István Sántha
Inbunden, 2013
2114 kr
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Evenki are modern hunter-gatherers who live in Central and Eastern Siberia, Russian Federation. They are known to scholarship for their animistic worldview, and because the word ‘shaman’ has been borrowed from their language. Despite such recognition contemporary Evenki everyday life rarely appears …
'Tibetanness' Under Threat?
Neo-Integrationism, Minority Education and Career Strategies in Qinghai, P.R. China
Av Adrian Zenz
Inbunden, 2013
2193 kr
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In 'Tibetanness' Under Threat?, Adrian Zenz pioneers an analysis of significant recent developments in Qinghai's Tibetan education system. Presently, Tibetan students can receive native language education from primary to tertiary levels, while university minority departments offer Tibetan-medium …
Faces of the Wolf
Managing the Human, Non-human Boundary in Mongolia
Inbunden, 2015
2106 kr
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In his study of the human, non-human relationships in Mongolia, Bernard Charlier explores the role of the wolf in the ways nomadic herders relate to their natural environment and to themselves. The wolf, as the enemy of the herds and a prestigious prey, is at the core of two technical …
Conflicting Memories
Tibetan History under Mao Retold
Inbunden, 2020
2902 kr
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Conflicting Memories is a study of how the Tibetan encounter with the Chinese state during the Maoist era has been recalled and reimagined by Chinese and Tibetan authors and artists since the late 1970s. Written by a team of historians, anthropologists, and scholars of religion, literature and …
Taiji Government and the Rise of the Warrior State
The Formation of the Qing Imperial Constitution
Inbunden, 2021
3385 kr
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Read The Taiji Government and you will discover a bold and original revisionist interpretation of the formation of the Qing imperial constitution. Contrary to conventional wisdom, which portrays the Qing empire as a Chinese bureaucratic state that colonized Inner Asia, this book contends quite the …
Imperial Creation of Ethnicity
Chinese Policies and the Ethnic Turn in Inner Mongolian Politics, 1900-1930
Av Liping Wang
Inbunden, 2022
1707 kr
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How did inter-ethnic solidarity become attenuated in the era of the Chinese imperial transformation (1900-1930)? Based on Inner Mongolian cases, this book examines the transformations effective in the policy domains of land affairs, military organization, and law, which were initiated to strengthen …
Limi, the Land In-Between
The Art of Governing a Buddhist Frontier Community in the Himalaya
Inbunden, 2025
2150 kr
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This book examines the art of governing a Himalayan frontier community through local institutions and customary law in the context of extensive socio-economic and political change. Limi, the Land In-Between discusses the roles of the village assembly and the Buddhist monastery in local governance …
