Changing Inner Mongolia : pastoral Mongolian society and the Chinese state /

Changing Inner Mongolia : pastoral Mongolian society and the Chinese state /

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Author / Creator:	Sneath, David.
Imprint:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000.
Description:	xiv, 304 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Oxford studies in social and cultural anthropology Oxford studies in social and cultural anthropology.
Subject:	Pastoral systems -- China -- Inner Mongolia. Pastoral systems. Social conditions Inner Mongolia (China) -- History. Inner Mongolia (China) -- Social conditions. China -- Inner Mongolia. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4344505

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ISBN:	0198234139 9780198234135
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Since the Chinese Communists took control of Inner Mongolia, very little has been written about the region. This book redresses the balance. It is a study of the effect of decades of social engineering on a Minority Nationality in China. David Sneath charts the recent history of the pastoral Mongolians of Inner Mongolia since they became the subjects of the Chinese Communist state, and examines the society that has emerged since the abolition of the Communes in the 1980s. He explores the history of local economic and political forms to illuminate the transformations and continuities of life in pastoral Mongolian society, and offers an account that includes both the swings of national and regional government policy and the experiences of individuals subject to those changes. By taking a historical perspective his study reveals underlying modes of symbolism, and notions of domestic organization and paternalistic authority, that have remained fundamental to pastoralism in Inner Mongolia. It suggests an indigenous mechanism for economic inequality and dependency in pastoral society, one that has helped to shape the pastoral nomadic sociopolitical order of the past."--Jacket.

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