Mapping Mongolia : : Situating Mongolia in the World from Geologic Time to the Present / / ed. by Paula L.W. Sabloff.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection
• MitwirkendeR: Amartuvshin, Chunag,; Ariuntsetseg, L.,; Atwood, Christopher P.,; Barfield, Thomas,; Bayarsaikhan, Jamsranjav,; Enkhsaikhan, Jargalsaikhany,; Fitzhugh, William W.,; Goldin, Paul R.,; Goulden, Clyde E.,; Honeychurch, William,; Hurst, G. Cameron,; Nandintsetseg, B.,; Pipes, Lenore,; Sabloff, Paula L.W.,; Schurr, Theodore G.,; Sneath, David,
• HerausgeberIn: Sabloff, Paula L.W.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 51 illus.

With its small population and low GDP, Mongolia is frequently deemed "unique" or tacked onto various area studies programs: Inner Asia, Central Asia, Northeast Asia, or Eurasia. This volume is a response to the concern that countries such as Mongolia are marginalized when academia and international diplomacy reconfigure area studies borders in the postsocialist era.Would marginalized countries such as Mongolia benefit from a reconfiguration of area studies programs or even from another way of thinking about grouping nations? This book uses Mongolia as a case study to critique the area studies methodology and test the efficacy of another grouping methodology, the "-scapes" method proposed by Arjun Appadurai. Could the application of this approach for tracing individuals' social networks by theme (finance, ethnicity, ideology, media, and technology) be applied to nation-states or peoples? Could it then prevent Mongolia from slipping through the cracks of academia and international diplomacy? Experts from ecology, genetics, archaeology, history, anthropology, and international diplomacy contemplate these issues in their chapters on Mongolia through the ages. Their work includes over 30 maps to help situate Mongolia in its geologic, geographic, economic, and cultural matrix. By comparing maps of different time periods and intellectual orientations, readers can consider for themselves the place of Mongolia in the world community and the relative benefits of these and other grouping methodologies.Content of this book's DVD-ROM may be found online at this location: http://core.tdar.org/project/376589.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Penn Museum International Research Conferences. Foreword -- Preface and Acknowledgments: "-Scaping" Mongolia -- Theorizing Mongolia's Connections -- 1. General Comments on Mapping Mongolia and Mongol Studies -- 2. "-Scaping" Mongolia -- 3. Mapping and the Headless State: Rethinking National Populist Concepts of Mongolia -- 4. Is There Such a Thing as Central/Inner (Eur)Asia and Is Mongolia a Part of It? -- Extending Beyond Current Borders -- 5. The Geology, Climate, and Ecology of Mongolia -- 6. Nomadic Pastoralism in Mongolia and Beyond -- 7. The Prehistory of Mongolian Populations as Revealed by Studies of Osteological, Dental, and Genetic Variation -- 8. Mapping Ritual Landscapes in Bronze Age Mongolia and Beyond: Interpreting the Ideoscape of the Deer Stone-Khirigsuur Complex -- Connecting to Other Polities -- 9. Timescapes from the Past: An Archaeogeography of Mongolia -- 10. Steppe Nomads as a Philosophical Problem in Classical China -- 11. Mapping Foreign Policy Interests: Mongolia's Case -- Index