Mapping Mongolia : : Situating Mongolia in the World from Geologic Time to the Present /

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

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 inte...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.) :; 51 illus.
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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

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