My Mongolian world : : from Onon Bridge to Cambridge / / by Urgunge Onon.
The distinguished Mongolian scholar Urgunge Onon's reminiscences offer a rare insight into the culture and lifestyle of a Daur Mongol in the first half of the twentieth century. Covering the years from his youth to middle age, the author offers a wide spectrum of experiences from a disappearing...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Folkestone, Kent, England : : Global Oriental,, [2006] ©2006 |
| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (163 pages) |
| Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Table of Contents:
- Maps
- Preface
- 1 My Family
- 2 The Chicken Thieves
- 3 Shamanism
- 4 Seasons
- 5 New Year Celebrations
- 6 One-Ear the Wrestler
- 7 Cloudy Blue
- 8 Sports
- 9 The Boy Shaman
- 10 Fishing on the Naun
- 11 Midwives and Bonesetters
- 12 Wolf Hunting
- 13 Falconry
- 14 The Scarred Khan
- 15 The Blue Wolf
- 16 The White Stick
- 17 Foreigners
- 18 Cause and Effect
- 19 A Hunting Trip
- 20 Stories of the Black Old Man
- 21 Stories of the Mountain Cat
- 22 The End of the Hunting Trip
- 23 Kidnapped and Held to Ransom
- 24 The Start of a Long Journey
- 25 Prince Demchügdongrob
- 26 The Prince and the Japanese
- 27 Japan
- 28 Working for the Prince
- 29 The End of a Dream
- 30 Professor
- 31 Ordeal by Slander
- 32 England
- The Mongol Yurts.