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      Changing Inner Mongolia: Pastoral Mongolian Society and the Chinese State

      David Sneath

      This study of the effect of social engineering in Inner Mongolia since the Chinese communists took control illuminates the transformations and continuities of life in pastoral Mongolian society and suggests…

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      The Headless State: Aristocratic Orders, Kinship Society, and Misrepresentations of Nomadic Inner Asia

      David Sneath

      Dispels the myths surrounding the history of steppe societies and proposes a fresh understanding of the nature and formation of the state. Drawing on his extensive anthropological fieldwork in the…

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      The History of Mongolia (3 Vols.)

      This is the first work in English to bring together significant articles in Mongolian studies in one place, which will be widely welcomed by scholars and researchers in this field.A…

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      The End of Nomadism?: Society, State and the Environment in Inner Asia

      Caroline Humphrey,David Sneath

      A study of the steppe region of Inner Asia, historically dominated by Mongol culture, Buddhist-Shamanist religion, and an economy based on mobile pastoralism. It discusses the possible demise of the…

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      The End of Nomadism?: Society, State and the Environment in Inner Asia

      Caroline Humphrey,David Sneath

      A study of the steppe region of Inner Asia, historically dominated by Mongol culture, Buddhist-Shamanist religion, and an economy based on mobile pastoralism. It discusses the possible demise of the…

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      Cosmopolitical Ecologies Across Asia: Places and Practices of Power in Changing Environments

      Hildegard Diemberger,David Sneath

      This book offers a unique insight into the non-human and spiritual dimensions of environmental management in a changing world, presenting a comparative, place-based exploration of landscapes across Asia and the…

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      Cosmopolitical Ecologies Across Asia

      This book offers a unique insight into the non-human and spiritual dimensions of environmental management in a changing world, presenting a comparative, place-based exploration of landscapes across Asia and the…

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      Mongolia Remade: Post-socialist National Culture, Political Economy, and Cosmopolitics

      David Sneath

      This book explores the historical and contemporary processes that have made and remade Mongolia as it is today.

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      The End of Nomadism?: Society, State, and the Environment in Inner Asia

      Caroline Humphrey,David Andrews Sneath

      Explores the complex life and significant economic role of modern mobile pastoralists.

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