Research Catalog

Title

Harnessing fortune : personhood, memory, and place in Mongolia / by Rebecca M. Empson.

Author

Empson, Rebecca

Publication

Oxford : British Academy/Oxford University Press, 2011.

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British Academy

Description

xiv, 408 p. : ill., map.; 24 cm.

Summary

• Based on long-term fieldwork with herding families along the Mongolian-Russian border, this book examines how people tend to past memories in their homes while navigating new ways of accumulating wealth and fortune in the face of political and economic uncertainties.
• It is at this intersection, where the politics of tending to the past and the morality of new means of accumulating wealth come together to shape intimate social relations that the book reveals an innovative area for the study of kinship in anthropology.
• Combining personal experience with ethnographic insight, the volume will be essential reading for social anthropologists and those with a general interest in East Asia and post-socialist countries. --Book Jacket.

Series Statement

A British Academy postdoctoral fellowship monograph

Uniform Title

British Academy postdoctoral fellowship monograph

Alternative Title

Personhood, memory, and place in Mongolia

Subject

• Since 1992
• Nomads > Mongolia > Social conditions
• Nomads > Mongolia > Social life and customs
• Collective memory > Mongolia
• Mongolia > Civilization > 21st century
• Mongolia > Politics and government > 1992-
• Mongolia > Economic conditions > 21st century

Note

• Formerly CIP.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part 1. Sites that gather -- 1. The Mountain and the Runaway Daughter -- 2. Vessels of Harnessed Fortune -- 3. Assemblage at the Household Chest -- Part 2. Separation as growth -- 4. Boundaries and their Transgression -- 5. The Mirror's Reflections and Refractions -- 6. Housing Others in Rebirths -- Part 3. Absent presences -- 7. Managing the Landscape's Resources -- 8. The Ambiguous Power of Fire and Sites of Accumulation -- 9. The Generative Potential of Movement -- A. Photographic Montages, Individual Portraits, and Private Albums -- B. Shamanic Genealogies -- C. Biographies -- D. Glossary of Terms and Names.

ISBN

• 9780197264737 (hbk.)
• 0197264735 (hbk.)

OCLC

• 723064460
• SCSB-12586651

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library