Pub Date : 2021-11-18DOI: 10.1163/22105018-12340178
G. Delaplace
{"title":"The Anti-Social Contract: Injurious Talk and Dangerous Exchange in Northern Mongolia, written by Lars Højer","authors":"G. Delaplace","doi":"10.1163/22105018-12340178","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22105018-12340178","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43430,"journal":{"name":"Inner Asia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49508836","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-11-18DOI: 10.1163/22105018-12340180
Christian Sorace
{"title":"Mobility and Displacement: Nomadism, identity and postsocialist narratives in Mongolia, written by Orhon Myadar","authors":"Christian Sorace","doi":"10.1163/22105018-12340180","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22105018-12340180","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43430,"journal":{"name":"Inner Asia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64558972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-11-18DOI: 10.1163/22105018-12340177
Mungunchimeg Batmunkh
Since the political upheavals in Mongolia in 1989, the traditional Tibetan-Mongolian protective deity Dorj-Shugden has been rediscovered. Today the Buddhist monasteries Delgeriin khiid, Amarbayasgalant Monastery and Tögsbayasgalant töv venerate him. This paper analyses the role of this deity with particular emphasis on Gungaachoilinig datsan in Gandandegchilin and the Amarbayasgalant Monastery in Mongolia, based on ethnographic fieldwork and semi-structured interviews with monks from six monasteries and visitors of Amarbayasgalant conducted in 2016, 2019 and 2020. The paper also outlines the current state of research, including recent Mongolian literature. Finally, it presents findings about him sourced from social media. By exploring pro- and anti-Shugden religious practices, this article sheds some light on the Shugden controversy in contemporary Mongolian Buddhism.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-18DOI: 10.1163/22105018-12340179
Mark E Frank
{"title":"To the End of Revolution: The Chinese Communist Party and Tibet, 1949–1959, written by Xiaoyuan Liu","authors":"Mark E Frank","doi":"10.1163/22105018-12340179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22105018-12340179","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43430,"journal":{"name":"Inner Asia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44699149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-11-18DOI: 10.1163/22105018-12340171
M. Enkhtur
This paper examines the case of Ard Ayush [the commoner Ayush], a widely recognised national hero constructed in the socialist movement and an exemplar who survived the post-socialist rejection of socialist heroes and was reconstructed within the post-socialist democratic and nationalist movements. The paper’s title borrows the notion of a ‘national people’ from David Sneath and the notion of the ‘exemplar’ from Caroline Humphrey. Extending Sneath’s discussion of ard [commoner and/or people] and ard tümen [national people], this paper shows how the concept of ard that was constructed through the use of exemplars has become ard tümen. Then, extending Humphrey’s discussion of the moral influence of exemplars, this paper shows how some exemplars constructed during socialism helped the socialist government shape and govern a national people.
{"title":"The Making and Remaking of a National People’s Hero and Exemplar in Mongolia’s Socialist, Nationalist and Democratic Mobilisations","authors":"M. Enkhtur","doi":"10.1163/22105018-12340171","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22105018-12340171","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This paper examines the case of Ard Ayush [the commoner Ayush], a widely recognised national hero constructed in the socialist movement and an exemplar who survived the post-socialist rejection of socialist heroes and was reconstructed within the post-socialist democratic and nationalist movements. The paper’s title borrows the notion of a ‘national people’ from David Sneath and the notion of the ‘exemplar’ from Caroline Humphrey. Extending Sneath’s discussion of ard [commoner and/or people] and ard tümen [national people], this paper shows how the concept of ard that was constructed through the use of exemplars has become ard tümen. Then, extending Humphrey’s discussion of the moral influence of exemplars, this paper shows how some exemplars constructed during socialism helped the socialist government shape and govern a national people.","PeriodicalId":43430,"journal":{"name":"Inner Asia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49560295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-11-18DOI: 10.1163/22105018-12340173
E. Guchinova
This article examines how historical representation of the deportation of Kalmyks to Siberia has changed in compliance with the politics of history in Russia. It traces the shift from silence on this topic under communism to the dramatisation of it in the 1990s when the communists lost their power, and finally to the softening of this event in the last decades when state ideology under Putin’s administration is striving to unite the peoples of Russia around the victory in the World War II, leaving the history of the ‘purged peoples’ on the sidelines of this triumph. This evolution from a tragic to a more positive narrative is reflected in the messages of public spectacles about the deportation. The softened approach to this traumatic event was also linked to generational change: its eldest witnesses today are the people who were born between 1943 and 1956 and who were too young to remember its hardships. The author analyses classic theatre performances (‘Arash’, 1995, and ‘Kalmychka’, 2018) and mass agitational campaigns, such as the Trains of Remembrance which took present-day Kalmyks to Siberia to express gratitude symbolically to Siberians who helped them in the difficult period. These spectacles are not mere historical illustrations of the past, but new revisions of it.
{"title":"The Politics of History in Russia and Theatricalisation of Traumatic Events","authors":"E. Guchinova","doi":"10.1163/22105018-12340173","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22105018-12340173","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This article examines how historical representation of the deportation of Kalmyks to Siberia has changed in compliance with the politics of history in Russia. It traces the shift from silence on this topic under communism to the dramatisation of it in the 1990s when the communists lost their power, and finally to the softening of this event in the last decades when state ideology under Putin’s administration is striving to unite the peoples of Russia around the victory in the World War II, leaving the history of the ‘purged peoples’ on the sidelines of this triumph. This evolution from a tragic to a more positive narrative is reflected in the messages of public spectacles about the deportation. The softened approach to this traumatic event was also linked to generational change: its eldest witnesses today are the people who were born between 1943 and 1956 and who were too young to remember its hardships. The author analyses classic theatre performances (‘Arash’, 1995, and ‘Kalmychka’, 2018) and mass agitational campaigns, such as the Trains of Remembrance which took present-day Kalmyks to Siberia to express gratitude symbolically to Siberians who helped them in the difficult period. These spectacles are not mere historical illustrations of the past, but new revisions of it.","PeriodicalId":43430,"journal":{"name":"Inner Asia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41498356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-05-26DOI: 10.1163/22105018-12340160
Eveline Bingaman, Heidi Fjeld, Nancy E. Levine, J. Samuels
Formations in kinship have received little attention in Tibetan studies, particularly in the period following pivotal publications by Goldstein (1971a; 1971b; 1971c; 1978), Aziz (1978), Levine (1981; 1988), and Diemberger (1993). As additional archives and new field-sites have been made available, studies of Tibet and its borderlands (with borderlands here referring to areas occupied by populations with linguistic, cultural and ethnic affinities with Tibetans) are producing a wealth of data on cultural values and everyday social life, including on kinship and relatedness. The newer studies have addressed and enhanced our understanding of issues raised in the earlier work but have fallen short of bringing these findings to bear on broader and more contemporary concerns within the field of anthropology. Similar observations can be made about historically oriented fields of Tibetan studies, whose
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Pub Date : 2020-11-04DOI: 10.1163/22105018-12340145
T. White, Natasha Fijn
In this special section our focus is on human relations with animals in the domestic sphere (or domus) in Inner Asia. In the existing academic literature, there has been greater attention paid to human–nonhuman relations in North Asia (or Siberia), often between hunter and prey animal. The intention of this special section is to ask what we can learn about relations between humans and domestic animals when we shift the focus to Inner Asia, a region that has long been characterised by multispecies pastoralism. The various contributors to this issue have conducted research across a broad swathe of Inner Asia, from Buryatia in the southeast of Siberia (Oehler), Mongolia (Bumochir et al., Fijn, Hutchins, Swancutt), Inner Mongolia (White), Qinghai (Bumochir) to the southwest of China (Swancutt). Within anthropology, a multitude of terms have emerged for a focus beyond the human, now superseding older literature within ecological or environmental anthropology to become ‘multispecies ethnography’ (Kirksey & Helmreich 2010), ‘anthropology beyond humanity’ (Ingold 2013), or an ‘anthropology of life’ (Kohn 2013). This terminological proliferation has occurred in the context of the broader ‘animal turn’ in the humanities and social sciences and the ‘ontological turn’ within anthropology. These diverse bodies of literature share a concern with thinking beyond the anthropocentrism which has historically dominated the humanities and social sciences, previously confining attributes such as subjectivity and agency to humans alone. This concern has gained a
在这一特别部分中，我们关注的是内亚家庭领域（或domus）中人类与动物的关系。在现有的学术文献中，人们更加关注北亚（或西伯利亚）的人与非人关系，通常是猎人和猎物之间的关系。本特别部分的目的是询问，当我们将重点转移到内亚地区时，我们可以了解到人类和家畜之间的关系，该地区长期以来一直以多物种畜牧业为特征。这一问题的各个贡献者在中亚的大片地区进行了研究，从西伯利亚东南部的布里亚特（Oehler）、蒙古（Bumochir et al.，Fijn，Hutchins，Swancatt）、内蒙古（White）、青海（Bumochill）到中国西南部（Swancart）。在人类学中，出现了许多关注人类之外的术语，现在取代了生态或环境人类学中的旧文献，成为“多物种人种学”（Kirksey和Helmreich，2010年）、“人类之外的人类学”（Ingold，2013年）或“生命人类学”（Kohn，2013）。这种术语的激增发生在人文社会科学中更广泛的“动物转向”和人类学中的“本体论转向”的背景下。这些不同的文学体都关注超越人类中心主义的思考，人类中心主义在历史上一直主导着人文科学和社会科学，以前将主体性和能动性等属性仅限于人类。这种担忧已经引起了
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