A Magpie’s Tale (eBook)

Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives on the Kazakh of Western Mongolia

Anna Odland Portisch (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2023
282 Seiten
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-781-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Telling the story of the author's time living with a Kazakh family in a small village in western Mongolia, this book contextualizes the family's personal stories within the broader history of the region. It looks at the position of the Kazakh over time in relation to Tsarist Russian, Soviet, Chinese and Mongolian rule and influence. These are stories of migration across generations, bride kidnappings and marriage, domestic violence and alcoholism, adoption and family, and how people have coped in the face of political and economic crisis, poverty and loss, and, perhaps most enduringly, how love and family persist through all of this.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.1.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Lifeworlds: Knowledges, Politics, Histories
• Reihe/Serie: Lifeworlds: Knowledges, Politics, Histories
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: 1916 revolt • 1930s purges • Adoption • Anthropology (General), Sociology, Refugee and Migration Studies • Bayan-Ölgii Province • bride kidnapping • collectivization • cross-cultural encounters • daughter-in-law • Domestic violence • Early Twentieth Century • Emigration • Ethnicity • forced-migrations • Identity • Kidnapping • macro-economic crisis • marriage kidnapping • Migration • Military Conscription • Mongolia • post-socialism • rise of Manchu Empire • Russian colonization • Social Hierarchies • state-socialism • Western Mongol Confederation • winter slaughter • Xinjiang • young women’s position before marriage
• ISBN-10: 1-80073-781-5 / 1800737815
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80073-781-5 / 9781800737815