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A Map of Western Tartary Drawn from the Survey of the Jesuits and Mr. Kyrillow's Map of the Russian Empire
Kitchin, Thomas
A fascinating 1747 European mapping of the Gobi Desert and the eastern portion of the Silk Route region by Thomas Kitchin.
subject: Gobi, maps, silk route
Map of Inner Asia (CIAS)
Thrift, Eric
Map of Inner Asia, locating the extent of the area studied by the CIAS at the University of Toronto.
subject: Inner Asia, maps
Introduction: The concept of Inner Asia
Sinor, Denis
If the continents of Europe and Asia are conceptual entities, Eurasia - the combined land mass of the two - is a physiogeographical one.
subject: Inner Asia, cultural ecology, history
State Formation and Periodization in Inner Asian History
Di Cosmo, Nicola
subject: Inner Asia, history
Mongolian ethnicity and linguistic anxiety in China
Uradyn E Bulag
subject: Inner Asia, ethnicity, language revitalization
How should Inner Mongolia be developed?Inner Mongolia: the dialectics of colonization and ethnicity building
Uradyn E Bulag
The Chinese regime, which has granted unified autonomy to the Mongols, has also instituted various mechanisms to undermine the Mongols as a viable community.
subject: Inner Asia
Where is East Asia? Central Asian and Inner Asian Perspectives on Regionalism
Uradyn E Bulag
“Attempting to observe Central and Inner Asia from North America or Europe is like looking through a glass that is badly refracted, or even like trying to view the invisible.
subject: Inner Asia, Regionalism
Frontier encounters: Knowledge and practice at the Russian, Chinese and Mongolian border
Billé, Franck; Delaplace, Grégory; Humphrey, Caroline
(From the publisher) China and Russia are rising economic and political powers that share thousands of miles of border.
Respect and Power without Resistance: Investigations of Interpersonal Relations among the Deed Mongols
Bum-Ochir, Dulam
Doctoral dissertation on Deed Mongols and respect for the State.
subject: Deed Mongols, anthropology of the state
Website of the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit
MIASU
subject: MIASU
Herders of the Mongun Taiga
Humphrey, Caroline; Sheppard, John
Ethnographic film about Tuvan herders and perestroika. The Tuvinians live deep inside the Soviet Union, at the very centre of Asia. Tuva is geographically closer to Beijing than to Moscow.
subject: gender, pastoralism, shamanism, socialism
mongon-taiga-film-transcript
Humphrey, Caroline; Sheppard, John
This is the full transcript for the film “Herders of the Mongun Taiga”.
Disappearing World: a guide for anthropologists
Wason, David
Guidelines for anthropologists participating in the Granada Television series “Disappearing Worlds”
subject: ethnographic film
Tuvinian Lama-shamans: Some stories from Mongun-Taiga
Humphrey, Caroline; Mongush, Marina
English translation of a story told by Bair Surunovich Irgit (b. 1918), included in part in the film “Herders of Mongun Taiga”, concerning lama-shamans.
subject: Buddhism, divination, shamanism, stories
Perestroika and the pastoralists: The example of Mongun-Taiga in Tuva ASSR
Humphrey, Caroline
An anthropology article discussing Caroline Humphrey’s observations from a visit to Tuva, conducted during the course of production for the film “Herders of the Mongun Taiga”.
subject: Tuva, USSR, pastoralism, socialism
Goyo Tarag
Thrift, Eric
SUMMARY: In February 2014, a pair of blurry images taken at the railway station in Ulaanbaatar began to make the rounds of Facebook in Mongolia.
subject: Mongolia, dairy, nationalism, social media
26801
Mongolia
Consent of communities. UNESCO List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding, Nomination file No. 01061, “Coaxing ritual for camels” (Mongolia).
ITH-11-6.COM-CONF.206-8Corr.Add.-EN
UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage
Withdrawal of the file “Coaxing ritual for camel caves”.
30181
Mongolia
ICH Inventory. UNESCO List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding, Nomination file No. 01061, “Coaxing ritual for camels” (Mongolia).
30374-EN
Mongolia
Nomination form. UNESCO List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding, Nomination file No. 01061, “Coaxing ritual for camels” (Mongolia).
Camel coaxing ritual (video)
Boldbaatar, Yu.
Short documentary video accompanying Mongolia’s nomination of the Camel coaxing ritual to the UNESCO List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding, 2015.
subject: Camel coaxing, UNESCO, Rituals, Music
09565-EN
Nomination form. UNESCO List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding, Nomination file No. 00548, “Coaxing ritual for camels” (Mongolia).
ITH-15-10.COM-10 EN
UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage
Decision to inscribe the “camel coaxing ritual” on the UNESCO List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding.