Mongolia Remade

David Sneath is the Director of the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit and Reader at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge. He has over 50 publications including three monographs and three multi-volume edited works.Professor Caroline Humphrey is an anthropologist who has worked across Asia and countries of the former Soviet Union. She is currently based at the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit at Cambridge, which she co-founded, and she is a Director of Research at the Department of Social Anthropology. She has been a Fellow of King's since 1978. Franck Billé is a cultural anthropologist based at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is program director for the Tang Center for Silk Road Studies. He is the author of Sinophobia (Hawaii, 2015), coauthor of On the Edge (Harvard, 2021), editor of Voluminous States (Duke, 2020), and coeditor of Yellow Perils (Hawaii, 2019) and Frontier Encounters (Open Book, 2012). He is currently finalizing his latest book, Somatic States: On Cartography, Geobodies, Bodily Integrity (Duke University Press). More information about his current research is available on his website: www.franckbille.com.

• Chapter 1. Introduction Part I: The Making and Remaking of Mongolia Part II: Masters of the Steppe: Peoples of Mongolia (First published in Fitzhugh, Rossabi & Honeychurch (eds.) 2009. Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire, Washington: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center). Part III: The Ending of the Old Order Part IV: Making Mongolia Modern Chapter 2. Mapping and the Headless State: Rethinking national populist concepts of Mongolia (first published in Sabloff, P. (ed.) 2011. Mapping Mongolia: Situating Mongolia in the World from Geologic Time to the Present, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press). Chapter 3. The Rural and the Urban in Pastoral Mongolia (first published in in Bruun, O. and Narangoa, L., (eds.) 2005. Mongolians from Country to City: Floating Boundaries, Pastoralism and City Life in the Mongol Lands, Copenhagen: NIAS Press). Chapter 4. Proprietary Regimes and Sociotechnical Systems: Rights over Land in Mongolia's 'age of the market' (first published in Verdery, K., and Humphrey C., (eds.) 2004. Property in Question: Value Transformation in the Global Economy, Oxford: Berg). Chapter 5 Political Mobilization and the Construction of Collective Identity in Mongolia (first published in Central Asia Survey 29(3), 2010). Chapter 6 The Age of the Market and the Regime of Debt: The role of credit in the transformation of pastoral Mongolia (first published in Social Anthropology/ Anthropologie Sociale 20(4), 2012). Chapter 7 Reading the Signs by Lenin's Light: Development, divination and metonymic fields in Mongolia (first published in Ethnos 74(1), 2009). Chapter 8 Ritual Idioms and Spatial Orders: Comparing the rites for Mongolian and Tibetan 'local deities' (first published in in Bulag, U., and Diemberger, H., (eds.) 2007. The Mongol-Tibet Interface: Opening new research terrains in Inner Asia, Leiden: Brill). Chapter 9 Nationalizing Civilizational Resources: Sacred mountains and cosmopolitical ritual in Mongolia (first published in Asian Ethnicity 15(4), 2014). Chapter 10 Mongolian Capitalism.

"Indeed, Sneath's unique contribution to the research on Mongolia comes from — although by no means exclusively — his exceptionally fluent and dynamic knowledge of the histories of the Mongols, not just the current and recent socialist, but also the ancient." - Manduhai Buyandelger, The Journal of Asian Studies, 2020