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Author: Hilary Roe Metternich
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 140
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A collection of twenty-five traditional Mongolian folktales about animals, magic, domestic affairs, and the relationship between man and nature.
Author: Simon Wickhamsmith
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-03-04
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 1000337154
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book re-examines the origins of modern Mongolian nationalism, discussing nation building as sponsored by the socialist Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party and the Soviet Union and emphasizing in particular the role of the arts and the humanities. It considers the politics and society of the early revolutionary period and assesses the ways in which ideas about nationhood were constructed in a response to Soviet socialism. It goes on to analyze the consequences of socialist cultural and social transformations on pastoral, Kazakh, and other identities and outlines the implications of socialist nation building on post-socialist Mongolian national identity. Overall, Socialist and Post-Socialist Mongolia highlights how Mongolia’s population of widely scattered seminomadic pastoralists posed challenges for socialist administrators attempting to create a homogenous mass nation of individual citizens who share a set of cultural beliefs, historical memories, collective symbols, and civic ideas; additionally, the book addresses the changes brought more recently by democratic governance.
Author: Peter K. Marsh
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008-09-25
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 1135874875
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Few other nations have undergone as profound a change in their social, political, and cultural life as Mongolia did in the twentieth century. Beginning the century as a largely rural, nomadic, and tradition-oriented society, the nation was transformed by the end of this century into a largely urban, post-industrial, and cosmopolitan one. This study seeks to understand the effects that Western-inspired modernity has had on the nature of cultural tradition in the country, focusing in particular on development of the morin khuur or "horse-head fiddle," a two-stringed bowed folk lute that features a horse’s head carved into its crown. As well as being one of the most popular instruments in the contemporary national musical culture, it has also become an icon of Mongolian national identity and a symbol of the nation’s ancient cultural heritage. In its modern form, however, the horse-head fiddle reflects the values of a modern, cosmopolitan society that put it profoundly at odds with those of the traditional society. In so doing, it also reflects the cosmopolitan nature of the nation’s contemporary national musical culture.
Author: Zhambyn Dashdondog
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
Published: 2009-04-30
Total Pages: 240
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the descendants of the Huns and the mighty warrior, Chinggis Khan (or, as he is known to Westerners, Genghis Khan), and the land of the steppes and the Gobi Desert, come tales of passion, strife, magic, and laughter. This collection of traditional Mongolian folktales, the only one of its kind currently available in English, features more than 60 fascinating stories, ranging from The Legend of the Magic Bone and Seven Brown Mice to The Dreaming Boy and A Fiery Red Khan. The tales are organized in chapters that cover legends, myths, animal tales, magical tales, stories of life conditions, and humor. In addition, the authors provide an introduction to Mongolia, games, recipes, color photos, and notes on the stories. All levels.
Author: Larry V. Clark
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9783447052405
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Author: Gábor Klaniczay
Publisher: Central European University Press
Published: 2006-10-10
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9637326766
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the second volume of a series of three, containing seventeen essays of altogether forty-three articles based on the topics of the interdisciplinary conference held on "Demons, spirits, and witches" in Budapest. Recognized historians, ethnologists, folklorists coming from four continents present the latest research findings on the relationship, coexistence and conflicts of popular belief systems, Judeo-Christian mythology and demonology in medieval and modern Europe. After a first volume, published in 2005, on "Communicating with the Spirits", the studies in the present volume examine the manifold interchanges between learned and popular culture, and its repercussions on magical belief-system and the changing figure of the witch. Book jacket.
Author: Tatiana A. Pang
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2020-08-10
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13: 3112208897
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Studien zur Sprache, Geschichte und Kultur der Turkvölker was founded in 1980 by the Hungarian Turkologist György Hazai. The series deals with all aspects of Turkic language, culture and history, and has a broad temporal and regional scope. It welcomes manuscripts on Central, Northern, Western and Eastern Asia as well as parts of Europe, and allows for a wide time span from the first mention in the 6th century to modernity and present.
Author: John G. Hangin
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9780700709250
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