Representing power in modern Inner Asia
Subtitle: conventions, alternatives and oppositions
By: edited by Isabelle Charleux, Grégory Delaplace, Roberte Hamayon, and Scott Pearce
Contributors: Centre d'études mongoles et sibériennes (Paris, France)
Series: Studies on East Asia -- v. 31; Studies on East Asia -- v. 31.
Publisher: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Bellingham, WA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9780914584322
Subjects: Congresses; Politics and government; Rites and ceremonies; Religion and state; Power (Social sciences); History; Symbolism in politics
Notes: "This symposium was held in Paris in March 23-25, 2006. It was organized by the Centre d'études mongoles et sibériennes of the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE) "--P. 1.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contributions chiefly in English; 1 in French.
Table of contents: title: Preface / Peter B. Golden; title: Representing power in modern Inner Asia : conventions, alternatives and opposition : introduction / Isabelle Charleux, Grégory Delaplace, Roberte Hamayon; title: Major state rituals and the reinvention of tradition in contemporary Mongolia part I. Two aspects of the state cult in contemporary Mongolia : the sacrifice to the mountains and the cult of the standards / Sedenjav Dulam; title: Major state rituals and the reinvention of tradition in contemporary Mongolia part II. Quelques pistes de réflexions à partir du texte de Sedenjav Dulam / Isabelle Bianquis; title: 'Tengrism' in Kyrgyzstan : in search of new religious and political legitimacy / Aurélie Biard and Marlène Laruelle; title: Marshal Choibalsan's 'second funeral' / Grégory Delaplace; title: President Sambuu's 1972 funeral : a living testimony / Françoise Aubin; title: Enclosing for growth : including or excluding people from land in North-east Mongolia / Rebecca Empson; title: The joint making of illusion and disillusion : Chinggis Khan on a Buryat calendar / Roberte N. Hamayon; title: The ruler and the lama : political and religious relations in the Urad West Duke Banner in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Caroline Humphrey; title: A power play among the Kyrgyz : state versus descent / Svetlana Jacquesson; title: The virtual temple : the power of relics in Darhad Mongolian Buddhism / Morten Axel Pedersen; title: How nomadic societies perceive temselves in Mongolia and Mali : a comparative perspective / Linda Gardelle; title: Experiencing twentieth century architecture and urbanity in Mongolia : an analysis of Ulaanbaatar's buildings through state-owned images and personal narratives / Ai Maekawa; title: State custom and governance, tör yos and tör within Mongol clans / Rodica Popp; title: Reconstructing the memory of an Inner Mongolian national hero : the case of Injannashi and his family monastery / Ü. Hürelbaatar and David Sneath.