This book, based on anthropological research carried out by the author between 2008 and 2016, addresses the spatial features of nomadic pastoralism among the Mo

A look inside one of the world's last truly nomadic cultures--Mongolia's Nomads. For millennia, pastoral herders have lived on the Mongolian steppe, moving with

This book explores and contests both outsiders' projections of Mongolia and the self-objectifying tropes Mongolians routinely deploy to represent their own coun

In this book, David Bello offers a new and radical interpretation of how China's last dynasty, the Qing (1644–1911), relied on the interrelationship between e

This book explores the historical and contemporary processes that have made and remade Mongolia as it is today: the construction of ethnic and national cultures