Autore	Humphrey Caroline
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Cambridge, : OpenBook Publishers, [2012]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (278 pages) : illustrations, maps; digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina	327.51047
Altri autori (Persone)	BilléFranck DelaplaceGrégory HumphreyCaroline
Soggetto topico	East Asia, Far East
Soggetto non controllato	russia asia mongolia anthropology international relations china Buryats Cossacks Ereen Dornod Qing dynasty Soviet Union
ISBN	1-906924-90-2 2-8218-5405-6 1-906924-89-9
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	1. A slightly complicated door: the ethnography and conceptualisation of North Asian borders --2. On ideas of the border in the Russian and Chinese social imaginaries --3. Rethinking borders in Empire and Nation at the foot of the Willow Palisade --4. Concepts of "Russia" and their relation to the border with China --5. Chinese migrants and anti-Chinese sentiments in Russian society --6. The case of the Amur as a cross-border zone of illegality --7. Prostitution and the transformation of the Chinese trading town of Ereen --8. Ritual, memory and the Buriad diaspora notion of home --9. Politicisation of quasi-indigenousness on the Russo-Chinese frontier --10. People of the border: the destiny of the Shenehen Buryats --11. The persistence of the nation-state at the Chinese-Kazakh border --12. Neighbours and their ruins: remembering foreign presences in Mongolia --Appendix 1: Border-crossing infrastructure: the case of the Russian-Mongolian border --Appendix 2: Maps.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910141559803321

Autore	Humphrey, Caroline
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Cambridge : Cambridge University Pres ( (Paris) : Ed. de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 1983
Descrizione fisica	XVIII, 522 p. ; 23 cm
Disciplina	306
Collana	Cambridge studies in social anthropology
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	ita
Record Nr.	UNINA-990006523130403321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York, : Berghahn Books, 2012
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (260 p.)
Disciplina	307.76
Altri autori (Persone)	HumphreyCaroline SkvirskajaVera
Collana	Space and place
Soggetto topico	Sociology, Urban Cosmopolitanism Urbanization - Social aspects Emigration and immigration - Social aspects
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-283-65563-2 0-85745-511-7
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Contents; List of Ilustrations; acknowledgements; Introduction - Caroline Humphrey and Vera Skvirskaja; Chapter 1 - Odessa: Pogroms in a Cosmopolitan City; Chapter 2 - Negotiating Cosmopolitanism: Migration, Religious Education and Shifting Jewish Orientations in Post-Soviet Odessa; Chapter 3 - At the City's Social Margins: Selective Cosmopolitans in Odessa; Chapter 4 - 'A Gate, but Leading Where?' In Search of Actually Existing Cosmopolitanism in Post-Soviet Tbilisi; Chapter 5 - Cosmopolitan Architecture: 'Deviations' from Stalinist Aesthetics and the Making of Twenty-First-Century Warsaw Chapter 6 - Sinking and Shrinking City: Cosmopolitanism, Historical Memory and Social Change in VeniceChapter 7 - Haunted by the Past and the Ambivalences of the Present: Immigration and Thessalonica's Second Path to Cosmopolitanism; Chapter 8 - 'For Badakhshan - the Country without Borders!': Village Cosmopolitans, Urban-Rural Networks and the Post-Cosmopolitan City in Tajikistan1; notes on contributors; INDEX
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910461892503321

Autore	Humphrey Caroline
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , [2013]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (441 p.)
Disciplina	294.365709517
Soggetto topico	Monastic and religious life (Buddhism) - China - Urad Zhongqi Buddhism - China - Urad Zhongqi - History
Soggetto non controllato	mongolia, buddhism, mergen monastery, qing, cultural revolution, religion, spirituality, suppression, politics, history, survival, social change, lama, gegen, tibet, monks, tradition, urad zhongqi, duke galdan, landscape, language, self, multiplicity, invincibility, sengge, afterlife, laity, sulde, dispersion, archives, nonfiction, monasticism
ISBN	0-226-03190-X 0-226-03206-X
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Frontmatter -- Contents -- Transliteration -- Acknowledgments and a Note on the Writing of This Book -- Introduction -- 1. Buddhist Life at Mergen -- 2. Mergen Gegen and the Arts of Language -- 3. Mergen Monastery and Its Landscape -- 4. Duke Galdan, Perspectives on the Self in the Qing Era -- 5. Sülde: The "Spirit of Invincibility," Its Multiplicity and Its Secrets -- 6. The Afterlife of the 8th Mergen Gegen -- 7. Sengge: A Lama's Knowledge and Its Vicissitudes -- 8. The Chorji Lama: Inheriting from the Past in a New World -- 9. Regroupings of Laity -- 10. Tradition and Archivization 341 -- Epilogue: Dispersion and Creation -- Bibliography -- Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910838366203321

Autore	HUMPHREY, Caroline
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Oxford, : Clarendon Press
Descrizione fisica	Testo elettronico (PDF) (IX, 293 p. : ill.)
Disciplina	294.4
Altri autori (Persone)	LAIDLAW, James <1963->
Collana	Oxford studies in social and cultural anthropology
Soggetto topico	Rituali - Giainismo
ISBN	0-19-827788-1
Formato	Risorse elettroniche
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Altri titoli varianti	Archetypal Actions of Ritual
Record Nr.	UNISA-996404649703316