Description
| Product ID: | 9781800737969 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Lifeworlds: Knowledges, Politics, Histories |
| Title: | A Magpie’s Tale |
| Subtitle: | Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives on the Kazakh of Western Mongolia |
| Authors: | Author: Anna Odland Portisch |
| Page Count: | 282 |
| Subjects: | Sociology: family and relationships, Sociology: family & relationships, Social and cultural anthropology, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Mongolia |
| Description: | Telling the story of the author's time living with a Kazakh family in a small village in western Mongolia, this book contextualizes the family’s personal stories within the broader history of the region. It looks at the position of the Kazakh over time in relation to Tsarist Russian, Soviet, Chinese and Mongolian rule and influence. These are stories of migration across generations, bride kidnappings and marriage, domestic violence and alcoholism, adoption and family, and how people have coped in the face of political and economic crisis, poverty and loss, and, perhaps most enduringly, how love and family persist through all of this. Telling the story of the author''s time living with a Kazakh family in a small village in western Mongolia, this book contextualizes the family’s personal stories within the broader history of the region. It looks at the position of the Kazakh over time in relation to Tsarist Russian, Soviet, Chinese and Mongolian rule and influence. These are stories of migration across generations, bride kidnappings and marriage, domestic violence and alcoholism, adoption and family, and how people have coped in the face of political and economic crisis, poverty and loss, and, perhaps most enduringly, how love and family persist through all of this. |
| Imprint Name: | Berghahn Books |
| Publisher Name: | Berghahn Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-01-13 |
