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A Magpie's Tale: Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives on the Kazakh of Western Mongolia

A Magpie's Tale: Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives on the Kazakh of Western Mongolia

Portisch, Anna Odland

Hardcover

Series: Lifeworlds: Knowledges, Politics, Histories, Book 1

AnthropologyGeneral SociologyImmigration & Refugees

ISBN10: 1800737963
ISBN13: 9781800737969
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: Jan 13 2023
Pages: 282
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

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.

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