Harnessing Fortune: Personhood, Memory and Place in Mongolia
Rebecca M. Empson
Abstract
Based on long-term fieldwork with herding families along the Mongolian-Russian border, this book examines how people tend to past memories in their homes while navigating new ways of accumulating wealth and fortune in the face of political and economic uncertainties. It is at this intersection, where the politics of tending to the past and the morality of new means of accumulating wealth come together to shape intimate social relations, that the book reveals an innovative area for the study of kinship in anthropology. It combines personal experience with ethnographic insight.
Keywords: herding families, Mongolian-Russian border, wealth, morality, social relations, kinship, anthropology, fieldwork, memories
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2011 | Print ISBN-13: 9780197264737 |
| Published to British Academy Scholarship Online: January 2013 | DOI:10.5871/bacad/9780197264737.001.0001 |
