A Magpie’s Tale

Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives on the Kazakh of Western Mongolia

Anna Odland Portisch (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

282 Seiten

2023
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-796-9 (ISBN)

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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.

Anna Odland Portisch has taught at the School of Oriental and African Studies and Brunel University.

List of Illustrations

Notes on Transliteration

Family Tree

Map of Central and Inner Asia Today

Introduction

Part I: First Introductions

Chapter 1. Beginnings

Chapter 2. Relations

Chapter 3. Ölgii Town

Chapter 4. Drive to Soghakh

Chapter 5. First Days with the Family

Chapter 6. Two Horsemen

Chapter 7. Nighttime and Morning Rituals

Part II: Transitions

Chapter 8. The Young Accountant

Chapter 9. The Letter

Chapter 10. The First House in the First Street

Chapter 11. Thinking about the Past

Chapter 12. The Age of the Market

Chapter 13. Thick as Cream

Chapter 14. Saving Graces

Part III: Decisions

Chapter 15. Living Arrangements

Chapter 16. The People Who Move

Chapter 17. The Winter Slaughter

Chapter 18. Silver Flower

Chapter 19. French Extraordinaires

Chapter 20. Daughters-in-Law

Chapter 21. The Young Uncle

Part IV: Into the Past

Chapter 22. The Shaman’s Son

Chapter 23. The Closure of the Steppe

Chapter 24. The Mongols of the West

Chapter 25. New Year’s Eve

Chapter 26. Kazakhs and Western Mongols

Chapter 27. Night-time Walk

Chapter 28. Cossack Warriors and Settler Pioneers

Chapter 29. A People Frozen in Time

Chapter 30. Four Brothers

Part V: New Futures

Chapter 31. Across the Border

Chapter 32. A Scar Necklace

Chapter 33. A New Homeland

Chapter 34. Family Ties

Chapter 35. Kazakh Rebel Fighters of the Altai

Chapter 36. One Hundred Percent Kazakh

Chapter 37. The Red Terror

Chapter 38. Kurban Ait

Chapter 39. Mongolia’s Rich Cradle

Part VI: Broken Ties

Chapter 40. Stuck

Chapter 41.The Strong-Willed Girl

Chapter 42. Dimpled Bakhytbek

Chapter 43. A Short Break

Chapter 44. Broken Crown

Chapter 45. The Visitor

Chapter 46. Journey to Kazakhstan

Part VII: New Worlds, Old Ties

Chapter 47. Two Worlds

Chapter 48. Brave New World

Chapter 49. A First Wedding

Chapter 50. Elnara’s Journey

Chapter 51. An Autumn Wedding

Conclusion: A Magpie’s Tale

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	20.12.2022
Reihe/Serie	Lifeworlds: Knowledges, Politics, Histories
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-80073-796-3 / 1800737963
ISBN-13	978-1-80073-796-9 / 9781800737969
Zustand	Neuware