Representing Power in Modern Inner Asia: Conventions, Alternatives and Oppositions (Studies on East Asia, 31)

357 pp., illustrations, bibliography, index. Contents: Preface / Peter B. Golden -- Representing power in modern Inner Asia : conventions, alternatives and opposition : introduction / Isabelle Charleux, Gregory Delaplace, Roberte Hamayon -- Major state rituals and the reinvention of tradition in contemporary Mongolia part I. Two aspects of the state cult in contemporary Mongolia : the sacrifice to the mountains and the cult of the standards / Sedenjav Dulam -- Major state rituals and the reinvention of tradition in contemporary Mongolia part II. Quelques pistes de reflexions à partir du texte de Sedenjav Dulam / Isabelle Bianquis -- 'Tengrism' in Kyrgyzstan : in search of new religious and political legitimacy / Aureie Biard and Marléne Laruelle -- Marshal Choibalsan's 'second funeral' / Gregory Delaplace -- President Sambuu's 1972 funeral : a living testimony / Françoise Aubin -- Enclosing for growth : including or excluding people from land in North-east Mongolia / Rebecca Empson -- The joint making of illusion and disillusion : Chinggis Khan on a Buryat calendar / Roberte N. Hamayon -- The ruler and the lama : political and religious relations in the Urad West Duke Banner in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Caroline Humphrey -- A power play among the Kyrgyz : state versus descent / Svetlana Jacquesson -- The virtual temple : the power of relics in Darhad Mongolian Buddhism / Morten Axel Pedersen -- How nomadic societies perceive temselves in Mongolia and Mali : a comparative perspective / Linda Gardelle -- Experiencing twentieth century architecture and urbanity in Mongolia : an analysis of Ulaanbaatar's buildings through state-owned images and personal narratives / Ai Maekawa -- State custom and governance, tor yos and tor within Mongol clans / Rodica Popp -- Reconstructing the memory of an Inner Mongolian national hero : the case of Injannashi and his family monastery / U Hurelbaatar and David Sneath. …