Book
Cowboys and cultivators: the Chinese of Inner Mongolia
Westview Press, Inc. • Boulder • Published In 1993 • Pages:
By: Pasternak, Burton, Salaff, Janet W..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This a study of adaptation and decollectivization in four rural communities in Inner Mongolia. Specifically, it is a study of how Han Chinese immigrants and Mongolian families similarly adopted and adapted their subsistence practices, mixing agriculture and pastoralism, to the local environment. The authors were interested in understanding to what extent custom, ecology, and subsistence shaped Chinese and Mongolian social organization and behavior. They found that despite the ethnic differences, there was a convergence in family lifeways and organization.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Animal husbandry
- Pastoral activities
- Tillage
- Division of labor by gender
- Individual enterprise
- Cooperative organization
- Household
- Inter-ethnic relations
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Han Chinese
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- East Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard; 2021
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1988, 1990
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1947-1990
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia, People's Republic of China; People's Republic of China
- NotesAdditional notes
- Burton Pasternak and Janet W. Salaff
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-272) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 93222673
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Chinese--China--Inner Mongolia