Book
Cowboys and cultivators: the Chinese of Inner Mongolia
Westview Press, Inc. • Boulder • Published In 1993 • Pages:
By: Pasternak, Burton, Salaff, Janet W..
Abstract
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.
- Subjects
- Animal husbandry
- Pastoral activities
- Tillage
- Division of labor by gender
- Individual enterprise
- Cooperative organization
- Household
- Inter-ethnic relations
- culture
- Han Chinese
- Region
- Asia
- Sub Region
- East Asia
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Ian Skoggard; 2021
- Field Date
- 1988, 1990
- Coverage Date
- 1947-1990
- Coverage Place
- Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia, People's Republic of China; People's Republic of China
- Notes
- Burton Pasternak and Janet W. Salaff
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-272) and index
- LCCN
- 93222673
- LCSH
- Chinese--China--Inner Mongolia